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Nato wants to bring all IT, own network digital security and missile defense operations together; Within two years between 50 to 100 NATO staff members will be housed in the property on the Waalsdorpervlakte...
3D printing is making inroads in defense and aerospace projects as it is proving useful to manufacture small, complex items. Still, it’s not always the most cost-effective option, especially at high volumes the following is a...
Approval has been given for the Army’s own pilots to begin live-flying the unarmed Watchkeeper from Boscombe Down in Wiltshire; up until now it has been only been trialled by industry. Gathering crucial information...
It should be read as a strategy-driven document Following Secretary Hagel’s February 24 preview, the Administration made its “full” Presidential Budget request on March 4, alongside the publication of a budget-driven quadrennial defense review....
US spending on cyber, both defensive and offensive, will continue to grow in the coming years, including in the fiscal 2015 budget, officials said. But while the money has poured in, there are still...
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...
The Italian Navy selected the CAMCOPTER® S-100 UAS (Unmanned Air System) to provide support for its fleet, making it the first European Navy that has S-100 in operational use. The CAMCOPTER® S-100 was the...
a mobile phone charger that converts vibrations into power for the phone. The so-called nanogenerator – created by engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Minnesota Duluth, and China’s Sun Yat-sen University...
The Board of Directors of Alenia Aermacchi, during today’s session held in Turin, has taken note of the resignation of Chairman Amedeo Caporaletti and appointed Giancarlo Grasso as the new Chairman. Chairman Giancarlo Grasso...
The Obama administration has put out a highly-anticipated cybersecurity framework aimed at pushing businesses to strengthen their digital networks against attacks. The voluntary guidance, established by the president via executive order and developed by...
The two Marine collaborate for the first time not only to combat maritime piracy and trafficking but also for the conduct of patrol, surveillance at sea and maritime defense of free trade in order...
Airbus intends to buy Salzburg München Bank, pending regulatory approval, to turn it into Airbus Group Bank and further the financing options they can offer. In the wake of the 2008 and Euro crises,...
The Obama administration has released a voluntary framework developed by hundreds of companies, several federal agencies and many international contributors as a how-to cybersecurity guide for organizations in the business of running the nation’s...
The SBIR program is designed in a three-phased award process. Phase I supports exploration of an idea or technology; phase II develops and evaluates its commercial potential; and phase III facilitates product commercialization. “We...
An attack that took place last April on a PG&E (PCG) electrical substation outside of San Jose, Calif., was originally called an act of vandalism in some news reports, although at least one local...
Recently-confirmed US defense acquisition Under Secretary Frank Kendall (pending Senate approval) discussed with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) the implications of DOD’s strategic guidance and what’s coming for FY13. He confirmed he...
Officially launched in 2010, the Better Buying Power (BBP) initiative is a broad effort for the defense acquisition community to reform itself from within. BBP encompasses a set of fundamental acquisition principles to achieve...
maximise synergies between its market-leading information systems security and critical information systems specialists and capabilities. With annual revenues of €500 million and close to 5,000 employees, the new Thales Business Line called Critical Information...
On 22nd January 2014, it was officially presented the Italian regulation on remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS). Following the introduction of RPAS in the “concept of aircraft” (see art.743 of the Italian Navigation Code),...
Bye Aerospace, Inc. and BoldIQ, Inc. concluded an extensive analysis that projects the long endurance Silent Guardian, a solar-electric hybrid unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV offers twice the mission productivity (effective time on station versus total sortie flight...
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