DRS Technologies, Inc. announces the award of a Phase II contract for On-Board Vehicle Power for fifteen Hybrid Electric High Mobility Multi-Purpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWVs). Gary Smith, vice president and general manager of DRS Test and Energy Management: “DRS listened to the evolving requirements of the Marine Corps and military customers and responded with an [...]
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Finmeccanica Will Guarantee Security in Panama
Finmeccanica has been awarded contracts worth approximately EUR 180 million from Ministerio delle Seguridad Publica of Panama. Under the agreement, Finmeccanica companies will develop a national security and surveillance system involving the implementation of a coastal monitoring and control system by SELEX Sistemi Integrati and the supply of six AgustaWestland AW139 helicopters in various configurations [...]
ARMOR™: DRS Tactical Systems Rugged Tablet Computer
DRS Tactical Systems, a subsidiary of DRS Technologies (Finmeccanica Group) has unveiled its newest ARMOR™ rugged tablet computer, the ARMOR™ X10gx. This all-new 10.4″ rugged tablet enhances the efficiency and productivity of an increasingly mobile workforce and is planned to ship by September 15, 2010. “The ARMOR™ X10gx is our tenth generation offering. We have drawn upon [...]
Turkish minister reveals purchase of 27 attack helicopters
Today’s Zaman (Turkey) Defense Minister Vecdi Gönül has said that, in addition to an earlier decision to buy nine Italian AgustaWestland-made A129 attack helicopters, Turkey has also decided to lease nine A129s to meet the urgent needs of the Turkish military. A Turkish request for the purchase of nine US-made Bell AH-1W Super Cobra helicopters [...]
Finmeccanica update: Board of directors designates senior managers of group companies
Finmeccanica SpA’s board of directors has approved the designation of the following senior managers at its subsidiaries: • Giuseppe Giordo, currently Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Alenia North America and Deputy General Manager of Alenia Aeronautica, has been designated Chief Executive Officer of Alenia Aeronautica. • Giovanni Bertolone, currently Chief Executive Officer of Alenia [...]
SWIM SUIT prototype delivered
SWIM-SUIT, which has a value of 12 million Euros, relied on a contribution of about 50% from the European Commission. The project, born within the 6 Framework programme of the European Union, represents one of the SESAR programme technological pillars for the realisation of a Single European Sky. After a three year study, SELEX Sistemi [...]
New Marine One (Boeing 101) will be too late for Obama
Since President Dwight Eisenhower started using them in the mid-1950s, helicopters have become a routine part of presidential life and the sight of the large green-and-white craft lifting off from the South Lawn of the White House a regular occurrence. Piloted by Marines, the chopper bearing the president goes by the call sign Marine One. [...]
Gregory S. Martin appointed to Alenia North America’s Board of Directors
“We look forward to General Martin joining Alenia North America’s Board of Directors”, said ADM Gregory Johnson, USN (Ret.), Chairman, Board of Directors, Alenia North America, Inc. “General Martin’s experience as commander of AFMC, as the Principal Deputy to the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, and his numerous other leadership positions have [...]
EU SeaBILLA (Sea Border Surveillance) program unveiled
SELEX Sistemi Integrati, a Finmeccanica company, has launched the European research and development project SeaBILLA (Sea Border Surveillance). SeaBILLA, proposed to the European Union as a research and development project on maritime and boarders surveillance, has recently obtained a funding of about 15,5 million Euros within the 7° Framework Programme “Security Research Call2”. The Finmeccanica [...]
Presidential Helo Competition Complicated
see also: June, 15 Boeing & AgustaWestland Agreement June, 7 Presidential Helicopter Neverending Story May, 5 AgustaWestland Will Bid on New Marine One April 19, Sikorsky, Lockheed team to bid for US presidential helicopter The myriad industrial relationships broken and reforged for the newly relaunched U.S. presidential helicopter competition seem to represent a larger trend in defense [...]
