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U.S. Air Force information technology (IT) experts are awarding military IT contracts worth a potential $6.9 billion to nine computer companies to provide computer networking and data-processing equipment for network-centric warfare operations worldwide. The...
Cobham has been awarded a number of orders, totalling over £13M in the first quarter of 2012, to supply Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR) and support solutions for a number of NATO customers. The orders will...
The UK’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft took its inaugural flight last week at Lockheed Martin’s Fort Worth facility. During the 45 minute sortie, test pilot Bill Gigliotti put the short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL)...
The US and China have been discreetly engaging in “war games” amid rising anger in Washington over the scale and audacity of Beijing-co-ordinated cyber attacks on western governments and big business, the Guardian has...
Contracts / MSA / msa / US Coast Guard
The U.S. Coast Guard has exercised a $78.5 million contract option to purchase the service’s 16th and 17th HC-144A Ocean Sentry Maritime Patrol Aircraft from prime contractor EADS North America. The HC-144A is based...
Many U.S. Military systems, such as missiles, rely on the Global Positioning System (GPS) to provide accurate position, orientation and time information while in flight. When GPS is inaccessible, whether as a result of...
Raytheon Company’s Space Fence recently completed a comprehensive Preliminary Design Review (PDR) demonstrating the S-band radar’s technical maturity in its ability to detect and track the increasing amount of space debris orbiting the Earth....
The Netherlands will buy fewer than the 85 Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jets it had planned to acquire because costs have risen and the country needs to replace fewer F-16 fighters,...
The Lockheed Martin F-35 program made unwanted headlines in the U.K. last month after The Sunday Times revealed that BAE Systems’ portion of the project had been subject to significant data theft. Sources told...
Contracts / Land Systems / sensor / US DoD
SCORPION II is the next generation of persistent autonomous surveillance systems for force protection and intelligence gathering. The U.S. Army has awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation a contract to provide SCORPION and SCORPION II Unattended...
For European guided weapons manufacturer MBDA, 2011 was a special year. The December celebration marking its first decade of operations came after several of its products had been used to great effect during the...
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...
The study is intended to be a detailed follow up and expansion upon a 2009 assessment prepared by Northrop Grumman for the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission of China’s evolving computer network operations...
The manufacturer of the British border and perimeter-security radar system known as Blighter is working together with a South Korean company to supply Blighter radar systems for applications in South Korea. Plextek Ltd. in...
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) are adopting new solutions for landing and take off of Unmanned Aerial System (UAS), implemented in the Panther UAS. Optimization of prop-rotor design for V/STOL electrically powered UAS is another of the...
DRS Technologies, Inc. a Finmeccanica Company will launch the ScorpionTM family of rugged handheld computers at the AUSA ILW Winter Symposium and Exposition in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. DRS Tactical Systems, Inc. developed the ScorpionTM...
The Boeing Co. is developing a mobile phone based on the Android operating system that will compete with other manufacturers offering highly secure communication devices, company officials said April 10. Roger Krone, president of...
Any cyber security bill that becomes law must authorize information sharing amongst industry and the government and give companies, or a third party, the right to monitor their networks, according to Northrop Grumman CEO...
Aircraft Based on the Same Airframe as U.S. Coast Guard’s HC-144A Ocean Sentry EADS North America has delivered the second of four Airbus Military CN235-300 Maritime Patrol Aircraft (MPA) to be supplied to the...
During recent testing in real conditions, Thales and Rockwell Collins FlexNet Software Defined Radios (SDRs) have achieved a 2 megabits per second data rate at a range of 35 kilometres. The data rate is...
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