Atlantic Organization for Security (AOS)
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Ten Turkish companies participated in the Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] F-35 Industry Recognition Event during the IDEF tradeshow today. Turkish companies are major contributors to the current international production of the F-35 Lightning II...
New ISTAR (Intelligence, Surveillance and Target Acquisition) imagery ground control stations are to enter service with two Middle East armed forces in the next 12 months following the award of contacts worth over £2.5...
DRS Technologies, Inc., has been awarded a $15.5 million contract by the U.S. Army for an advanced targeting system. The cost-plus-fixed-fee, incrementally-funded contract by the U.S. Army Contracting Command, Aberdeen, MD is for the...
STMPAS consists of several optional ISR payloads attached under a small specially designed tethered blimp, called a Helikite, and a trailer Carrier that stores the Helikite and the required winch, sensors and helium tanks....
Smart-phone technologies, already familiar to many young soldiers who are once and future gamers, might be changing the face of warfare. Smart phones are a leap-ahead technology offering soldiers myriad of capabilities to satisfy...
International Cyber Defence Exercise Locked Shields two-day exercise aimed to test the defence skills of IT experts under real-life conditions and also practise working side-by-side with different nations. The exercise has come a long...
Known as JCR Logistics, the system created new efficiencies in product support, fielding operations, sustainment and more. In US-Army fiscal year 2012, the transition showed an immediate cost avoidance of almost $20 million and is...
Air Defence / ATC/ATM / ATM
SESAR takes a look at its work around military issues and outlines why civil-military interoperability is so important to the fundamental success of the programme. The article also focuses on existing barriers and what...
Involving more than 40 warships, 40 fixed-wing aircraft and 30 helicopters from the UK, the Netherlands, Canada, France, Denmark, Belgium, Norway, Poland, Sweden and Germany, over 12,000 personnel took part in Exercise Joint Warrior....
Ruggiero will succeed Erin Moseley, who became president of BAE Systems’ Support Solutions sector in February. In his new role, Ruggiero will assume responsibility of all government relations activities for the company, overseeing BAE...
NSA, Military Service Academy Experts Test Advanced Cyber Tactics and Technologies Lockheed Martin hosted emerging cyber leaders from U.S. and Canadian military service academies to test their capabilities against experts from the National Security...
The 2014 budget request from the Air Force includes funding for 19 additional F-35 fighter jets and cuts active-duty personnel by 1,900 airmen, according to an article in DoD Buzz. The Air Force is...
Solar cells are based on the photoelectric effect: a photon hits a silicon crystal and generates a negatively charged electron and a positively charged hole. Collecting those electron-hole pairs generates electric current. Conventional...
The Centre, to be based in Oxford Martin School at University of Oxford, will become a leading global resource for understanding how to achieve effective cyber security, and will work with the UK and...
One problem with satellites is that they’re either one-offs or part of a constellation of a single, costly design. Both can be expensive and neither lends itself to getting a specialized satellite into orbit...
Connecticut-based market research firm Forecast International recently issued study projects that request for military rotorcrafts growth will continue in 2013, forecasting production to reach 615 rotorcraft. Roughly 4,796 medium/heavy military rotorcraft, having an estimated...
US military leaders need to know when and how to respond to cyberattack, the Pentagon says, so the department is crafting secret rules that will guide cyberdefense and help the Pentagon navigate questions such...
The Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress of a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Korea for 60 F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Conventional Take Off and Landing (CTOL) aircraft and associated equipment,...
Acting U.S. Trade Representative Marantis Announces Obama Administration Accomplishments in 2012 in Reducing Trade Barriers On April 1, Acting United States Trade Representative Demetrios Marantis sent three reports to President Obama and to the...
Pope Francis has inspired admiration for his humble demeanor and friendly interactions with Catholics gathered to see him, but his personality is giving his security detail a headache. See also USA Today: Pope Francis...