Analysis of the US FY18 Defense Budget
DOWNLOAD REPORT HERE – The Fiscal Year 2018 defense budget cycle has been unusual in several ways. The budget request was submitted unusually late in the process, coming near the end of May, which...
Category: Documents
KPMG Report: the vital role of collaboration for defence capability
The word ‘collaboration’, much like ‘innovation’, has been bandied about with some regularity in defence industry circles of late but what does it really entail? “Collaboration may be the single most important skill needed in...
Defence expenditures of NATO countries
As usual NATO published the tables containing annual Financial and Economic Data Relating to NATO Defence. The document, today issued as a Press Release produced by the Public Diplomacy Division, continues the tradition of...
2014 Global Aerospace and Defense Industry outlook
The Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited Global Manufacturing Industry group has released this year’s Global Aerospace and Defense Industry outlook (click here to download), which shows that revenue growth in the 5 percent range is expected...
The Infrastructure Secutity Market will reach a Value of $32.55BN in 2022
The infrastructure security market has rapidly developed over the past decade, with the formation of a host of governmental and international organisations dedicated to homeland security (HLS) and critical infrastructure protection. The major threats...
RUSSIA´S Cyber Strategy Published
Russia’s Defense Ministry has published the concept of the armed forces within the information space that reflects Russia’s strategy in cyberwar. From Jan 2012 Russia has its own cyber-strategy. The document titled “Conceptual Views...
“Internet is a war domain”
The Pentagon released a long-promised cybersecurity plan Thursday that declares the Internet a domain of war. The plan notably does not spell out how the U.S. military would use the Web for offensive strikes,...
Top Five Reasons Weapons Programs Are Canceled
Forbes loves lists. The richest counties. The worst cars. The priciest colleges. In nearly a year of blogging for Forbes, though, I haven’t managed to produce a single list about national security, the topic...
Simone Bemporad of Finmeccanica NA: the importance of increasing the cooperation and involvement with allied countries
Simone Bemporad: “I think that we could benefit from the focus that the QDR poses on partnerships with allied countries. What I mean is that we will see more programs in which several countries...
GAO: Foreigners tap sensitive info
The risk that foreign nationals working for U.S. companies or universities could gain unauthorized access to technologies that have dual military and civilian use — “controlled technologies” — is a lingering concern for U.S....
Symantec Report about Stuxnet
The Stuxnet software worm repeatedly sought to infect five industrial facilities in Iran over a 10-month period, a new report says, in what could be a clue into how it might have infected the...
DOD Report Says Spying Focused on Naval Technology
The U.S. Department of Defense in a new report covering espionage for 2009 said that attempts by foreign spies to obtain classified or restricted U.S. technology increased and that foreign governments are focusing their...
U.S. Arms Sales: 2002-2009
to download: U.S. Arms Sales Agreements with and Deliveries to Major Clients, 2002-2009 Report 154160 Conventional Arms Transfers to Developing Nations, 2002-2009 Report 41403 – The Report 154160 provides background data on U.S. arms...
U.K. Launches Formal Consultation On Defense, Security Equipment
The U.K. government Dec. 20 launched a Green Paper marking the formal consultation on equipment, support, and technology for U.K. defence and security. The consultation, led by the Ministry of Defence and the Home...
Technical woes halt some Iran nuclear machines
Iran has been experiencing significant technical problems with equipment in its uranium enrichment drive and temporarily shut down some of its centrifuge machines, Western diplomats said on Tuesday. One senior diplomat said Iran acted...
Cyber war and cyber power. Issues for NATO doctrine.
For some time, terms prefixed with “cyber” have tended to become buzzwords in the international security debate. Cyberwar, cyber attacks and cyber threats were frequently mentioned in the discussions on NATO’s new Strategic Concept...
Boeing Offers New Surveillance Detection System
The system identifies when friendly forces are being monitored or targeted by cameras, binoculars, sniper scopes or other optical means The Boeing Company announced it has begun offering a Surveillance Detection System (SDS) capable...
NATO’s new Strategic Concept
Click here to download the full document – : The new NATO Strategic Concept reconfirms the commitment to defend one another against attack as the bedrock of Euro-Atlantic security and will serve as the Alliance’s...
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...
NATO’s Defense Budgets 2011
The Atlantic Council launched a survey of NATO’s defense budgets and the recently announced reductions across the Alliance. The data below reflects the savings being attained through reductions in personnel, operating budgets and procurements....