NATO’s new Strategic Concept
Click here to download a PDF version of the document. – The document lays out NATO’s vision for an evolving Alliance that will remain able to defend its members against modern threats and commits...
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Cyber Defence will be the same for Military and Civil environment ?
Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned that potential cyber attacks poses a “huge” future threat that should be tackled through joint efforts by military and civilian agencies. “There is a huge future threat and there...
Germany Considers Loosening Arms Export Controls
“Eurofighter,” “Leopard,” Submarine Class 214: Germany is the third largest weapons exporter in the world, despite restrictive guidelines. Now the federal government wants to make arms sales abroad even easier to make up for...
GD Awarded MDA Contract
General Dynamics Information Technology, a business unit of General Dynamics, is one of five awardees selected by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to provide systems engineering and testing services under the Missile Defense Agency...
DHS USCG and CBP Collaborative Effort Stop Maritime Smuggling Attempt
A collaborative effort between officers of the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents resulted in the arrest of 23 foreign nationals early yesterday morning off the San Diego coastline....
Experts Skeptical On Export Control Reform
Support for Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ export-control reform initiative is not robust within the cabinet agencies with authority over international weapons sales, according to a panel of experts on U.S. export policy. Suzanne Palmer,...
US DoD “Implementation Directive for Better Buying Power”
In early 2010, the Defense Department began a comprehensive effort to increase efficiencies, reduce overhead costs, and eliminate redundant functions in order to improve the effectiveness of the DoD enterprise. This effort is focused...
Somali pirates hijack yacht
The European Union’s anti-piracy mission said that on Nov,7 pirates had hijacked a yacht on the Indian Ocean, off the Seychelles and that one of its passengers had been taken in by a warship. Local...
Suspected Pirate Boat Boarded And Destroyed
Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship Fort Victoria (A387), under the command of Captain Rob Dorey, boarded, cleared and destroyed a suspected pirate vessel. Fort Victoria is currently deployed as part of a special counter-piracy operation...
Raytheon buys cyber solutions provider
Raytheon Co. has acquired Trusted Computer Solutions, a Herndon, Va., provider of cross-domain, operating system and network security solutions. Financial terms were not reported. The acquisition of the private company is the seventh transaction...
Marinette Marine celebrates long wait for more Navy ships
It’s been years of work and waiting, but for Marinette Marine Corp. employees, a Navy decision this week to buy 20 littoral combat ships from two contractors is a welcome relief. Congressional approval for...
Congressional approval of Navy’s LCS plan is possible, says Jo Bonner
Congressional approval of a plan to buy littoral combat ships from Austal and Lockheed Martin will be “challenging but not impossible,” said U.S. Rep. Jo Bonner, R-Mobile. Getting Congress to approve the U.S. Navy’s plan...
Navy Wants Both Versions Of Littoral Ship Class
The Navy wants to put off a decision about which of two cutting-edge designs to choose for its latest vessel class, the littoral combat ship, slated to be stationed in San Diego. The first...
Cyber Command Achieves Full Operational Capability
see the Command Structure here: https://www.aofs.org/2010/05/21/us-cyber-command-is-operational/ – Department of Defense announced that U.S. Cyber Command has achieved full operational capability (FOC). Achieving FOC involved U.S. Cyber Command completing a number of critical tasks to ensure...
Britain, France Defense Partnership
Britain and France announced an unprecedented partnership on defense in a bid to allow two medium-sized powers to remain global players, officials and diplomats say. IT IS SAID that British Prime Minister David Cameron,...
Army E-mail will use the Microsoft ‘Cloud’, but Google is not happy
This contract to Microsoft originated a large debate about the method used for the assignement: see, the following articles by J. Nicholas Hoover, www.informationweek.com, Army Consolidates Email Under DISA Cloud Joe Gould, www.DefenseNews.com Army E-mail Headed...
About National Export Initiative and Export Control Reform
Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke continued the administration’s push to boost U.S. exports 100% by 2015 in accordance with President Obama’s 3/11/10 executive order establishing the National Export Initiative (“NEI”). Last week, Secretary Locke...
Al-Qaida Bombs Too Sophisticated For X-Rays, Say Officials
Standard X-ray is not enough Senior counter-terrorism officials warned that al-Qaida has exposed a blind spot in international aviation security by successfully smuggling bombs onto commercial cargo planes bound for the US. One official...
DRS: $24 M for IT Support Services in Afghanistan
DRS Technical Services Inc., a DRS Defense Solutions business unit, has received a contract to perform information technology support services and provide network service personnel for U.S. forces located on Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan....
IAI: $9 M for ELM-2105 Radar Based Border Protection Systems
download the ELM-2105 brochure here – Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has been awarded a contract worth $9 million (USD) to provide a foreign customer with its ELM-2105 radar-based border protection system. The radar, which...