Luciad announced its support for Cloud based Geospatial Situational Awareness applications and services. Cloud computing is a rapidly emerging technology in the Defense, Security and Aviation domains, and an essential element of Geospatial Situational Awareness applications and services. Cloud computing … Continue reading
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Smart Defence with “Smart Military APPS”
Smart-phone technologies, already familiar to many young soldiers who are once and future gamers, might be changing the face of warfare. Smart phones are a leap-ahead technology offering soldiers myriad of capabilities to satisfy their need to share voice and … Continue reading
Export Reform: Lawmakers See Threat to Oversight Role
As the Obama administration moves to expedite arms sales to foreign countries, key lawmakers are claiming the executive branch is threatening Congress’ role in overseeing sensitive foreign arms deals. With the April 18 release of a Pentagon report that urges … Continue reading
Further dramatic F-35 cost increases could force Norway to reconsider programme
If there is a further dramatic cost increase on the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), Norway will reconsider its participation in the programme. “If there should happen to be something that would really affect the cost curves in … Continue reading
7 NATO Countries Joined U.S. in Schriever Wargame
Representatives from seven NATO countries joined the U.S. for the first time in a war game that focuses on space and cyber defense issues. Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey took part in Schriever Wargame 2012 International … Continue reading
Question to FAA on Privacy of Drones
Lawmakers questioned the Federal Aviation Administration’s plan to test allowing drones to fly beside commercial airplanes in U.S. airspace. The FAA is planning a pilot program that would allow unmanned aircraft to fly in six test sites. The agency said … Continue reading
Cassidian’s Coastal Radar to detected Small and Fast Sea Moving Targets
Cassidian, the defence and security division of EADS, has proven the superior performance of its newly developed SPEXER™ 2000 Coastal radar in an extensive series of real-scenario field tests. In challenging test runs exerted last months in France, South Africa … Continue reading
Innovative Threat Warning System
A team of Northrop Grumman Corporation engineers recently successfully demonstrated the capability of the company’s Silent Watch Electro-Optical Infrared (EO/IR) Distributed Aperture System (DAS) to enable a surface vessel to sense and track threats. The Silent Watch EO/DAS was originally … Continue reading
MUBADALA: $1BN Deal as Supplier to Boeing
Mubadala Aerospace yesterday announced a US$1 billion (Dh3.67bn) contract to build major sections for the Boeing 777 and 787 Dreamliner airliners at its Strata Manufacturing plant in Al Ain. The announcement, which dominated yesterday’s Global Aerospace Summit in Abu Dhabi, … Continue reading
SAIC will establish Cybersecurity Research and Development in Australia
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) has initiated plans to expand its current Australian operations to include a regional cybersecurity research and development (R&D) center in Melbourne, Australia. The center will focus on R&D in new technologies and applications that mitigate … Continue reading
Air Force Chooses Nine Companies to Share in Potential $6.9 Billion for Military IT Contracts April 17, 2012
U.S. Air Force information technology (IT) experts are awarding military IT contracts worth a potential $6.9 billion to nine computer companies to provide computer networking and data-processing equipment for network-centric warfare operations worldwide. The deals with these nine companies are … Continue reading
Cobham: £13M For Ground-Penetrating Radar Systems
Cobham has been awarded a number of orders, totalling over £13M in the first quarter of 2012, to supply Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR) and support solutions for a number of NATO customers. The orders will be delivered during 2012 from the … Continue reading
UK’S F-35 has inaugural flight.
The UK’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft took its inaugural flight last week at Lockheed Martin’s Fort Worth facility. During the 45 minute sortie, test pilot Bill Gigliotti put the short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) Lightning II aircraft through a number … Continue reading
US and China engage in cyber war games
The US and China have been discreetly engaging in “war games” amid rising anger in Washington over the scale and audacity of Beijing-co-ordinated cyber attacks on western governments and big business, the Guardian has learned. State department and Pentagon officials, … Continue reading
U.S. CG $78.5m for Two Additional Maritime Patrol Aircraft
The U.S. Coast Guard has exercised a $78.5 million contract option to purchase the service’s 16th and 17th HC-144A Ocean Sentry Maritime Patrol Aircraft from prime contractor EADS North America. The HC-144A is based on the Airbus Military CN235 tactical … Continue reading
EW Sensor Sought to Enable Military Mission in GPS-denied Areas
Many U.S. Military systems, such as missiles, rely on the Global Positioning System (GPS) to provide accurate position, orientation and time information while in flight. When GPS is inaccessible, whether as a result of a malfunction or as a consequence … Continue reading
Fence System Detects and Tracks Space Objects
Raytheon Company’s Space Fence recently completed a comprehensive Preliminary Design Review (PDR) demonstrating the S-band radar’s technical maturity in its ability to detect and track the increasing amount of space debris orbiting the Earth. This debris is proving to be … Continue reading
Dutch to Buy Fewer F-35 Jets than Planned
The Netherlands will buy fewer than the 85 Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jets it had planned to acquire because costs have risen and the country needs to replace fewer F-16 fighters, the Dutch defence minister said on … Continue reading
Cyber Attacks are to be made public ?
The Lockheed Martin F-35 program made unwanted headlines in the U.K. last month after The Sunday Times revealed that BAE Systems’ portion of the project had been subject to significant data theft. Sources told the newspaper that the network intrusion … Continue reading
U.S. Army: Contract to NGC for unattended surveillance systems
SCORPION II is the next generation of persistent autonomous surveillance systems for force protection and intelligence gathering. The U.S. Army has awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation a contract to provide SCORPION and SCORPION II Unattended Ground Sensor (UGS) systems to protect … Continue reading