EADS is keen to make “reasonable” acquisitions in the field of defense security and services in the U.S. over the next few years, Chief Executive Louis Gallois said over the weekend.
The U.S. has the largest defense budget in the world and EADS has been trying for years to win a bigger share of that market. [...]
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EADS is keen to make defense acquisitions in the U.S.
on 20. Jul, 2010 in Boeing, EADS Group, Policy, USA
EADS NA and Infoterra: 85M$ contract to supply radar satellite data for intelligence, military and homeland security
on 06. Apr, 2010 in Contracts, DHS, EADS Group, Homeland Security, US DoD
EADS North America has received a five-year contract to provide commercial radar satellite data to the U.S. government’s National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) for use in intelligence, military and homeland security applications.
The data will be provided by the geo-information service provider, Infoterra GmbH, an EADS Astrium subsidiary that holds the commercial exploitation rights for the German [...]
EADS Falls Into The Red – A380 Will Make Losses For At Least 2-3 Years
on 10. Mar, 2010 in EADS Group, company balance
European Aeronautic Defence & Space Co. NV said Tuesday it swung into the red in 2009 as problem contracts weighed on earnings, as expected, and it predicted that 2010 will be another difficult year even though visibility is improving. The company was weighed down by a EUR1.8 billion charge against cost overruns on its long-delayed [...]
MEADS : Army would like to kill the program, but Pentagon resists
on 09. Mar, 2010 in Air Defence, EADS Group, Finmeccanica Group, Italy, Raytheon, USA
Another battle is brewing at the Pentagon over a costly weapons program that many military leaders do not want but that so far has proven difficult to kill.
After several failed attempts, the Army is trying again to cancel a $19 billion missile defense system that the United States is developing in partnership with Italy and [...]
MEADS: Technology Adds New Dimension to Air Defence Radar
on 20. Mar, 2008 in Air Defence, EADS Group, Finmeccanica Group, Raytheon
The transmit / receive modules developed by EADS Defence & Security (DS) for the fire control radar of the MEADS air defence system (MEADS = Medium Extended Air Defence System) have now passed their acceptance tests and are being put into serial production. EADS DS is thus the first European company to mass produce the [...]