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Air Defence / C4ISR / sensor
As part of the FLORAKO programme modernisation, Armasuisse has awarded Thales a contract to upgrade the Master radars for the Swiss Air Force. This contract, which amounts to 74 million euros, will be the...
Organized by the Centro Studi Militari Aeronautici (CESMA) a conference entitled “UAV: what to do if they are hostile?” has been held to discuss how it is possible to counter the potential threat created...
RADA Electronic Industries Ltd. – a leader in the development, production, and sale of tactical land radars for force and border protection – announced it had received an order for its Multi-Mission Hemispheric Radar-based...
The United Kingdom will be adding the water-patrolling, submarine-hunting Boeing P-8A Poseidon to its Royal Air Force (RAF) fleet. Following the UK prime minister announcement at the 2016 Farnborough International Air Show, the UK...
The Lockheed Martin-built SBIRS GEO Flight 3 satellite will provide enhanced missile warning and defense for the U.S. Air Force SBIRS GEO Flight 3 is equipped with powerful scanning and staring sensors that collect...
Technology Could Simplify Secure Data Sharing: The goal of DARPA’s new Secure Handhelds on Assured Resilient networks at the tactical Edge (SHARE) program is to create a system where information at multiple levels of security...
Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Interview Dunford at the side of the NATO Military Committee meeting Dunford told reporters traveling with him that Russia has built up its capabilities in the nuclear...
Revolutions promise change, the only problem being that the promised changes don’t always go to plan and rapid transformation often throws up its own batch of winners and losers. It’s not surprising then that...
Defence and security company Saab has received an order within the Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) segment. The order amounts to approx. USD 236 Million. Deliveries will be made from 2019 until 2021....
Airbus Defense and Space, Inc. will provide the TRS-3D Baseline D multi-mode radar (MMR) for the U.S. Coast Guard’s ninth National Security Cutter (NSC). NSCs are 418 feet long with a 54-foot beam and...
Aerospace / Air Systems / UAV
The British and French governments have signed an agreement to begin a new phase of the bilateral Future Combat Air System (FCAS) programme. A 12-month study phase will now begin, which will ultimately lead...
Small businesses will be just as attractive to hackers as large corporations A new target for cybercriminals: wearable devices A shift towards an offensive cybersecurity stance for government entities and corporations More universal adoption...
On behalf of the AOS team, I would like to wish you and your loved ones all the best for a happy, healthy and prosperous year 2017! Au nom de l’équipe AOS je tiens...
Advanced satellite communications are an absolute necessity for military victory. The information that gets sent around the world must be kept safe, secure and protected. It can’t be intercepted by adversaries. Thousands of miles...
The 16.5-megawatt 98-acre solar energy farm at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst project will be the largest military solar installation and will include more than 50,000 solar panels when it’s completed in 2017. “This is a...
There are already tools to make our cities less polluted and chaotic: cars and electric vans, car-sharing, apps that inform about traffic in real-time, domestic renewable energy generators, autonomous driving. They are tools that...
The flight campaign is carried out in collaboration with the Distretto Tecnologico Aerospaziale Pugliese (DTA) and Ente Nazionale Aviazione Civile (ENAC) With the first flight of the innovative remotely piloted helicopter SW-4 ‘Solo’ at the...
As part of collaborative efforts across the UK to assess how autonomous air vehicles could be integrated in UK airspace, scientists and engineers at BAE Systems have begun another tranche of ground-breaking unmanned aircraft...
DARPA developing advanced tech to protect US power grid against cyber attack The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, better known as DARPA, has awarded Raytheon BBN Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of Raytheon...
The industry of Unmanned Air Systems (UAS) is new and so are the regulations on this subject. There are several countries that have developed specific regulation frameworks in respect of UAS – generic category...
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