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AOS Nov 2010 Brief

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Categories ACQUISITION – Air Defence – ATC/ATM – ATM – Border Control – Border Security – C4ISR – Contracts – Customs and Border Protection – Cybersecurity – Export Control – Homeland Security – piracy / antipiracy – Policy – sensor – site protection – training – VTS / VTM –

Companies / Organizations BAE SYSTEMS – BOEING – EADS GROUP – FINMECCANICA GROUP – GENERAL DYNAMICS – LOCKHEED MARTIN – MBDA – RAYTHEON – SAAB – THALES GROUP

DHS – EUROPEAN UNION – FR MOD – FRANCE – GERMANY – ITA MOD – NATO – TSA – TURKEY – UK – UK MOD – US COAST GUARD – US DOD – USA – BORDER SECURITY – CYBER SECURITY

Systems and Technologies

Cybersecurity

· Technical woes halt some iran nuclear machines
· Cyber war and cyber power. issues for NATO doctrine.
· Cyber defence will be the same for military and civil environment ?
· RAYTHEON buys cyber solutions provider
· CYBER COMMAND achieves full operational capability

Piracy / Antipiracy

· ROYAL MARINES destroy pirate vessel
· Indian Coast Guard intercept runaway ship
· Somali pirates hijack yacht
· Suspected pirate boat boarded and destroyed

BorderControl

Policy and Trends

· FINMECCANICA announces management changes at SELEX GALILEO
· NATO’s new strategic concept
· NATO’s defense budgets 2011
· US DOD “implementation directive for better buying power”
· UK MOD’s business plan published
· BRITAIN, FRANCE defense partnership
· BRITAIN, FRANCE defense partnership (2)
· RAYTHEON appoints new president of Network Centric Systems

Contracts

· SAAB systems for Indian coastal security
· GENERAL DYNAMICS Awarded MDA Contract
· Italy and Turkey commercial relations
· LCS dual-buy blessing from congress ?
· LCS: the “end” of the “never-ending story”?
· MARINETTE MARINE celebrates long wait for more navy ships
· Congressional approval of NAVY’s LCS plan is possible
· NAVY wants both versions of littoral ship class
· NAVY asks congress to buy both LCS designs
· ARMY e-mail will use the MICROSOFT ‘cloud’, but GOOGLE is not happy
· DRS: $24 M for it support services in Afghanistan
· IAI: $9 M for ELM-2105 radar based border protection systems
· Inside look at the new Littoral Combat Ship plan
· BAE SYSTEMS helps modernize National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency applications
· BAE proposals for BRAZILIAN NAVY fleet renewal programme

Export Control