Category: ISR

Presidential Helo Competition Complicated

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...

UK MoD: $53 M to ITT for Night Vision Goggles

Technology enables huge improvements to the infantryman’s capability: read also Colonel Alec Bain’s article for RUSI here ITT Corporation has received a $53 million order from the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (MoD) for...

Integrated Ground Based Air Defense Systems

Integrated Ground Based Air Defense Systems

Terma’s Ground Based Air Defense System is designed to meet the air threats of today and tomorrow. It offers an open and flexible system architecture that allows for modular integration of new and legacy...

EDA Study on Integration of UAS Into General Air Traffic

EDA Study on Integration of UAS Into General Air Traffic

Thales announced that it has reached the end of a decisive year-long European technical design study, called SIGAT – (Study on military frequency spectrum allocations for the Insertion into General Air Traffic of UAS)....

Interoperability is the Key to Success in Missile Defense

Interoperability is the Key to Success in Missile Defense

Terma and Lockheed Martin have jointly developed a Ballistic Missile Defense C4I system called BMD-Flex. The system is based on Terma’s T-Core C4I framework, fielded in several European Army, Navy, and Air Force systems....

SCANTER Ground Surveillance Radar: Reliable operations in difficult environments

Terma has developed a new SCANTER Ground Surveillance Radar (GSR) which is specifically designed to operate reliably in difficult environments, e.g. desert locations with high ambient temperatures. The radar operates reliably in rain, salt...

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...

NATO AGS – Northrop Grumman Submits Proposal

Transatlantic cooperation is NATO’s top acquisition program of record   Northrop Grumman Corporation formally submitted to NAGSMA its proposal or the NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) system – NATO’s top and long-running acquisition program....

Program Executive Office (PEO) Soldier: $140 M to DRS for Thermal Sights

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...

“Italy was right decision” interview to Mark S. Newman, DRS CEO

“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...

Intelligence and Operations Coordination Center of U.S. Customs and Border Protection

Intelligence and Operations Coordination Center of U.S. Customs and Border Protection

U.S. Customs and Border Protection opened a new facility to help enhance information sharing across the nearly 60,000-person organization. The new Intelligence and Operations Coordination Center will serve as the “one-stop-shop” for operations coordination...

Finmeccanica: 130M$ contracts for security

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...

DRS Technical Services: 77 M$ for C2 Technical Assistance to United States Forces-Iraq

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...

Alenia Aeronautica delivers second ATR-42MP airplane to the NAF

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...

Airport security should be “unpredictable”

Airport security should be “unpredictable”

MPs say that business travellers should not know what to expect when they pass through airports in order to beat terrorism The current confusion over what business travellers should expect when they go through...

Telephonics: Advanced ATM Automation System

Telephonics: Advanced ATM Automation System

Telephonics Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Griffon Corporation, and a leader in providing advanced air traffic management solutions, announced today the launch of its newest and most advanced Air Traffic Management (ATM) automation...

Updating air traffic system top aim of Senate bill

Updating air traffic system top aim of Senate bill

Replacing World War II-era radar with 21st century GPS technology and implementing several new airline safety rules would be required under a $34.5 billion bill approved on March,22 by the Senate. The measure funding...

Information Sharing: The new intelligence capability

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...