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Finmeccanica Chief Executive Officer and General Manager Mauro Moretti presents an overview of the “New Finmeccanica” and Group Priorities. Finmeccanica CFO Giampiero Cutillo details the 2014 Half Year Results in details (from minute 21)...
Rockwell Collins Satellite Communications Systems Inc. has been acquired by an Atlanta based private investor group and renamed DataPath Inc, reviving a brand long known for quality and innovation in remote field communications. The...
Air Systems / Contracts / UAV
AgustaWestland completed a demonstration of its Rotorcraft Unmanned Aerial System / Optionally Piloted Helicopter (RUAS/OPH) to the Italian Ministry of Defence. The trials were conducted to evaluate modern remote controlled rotorcraft technology and its...
Beechcraft Corporation, a subsidiary of Textron Aviation Inc., a Textron Inc. company, has launched a new demonstrator dedicated to showcasing the Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities of its Baron G58 piston-engine aircraft. video...
ISR / MSA / new technologies
The current plans for the lifetime extension through 2018 of Sentinel capability will see a number of key investments to both maintain current capability and the delivery of potential improvements to support a broader...
audio here Huge commercial potential of UAVs has already prompted many entrepreneurs to start using them in their businesses. Drones are already in great demand among filmmakers who seek impressive camera shots....
The aircraft flew from an air base in the Mediterranean and across several European countries, including the UK, as part of a NATO trial known as Unified Vision 2014. The flights aim to assist...
Lockheed Martin received from the prime, Huntington Ingalls Industries, a $69 million contract to support the United States Coast Guard’s efforts to enforce maritime sovereignty and address at-sea threats. Huntington Ingalls Industries builds the NSC hulls...
The U.S. Air Force has introduced into its B-52 fleet the first aircraft upgraded with an advanced communications system, developed by Boeing [NYSE: BA], that keeps the bomber ahead of emergent threats while improving...
The autonomous vehicle is designed to carry supplies into hostile environments – and evacuate injured soldiers from the battlefield. In this first test, the vehicle hovered 10 feet off the ground for a couple...
Airbus Defence and Space and Sapura Secured Technologies have signed a Collaboration Agreement to establish a long-term cooperation in the field of C4ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance). It includes the...
Elbit Systems Ltd. announced that it was awarded a contract in the Latin American region, in an amount of approximately$100 million, for the supply of a Homeland Security (HLS) solution. Under the contract, to be performed...
With this new collaboration, Thales will facilitate Global Komited in further incorporating a more comprehensive range of allied defence systems, such as a Command and Control radar system to support and protect all important...
The U.S. Air Force’s “BATMAN” research team at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio is beta-testing Google Glass for possible use on the battlefield with an advanced technology demonstration and research program commissioned...
When the Catholic Church canonizes Popes John XXIII and John Paul II later this month, the Police forces of the Municipality of Rome will benefit from secure digital communications thanks to Selex ES’s TETRA...
BAE Systems developed a new mobile app that can be used with Google Glass ™ for hands-free geospatial intelligence data collection and photo reporting from anywhere in the field. The GXP Xplorer ® Snap...
Presagis has released a report that talks about how the top five trends – from advances in artificial intelligence (AI) to new types of training scenarios – are shaping the simulated training environments now,...
NASA has signed agreements with the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) to conduct a series of joint flight tests to study the atmospheric effects of emissions from...
A new cell focusing on the military implementation of SESAR – the European air traffic control modernisation programme – has been established within the EDA. The Single European Sky (SES) aims at realising the...
The U.S. Navy has successfully demonstrated the Autonomous Aerial Cargo and Utility System (AACUS), which allows current, full-size helicopters to be remotely controlled by a tablet device. Rear Adm. Matthew Klunder, USN, chief of naval...
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