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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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...
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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...
At the 117th Annual IACP (International Association of Chiefs of Police) Expo, ELSAG North America (www.elsag.com Finmeccanica Group) introduced two new crime-fighting and officer safety systems: the All-In-One (AIO) Fixed Plate Hunter-900 automatic license plate recognition...
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Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) delivered it’s first multi function surveillance and threat alert radar (MF- STAR) to a foreign customer. The MF- STAR is an advanced all-weather, day/night radar capable of performing various missions...
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Northrop Grumman Corporation announced the introduction of a new family of X-Band Coherent Radar (XBCR) systems designed primarily for offshore patrol vessels (OPV) and other smaller combat ship platforms. The SeaGuard XBCR systems are...
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CYBELS (CYBer Expertise for Leading Security) is a comprehensive, modular and open-ended solution dedicated to active cyberdefence. Designed to protect critical information systems against cyber threats by anticipating, preventing and rapidly responding to attacks,...
Scientists at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Va., are asking industry to develop a miniature, power-efficient inertial navigation and guidance device that combines precision timing and inertial measurement on...
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Lockheed Martin has developed a ruggedized tablet computer for use in tactical vehicles. The TacFleet 8 allows real-world tactical situational awareness exchanges for brigade-and-below forces on the move. “The TacFleet 8 design incorporates innovative...
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China in the past year demonstrated it can direct Internet traffic, giving the nation the capability to exploit “hijacked” data from the U.S. military and other sources, according to a new report. Recent actions...
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The Navy completed Phase III end-to-end testing of the littoral combat ship (LCS) mine countermeasure mission package off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Oct. 2, fully assessing unmanned vehicle operations and verifying vehicle...
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Ryanair’s chief executive is already planning single-pilot operation on short-haul flights. Military UAV can fly for hours, and conclude their complex mission with a mixture of remote controlled and automatic flight management. Let’s be...
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Download the light-version of the document HERE. – On September 29, in Brussels, the Security and Defence Agenda hosted a roundtable debate bringing together key voices on border security from both sides of the...
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The U.S. Air Force has approved Lockheed Martin’s [NYSE: LMT] preliminary design for its next-generation mobile, long-range surveillance and ballistic missile defense radar. The Three-Dimensional Expeditionary Long-Range Radar (3DELRR) will serve as the principal...
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The radar system, which is being provided by marine technology supplier Transas Marine, will cover almost 2,000 kilometres (1,240 miles) of the country’s coastline, from Tunisia to Egypt. It is expected to be installed...
The Navy’s close-lipped effort to pick a winning design for the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program is generating more rumors than Lindsay Lohan’s love-life. Maybe it’s the approaching mid-term elections or maybe it’s the...
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