IT MOD launch Army Digitalization
Funding for Forza NEC (Network Enabled Capability), the Italian Army’s digitization programme, has recently been confirmed by Undersecretary for Defence, Guido Crosetto: Forza NEC is a spiral project, envisaging the realisation of three digitalised medium-sized brigades by 2015, which will be consistent with the plan to deliver and integrate Land Forces by 2025. The aim [...]
Program Executive Office (PEO) Soldier: $140 M to DRS for Thermal Sights
content US PEO Soldier Initiative Program Executive Officer (PEO) Soldier Rapid Fielding Initiative (RFI) DRS Receives $140 M for Thermal Sights About the Technology Terry Murphy quote 1. US PEO Soldier Initiative PEO Soldier’s vision is to be the center of excellence for delivering Soldier warfighting capability to dominate the battlefield across the full [...]
Boeing & AgustaWestland Agreement
Boeing Secures All Rights to AgustaWestland AW101 for US Navy VXX Presidential Helicopter Program Boeing announced that it will secure a license from AgustaWestland for U.S. production of the AW101 medium-lift helicopter as an entry into the U.S. Navy VXX Presidential Helicopter Program. This license will give Boeing full intellectual property, data and production [...]
DRS and Boeing to Sign Teaming Agreement for NewGen Tanker
DRS announced the teaming agreement for the NewGen Tanker program with The Boeing Company. DRS will collaborate with Boeing on the console design and then manufacture the Aerial Refueling Operator Station, also known as AROS contingent upon Boeing receiving the contract from the United States Air Force. In addition, DRS will provide the interconnect design [...]
Presidential Helicopter Neverending Story
Presidential helicopters stand as a talisman, embodying the nuclear mission of the armed forces, America’s technological prowess and our government’s nearly religious concern for presidential safety. Buying a foreign helicopter would seem downright unpatriotic to many Americans. But the government decided to buy just such a helicopter last time, the ill-fated VH-71. True, Lockheed Martin [...]
DRS: 10 M$ for 71 MSTAR Man Portable Radars
DRS Sustainment Systems will deliver the Marine Corps 71 man portable surveillance target and acquisition radars (MSTAR), under a $9.7 million awarded by the U.S. Navy. The MSTAR is a component of the Ground-Based Operational Surveillance System (GBOSS). The MSTAR locates moving targets and uniquely classifies them as personnel on foot, tracked vehicles, or wheeled [...]
Finmeccanica reorganises some activities in the Defence Electronics & Security and Space sectors
LATEST NEWS People and activities In line with its programme to optimise its industrial structures in the Defence Electronics & Security and Space sectors, previously announced at the shareholders’ meeting, Finmeccanica will launch a rationalisation process intended to improve the business organisation and industrial performance of the companies involved. In particular, the organisational rationalisation will [...]
AgustaWestland Will Bid on New Marine One
AgustaWestland (AW) told that the company is still in the hunt for the U.S. VXX Presidential helicopter replacement program, commonly known as Marine One. Pier Francesco Guarguaglini, the chairman and CEO of AW parent company Finmeccanica, suggested that AW could partner with Boeing and L-3 for the contract. The original program was canceled last year [...]
DRS Defense Technical Services: 100 M$ for U.S. Customs and Border Protection License Plate Readers.
DRS Technical Services Inc., a DRS Defense Solutions company, announced today that its Maritime & Security Solutions business unit was awarded a fixed price, indefinite- delivery indefinite-quantity contract worth up to $100 million to enhance and expand the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency’s license plate reader (LPR) program. DRS will work closely with [...]
Finmeccanica warms to UK alliances
The head of Italy’s largest defence group says his country should co-operate with the UK on a new generation of unmanned aircraft, helicopters and warships. Pier Francesco Guarguaglini, chief executive and chairman of Finmeccanica, argues the two countries are the best fit in Europe given their similar foreign policies and common defence equipment programmes. “All [...]
