Category: MSA

UK Defence Committee: Millions On Unproductive Procurement,

UK Defence Committee: Millions On Unproductive Procurement,

The MoD is spending hundreds of millions of pounds a year on unproductive activities because it has commissioned more work than it can afford to pay for, says the Defence Select Committee in its...

Northrop Considers Bid for U.S. Navy’s LCS

Northrop Considers Bid for U.S. Navy’s LCS

Northrop Grumman is examining both competing Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) designs with an eye to possibly bidding as a second-source shipyard to build the small, fast warships for the U.S. Navy, the company’s top...

Finmeccanica Looks for Partner in White House Helicopter Bid

Finmeccanica Looks for Partner in White House Helicopter Bid

Finmeccanica SpA, Italy’s biggest defense contractor, said it is looking for a partner as the U.S. Defense Department restarts the process of replacing the ageing fleet of presidential helicopters. The group will respond with...

Capitol Police upped security after shooting at Pentagon Metro

Capitol Police upped security after shooting at Pentagon Metro

Capitol Police on Friday continued to maintain stringent security levels on Capitol Hill after a lone gunman shot and wounded three officers outside of the Pentagon on Thursday. Officers with the Pentagon Force Protection...

NGC Team Awarded CANES Development Contract

NGC Team Awarded CANES Development Contract

The U.S. Navy has selected Northrop Grumman Corporation for the development phase of the U.S. Navy’s Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) program. CANES will streamline and update shipboard network systems to improve...

EADS North America Delivers 100th UH-72A Lakota Light Utility Helicopter to the U.S. Army

EADS North America Delivers 100th UH-72A Lakota Light Utility Helicopter to the U.S. Army

EADS North America delivered its 100th UH-72A Lakota Light Utility Helicopter to the U.S. Army today, marking another on-time and on-budget achievement for a highly successful program that supports America’s warfighters and contributes to...

Fimeccanica / Guarguaglini: 2009 results exceed expectations

Fimeccanica / Guarguaglini: 2009 results exceed expectations

Data even more positive when compared to world stage * orders over 22 billion euros in both 2010 and 2011 * recovery in civil helicopter market by 2012 * Ansaldo Energia fate within next two...

Police partner with license plate readers

Police partner with license plate readers

A growing number of police departments are turning to mobile camera systems to fight motor vehicle theft and identify unregistered cars. The cameras read license plates of parked and moving cars — hundreds per...

U.S. Puts Hold on Export Licenses for BAE: State Dept.

U.S. Puts Hold on Export Licenses for BAE: State Dept.

The U.S. State Department has placed a “temporary administrative hold” on weapons export licenses sought by BAE Systems or companies using BAE Systems’ products, a State Department official said. BAE officials, however, said there...

Pirates Hit Spanish Fishing Ship With RPG

Pirates Hit Spanish Fishing Ship With RPG

Somali pirates hit a Spanish fishing boat off the coast of Kenya with a rocket-propelled grenade Thursday as private security on board returned fire at the would-be hijackers.  The successful defense of the fishing...

Coast Guard takes control from Deepwater’s integrators

Coast Guard takes control from Deepwater’s integrators

The Coast Guard has taken full control of developing a new flagship vessel from an embattled industry team and is determined to stay on schedule and keep costs from skyrocketing, a senior Homeland Security...

German Weather Service Selects Selex Systems Integration and Lockheed Martin for Wind Shear Detection at Frankfurt and Munich Airports

German Weather Service Selects Selex Systems Integration and Lockheed Martin for Wind Shear Detection at Frankfurt and Munich Airports

The German Weather Service (DWD) has signed a contract with Selex Systems Integration GmbH to deliver a Low Level Wind Shear Alert System (LLWAS) for the Frankfurt and Munich, Germany airports. The systems consist...

SBINET in danger? No finish in sight for ‘virtual’ border fence

SBINET in danger? No finish in sight for ‘virtual’ border fence

A multibillion-dollar “virtual fence” along the southwestern border promised for completion in 2009 to protect the U.S. from terrorists, violent drug smugglers and a flood of illegal immigrants is a long way from becoming...

Pentagon Panel Has Contractor Contacts: Analysis finds financial ties

Pentagon Panel Has Contractor Contacts: Analysis finds financial ties

More than half of the panel members appointed to review the Pentagon’s latest four-year strategy blueprint have financial ties to defense contractors with a stake in the planning process, a USA TODAY analysis shows....

Naval Surface Warfare Center: 37 M$ to SAIC

Naval Surface Warfare Center: 37 M$ to SAIC

Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) today announced it has been awarded a task order by the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) – Crane Division to provide technical and training support to the U.S. Navy Surface...

Airport scanners still in storage

Airport scanners still in storage

President Barack Obama’s 2009 stimulus plan included $25 million for airport screening machines capable of detecting explosives like those carried by the Christmas Day bomber. But more than a year after passage of the...

EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND CRISIS MANAGEMENT: THE FIVE LESSONS

EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND CRISIS MANAGEMENT: THE FIVE LESSONS

“Emergency Preparedness and Crisis Management” is part of a series of Workshops titled “Share Best Practices across the Atlantic” organized by SELEX SI. The 3rd Workshop guest speaker, the Hon Michael Chertoff, former Secretary...

NATO Contract to SELEX Sistemi Integrati

NATO Contract to SELEX Sistemi Integrati

SELEX Sistemi Integrati has received a Contract of 15 M€ for the integration of about 230 Sensors on new implemented Air Command and Control (ACCS) Sites, hosted by eleven NATO Nations: Netherlands, Spain, Turkey,...

Thales caught in all too familiar French political trap

Thales caught in all too familiar French political trap

The EADS story is all too familiar. For years, the European aerospace and defence group has been hamstrung by its French and German political masters. But these days it seems that the French government...

Equatorial Guinea Maritime Security: 250 M$ potential value to L-3 Communications

Equatorial Guinea Maritime Security: 250 M$ potential value to L-3 Communications

L-3 Communications announced that its MPRI division has been awarded a $58 million firm-fixed-price task order with the government of Equatorial Guinea to establish a Maritime Security Enhancement Program (MSEP). This task order is the...