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India has cleared a $1.2 billion deal to buy 500 air-to-air missiles from European firm MBDA as it undergoes a major programme to modernise its military, defence ministry officials said Thursday. The cabinet committee...
GeoMux is one of the most advanced Electronic Protective Measure (EPM) VHF waveforms on the market. In addition to providing three high quality services simultaneously, voice, data and GPS position, GeoMux also includes a...
Raytheon Company has acquired privately held Henggeler Computer Consultants, Inc. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The transaction will not materially impact Raytheon’s total company sales or earnings per share for the fourth quarter...
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded Accenture Federal Services a 13-month, $71 million contract to further enhance the capabilities of its immigration and border management functions. The contract supports the United...
Raytheon Company has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Air Force to incorporate Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast (ADS-B) capability into its suite of APX-119 Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) transponders to support...
NATO’s Allied Command Transformation (ACT) today selected IBM for a strategic technology project to gain experience with emerging information technologies to improve data center efficiency and increase data sharing by its 28 member nations....
In the early days of the Libya war, U.S. commanders were adamant that they didn’t communicate with the Libyan rebels about what targets to bomb. As it turns out, they don’t need to. They’ve...
Finmeccanica, through its Finmeccanica Cyber Solutions team, and Northrop Grumman Corporation, announce today that they have signed a Teaming Agreement in order to respond to the proposal for the NATO Computer Incident Response Capability (NCIRC) –...
Raytheon Company has acquired Pikewerks Corporation, a privately held company, to further extend Raytheon’s capabilities to defend against sophisticated cybersecurity threats facing customers in the intelligence community, Department of Defense and commercial organizations. Terms...
Meeting in Brussels on 6/12/11, the 29 ministers of the ESA-EU Space Council underlined the importance of space systems for security. They drew attention to the role of satellite systems – particularly Galileo, EGNOS...
Lockheed Martin UK has officially opened its first Security Intelligence Centre (SIC) at Farnborough, extending its global reach and augmenting facilities in the United States. The Centre was opened today by Gerald Howarth MP,...
The Defence Ministry of the Russian Federation has contracted with the Dusseldorfbased Rheinmetall Group and its Russian partner JSCo Oboronservis to build a major army training centre in Mulino, Russia. Located in the Volga...
The Boeing Company and Northrop Grumman Corporation submitted their final proposal for future work on the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) element of the United States’ ballistic missile defense system. Following proposal submission, the companies...
The General Services Administration (GSA) has awarded ManTech International Corporation (NASDAQ:MANT) a task order under its Alliant Government-Wide Acquisition Contract vehicle to provide cyber defense support to the U.S. Air Force 90th Information Operations...
Indonesia – Regeneration and Upgrade of F-16C/D Block 25 Aircraft The Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress Nov. 16 of a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Indonesia for the regeneration and...
In a letter to President Obama, the President’s Export Council offered several recommendations for furthering the Export Control Reform Initiative. The PEC said all of these recommendations aim to achieve increased compliance by an informed...
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen rarely uses the term “transformation.” He prefers instead to discuss “smart defense,” an initiative Rasmussen launched at the Munich Security Conference last February. “[Smart defense] is not [about]...
China’s defense budget is one of the largest in the world, second only to the US. In addition, China has a rapidly expanding presence in the international arms export market. The Chinese defense budget...
US Navy Awards GD $87 M for Unmanned Underwater Mine Countermeasure Vehicle The U.S. Navy’s Naval Sea Systems Command has awarded General Dynamics Advanced Informational Systems a contract to design and build the Surface...
Winston Churchill’s : “Everywhere men pray for peace, but prepare for war.” Navy ships, Army ground-based radar and missile systems and Air Force, Navy and Coast Guard aircraft have descended on Key West, Fla.,...
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