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Global insurance broker Aon, and RHEA Group announce a partnership to support companies on cyber-risk, through new technologies and integrated solutions. The statistics are clear: cyber-attacks are no longer a matter of if, but...
Lockheed Martin received a $26.5 million contract award from the U.S. Navy to produce Enhanced Laser Guided Training Rounds (ELGTR). The contract includes a base year order with options for four additional years. Under the contract, which...
Air Defence / Air Systems / C4ISR / ISR / Logistics / NATO / new technologies / Policy / TADIC
Top national defence procurement officials discussed innovation and new initiatives to support NATO capability efforts at the Conference of National Armaments Directors (CNAD) held at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium on 4 May 2017....
The Air Force is expanding a program designed to bring cyber responsibility down the squadron level. Last year 15 squadrons took part in the Cyber Squadron Initiative, which trains communications teams to manage cyber needs...
Uber has selected Aurora Flight Sciences as a partner to develop electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for its Uber Elevate Network. Aurora’s eVTOL concept is derived from its XV-24A X-plane program currently...
The Mexican military and security forces are fielding an integrated network of intelligence gathering, surveillance and response capabilities designed to bolster homeland security and combat narco-trafficking. The heart of the system – an Airborne Surveillance Intelligence...
Janis G. Pamiljans has been elected Corporate VP and President of Aerospace Systems. Pamiljans will succeed Thomas E. Vice, who has announced his intention to retire. He will report to Wes Bush, the company’s...
Raytheon Co., Woburn, Massachusetts, has been awarded a $1,066,297,129 fixed-price, incentive-firm letter contract for a Qatar early warning radar system. Contractor will provide an early warning radar system that will be integrated into the...
Leonardo has been selected, after an international competition, by Safran Electronics & Defense to provide the PicoSAR AESA (E-Scan) radar for its Patroller UAV. The radars will be used by the French Forces, which...
Cloud / Land Systems / Logistics / Policy / US DoD
In order to improve ammo business processes, the US Standard Army Ammunition System-Modernization, is being upgraded to provide more centralized and accurate information to support ammunition management. SAAS-MOD is the system that Ammunition Supply...
The word ‘collaboration’, much like ‘innovation’, has been bandied about with some regularity in defence industry circles of late but what does it really entail? “Collaboration may be the single most important skill needed in...
In his first meeting with his Italian counterpart in today, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis thanked Defense Minister Roberta Pinotti for her country’s hospitality for U.S. forces and its contributions to various security missions. The...
It seems like some in the Italian defence industry are not happy with the amount of work domestic firms are receiving on the F-35. Guido Crosetto, the head of Italian aerospace and defence industry association...
MEADS International (MI) presented an updated offer for Poland’s medium-range air defense (Wisla) program this week to the Ministry of National Defense. The presentation follows a year of active discussion with the Polish government...
“The ability to operate forward in the region is negated if we don’t have the ability to perform maintenance repairs,” Located in Singapore since 1992, COMLOG WESTPAC is U.S. 7th Fleet’s provider of combat-ready...
US Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work signed a P-8A maritime patrol aircraft declaration with British Defense Minister for Procurement Harriett Baldwin to further strengthen the uniquely close defense relationship between the U.S. and the...
Lockheed Martin is producing Enhanced Laser Guided Training Rounds for the Polish military under a $1.9 million contract. The award was issued by Poland’s Megmar Logistics & Consulting on behalf of the Polish Ministry...
Air Systems / C4ISR / ISR
The “Tigertails” of VAW-125 are relieving the “Liberty Bells” of VAW-115 as the early-warning squadron of the U.S. Navy’s Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 5, supporting the Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) Carrier Strike Group. “We...
TASER International announced an order for 1345 TASER® X26P™ Smart Weapons for the US Air Force received through our exclusive sole source distributor, AARDVARK. This order was received and anticipated to ship in the first quarter of...
The AUDS counter-UAS defence system – field proven to detect, track and defeat malicious and errant unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) or drones – is the first fully integrated system worldwide to achieve TRL-9 status....
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