Somali pirates hijack yacht
The European Union’s anti-piracy mission said that on Nov,7 pirates had hijacked a yacht on the Indian Ocean, off the Seychelles and that one of its passengers had been taken in by a warship. Local...
Atlantic Organization for Security (AOS)
LCS: the “end” of the “never-ending story”?
Rather than selecting one team to build 10 ships, the Navy will instead award construction contracts to both Lockheed Martin and Austal USA. see recent articles from : 101106 Marinette Marine celebrates long wait...
Britain, France Defense Partnership (2)
this is a complement to the previous published news: according to Giovanni de Briganti Defense Aerospace the Anglo-French Defense Treaty Promises Much, Will Deliver Little For the third time in as many decades, France...
Suspected Pirate Boat Boarded And Destroyed
Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship Fort Victoria (A387), under the command of Captain Rob Dorey, boarded, cleared and destroyed a suspected pirate vessel. Fort Victoria is currently deployed as part of a special counter-piracy operation...
Raytheon buys cyber solutions provider
Raytheon Co. has acquired Trusted Computer Solutions, a Herndon, Va., provider of cross-domain, operating system and network security solutions. Financial terms were not reported. The acquisition of the private company is the seventh transaction...
Marinette Marine celebrates long wait for more Navy ships
It’s been years of work and waiting, but for Marinette Marine Corp. employees, a Navy decision this week to buy 20 littoral combat ships from two contractors is a welcome relief. Congressional approval for...
Congressional approval of Navy’s LCS plan is possible, says Jo Bonner
Congressional approval of a plan to buy littoral combat ships from Austal and Lockheed Martin will be “challenging but not impossible,” said U.S. Rep. Jo Bonner, R-Mobile. Getting Congress to approve the U.S. Navy’s plan...
Navy Wants Both Versions Of Littoral Ship Class
The Navy wants to put off a decision about which of two cutting-edge designs to choose for its latest vessel class, the littoral combat ship, slated to be stationed in San Diego. The first...
Navy asks Congress to buy both LCS designs
Rival teams from Lockheed Martin and Austal USA have been waiting all year to see which of their designs would be chosen for the Navy’s littoral combat ship competition. Now, if the Navy gets...
Cyber Command Achieves Full Operational Capability
see the Command Structure here: https://www.aofs.org/2010/05/21/us-cyber-command-is-operational/ – Department of Defense announced that U.S. Cyber Command has achieved full operational capability (FOC). Achieving FOC involved U.S. Cyber Command completing a number of critical tasks to ensure...
Britain, France Defense Partnership
Britain and France announced an unprecedented partnership on defense in a bid to allow two medium-sized powers to remain global players, officials and diplomats say. IT IS SAID that British Prime Minister David Cameron,...
Army E-mail will use the Microsoft ‘Cloud’, but Google is not happy
This contract to Microsoft originated a large debate about the method used for the assignement: see, the following articles by J. Nicholas Hoover, www.informationweek.com, Army Consolidates Email Under DISA Cloud Joe Gould, www.DefenseNews.com Army E-mail Headed...
About National Export Initiative and Export Control Reform
Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke continued the administration’s push to boost U.S. exports 100% by 2015 in accordance with President Obama’s 3/11/10 executive order establishing the National Export Initiative (“NEI”). Last week, Secretary Locke...
Inside Look at the New Littoral Combat Ship Plan
Littoral Combat Ship plan has changed once again. On September 16, 2009, the Navy announced a proposed new LCS acquisition strategy. Under the strategy, the Navy would hold a competition to pick a single...
Al-Qaida Bombs Too Sophisticated For X-Rays, Say Officials
Standard X-ray is not enough Senior counter-terrorism officials warned that al-Qaida has exposed a blind spot in international aviation security by successfully smuggling bombs onto commercial cargo planes bound for the US. One official...
DRS: $24 M for IT Support Services in Afghanistan
DRS Technical Services Inc., a DRS Defense Solutions business unit, has received a contract to perform information technology support services and provide network service personnel for U.S. forces located on Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan....
IAI: $9 M for ELM-2105 Radar Based Border Protection Systems
download the ELM-2105 brochure here – Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has been awarded a contract worth $9 million (USD) to provide a foreign customer with its ELM-2105 radar-based border protection system. The radar, which...
BAE Proposals for Brazilian Navy fleet renewal programme
BAE Systems has submitted a detailed proposal to the Brazilian Navy to supply a package of naval vessels to meet its ambitious fleet renewal programme through a full technology transfer agreement, with the ships...
Raytheon Appoints Daniel J. Crowley President of Network Centric Systems
Daniel J. Crowley Raytheon Company has appointed Daniel J. Crowley president of Raytheon Network Centric Systems (NCS), effective November 1, 2010. Crowley succeeds Colin J.R. Schottlaender, NCS president since August 2002, who will retire...
Net-centric consortium proves 66 percent cost, time reduction in integrating industry labs
During three transatlantic laboratory demonstrations conducted earlier this year, eight Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC) member companies validated their team’s ability to cut, by 66 percent, the time and cost of integrating their...