SSI: KRONOS Radars will equip Peruvian “Aguirre” class frigates
SELEX Sistemi Integrati, a Finmeccanica company, has been awarded a contract with the Military Navy of Peru to supply two multifunctional surveillance radars KRONOS NV to be installed on board of the “Aguirre” class frigates (former-Lupo), once belonging to the Italian Navy. The system refers to a multifunctional radar, KRONOS NV, which can interface a [...]
DRS system for Gerald R. Ford Aircraft Carrier
DRS Consolidated Controls Inc., a DRS Defense Solutions LLC business unitn a Finmeccanica Company, announced that it has been awarded a contract by Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding to design, qualify and manufacture the Gate Valve Actuator Controllers (GVAC) for the Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78). These controllers will operate gate valves used in the United States Navy’s [...]
Sikorsky, Lockheed team to bid for US presidential helicopter
Lockheed sees possible US Navy award in 2011 or 2012 Lockheed still negotiating termination of VH-71 (AgustaWestland/Finmeccanica) with Navy Former rivals Sikorsky Aircraft and Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT.N) said they would join forces in a follow-on U.S. Navy presidential helicopter competition even as Lockheed continued to negotiate a settlement over termination of the previous program. Under [...]
“Italy was right decision” interview to Mark S. Newman, DRS CEO
The marriage between Finmeccanica and DRS Technologies, the U.S. military electronics company bought in 2008 for 3.7 billion euros’ is successful, although there is still much to do. Moreover Rome was not built in a day, “says the CEO of DRS, Mark S. Newman, who, after having sold his block of shares to Finmeccanica, making [...]
Finmeccanica: 130M$ contracts for security
Finmeccanica has won contracts with a total value of approximately 13 M$ million through its companies DRS, SELEX Sistemi Integrati and Elsag Datamat. Specifically, DRS Technical Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Finmeccanica Group company DRS Technologies, was awarded a $77 million contract to provide technical assistance to the United States Army and allies as [...]
DRS Technical Services: 77 M$ for C2 Technical Assistance to United States Forces-Iraq
DRS Technical Services, Inc., Finmeccanica Group, announced that its Tactical Services & Network Solutions business unit was awarded a contract for approximately $77 million to provide technical assistance to the United States Army and allies as they withdraw from the country of Iraq. Under terms of the award, DRS will continue to support the transition [...]
Alenia Aeronautica delivers second ATR-42MP airplane to the NAF
The delivery ceremony was held at Alenia Aeronautica’s Training Centre at Turin-Caselle and was attended by Air Vice Marshal DS Dillimono (Chief Operation Officer) and Wing Commander AT Marquis (Programme Manager ATR-42MP NAF) who signed the acceptance of the aircraft in the presence of Alenia Aeronautica’s Managers. Having completed the final acceptance phases with the [...]
Information Sharing: The new intelligence capability
Steve Coles, Head of Security Strategy at SELEX SI/VEGA, revisits the importance of information sharing for the UK in light of the failed Christmas Day airline bomb plot. According to President Obama, it was an information sharing and analysis breakdown that nearly allowed a terrorist to kill 290 people on 25 December 2009, in what [...]
Aircrafts and Helicopters: Finmeccanica Seeks To Make U.S. Home Market
Finmeccanica is looking to further increase its business activity in the U.S., capitalizing on its acquisition of DRS Technologies.The company has long eyed the U.S. and, through a growing industrial footprint, has tried to make it a “home market” in addition to Italy and the U.K. A round of upcoming helicopter competitions will prove a [...]
Italian navy to deploy AW101s to Afghanistan
Italy will deploy three of its AgustaWestland AW101 amphibious support helicopters to Afghanistan in October for a 12-month tour of duty. The “Task Group Shark” detachment will involve aircraft from the navy’s 1st Helicopter Squadron at Luni, plus 55 personnel and an aeromedical evacuation team, assigned to the International Security Assistance Force’s Regional Command West [...]