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U.S. and British leaders agreed to stand up a strategy board comprising national security, state and intelligence officials to address long-term defense and economic issues affecting each country. “The Board will help enable a...
EU foreign ministers meeting on May 23 identified research and technology, procurement, maintenance, logistics, education and training as potential areas for pooling and sharing initiatives. The EU’s Military Committee compiled the findings, which are...
NATO’s secretary-general on May 19 called for a “true, strategic partnership” between NATO and Russia after warnings from Moscow of a possible new Cold War should the two sides fail to agree on missile...
Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today joined New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully to sign a joint statement on global supply chain security cooperation — further strengthening ongoing collaboration between the United States...
Ongoing operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and to a limited extent Libya have particularly shown the usefulness of UAVs for military tasks like intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are viewed as...
Forbes loves lists. The richest counties. The worst cars. The priciest colleges. In nearly a year of blogging for Forbes, though, I haven’t managed to produce a single list about national security, the topic...
The Pentagon will implement a new cost estimating strategy on 14 major acquisition programs in an attempt to make the weapons’ projected price tags more realistic and save money, according to a April 22...
Bulgarian Defense Minister Anyu Angelov has announced an ambitious military investment plan until 2020. Photo by BGNES Bulgaria plans to spend 2 billion Lev (1 BEuro) by 2020 to acquire military equipment that...
FMS sales of U.S. weapons to foreign nations is projected to exceed $46 billion in fiscal year 2011, which ends Sept. 30. Equipment includes Lockheed Martin [LMT] C-130Js transport planes, Boeing [BA] C-17 cargo...
EADS North America announced that it has further integrated and expanded the company’s Space and related product activities in the U.S., supporting government agencies, private sector customers and academia. The line of business (LOB) will...
See also in https://www.aofs.org/hs-bilateral-agreements-us/ the text of some HS bilateral agreements. Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC): FEMA supports the Department of State and other U.S. departments and agencies’ engagement in APEC’s Emergency Preparedness Working Group...
Simone Bemporad: “I think that we could benefit from the focus that the QDR poses on partnerships with allied countries. What I mean is that we will see more programs in which several countries...
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been the most dynamic growth sector of the world aerospace industry this decade, report Teal analysts in their latest integrated market analysis. Teal Group’s 2011 market study estimates that...
Prime Minister David Cameron met representatives of some of Britain’s biggest private companies to work with the Government on protecting the country against cyber attack. Foreign Secretary William Hague and Baroness Neville-Jones also took...
On 4 February, NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, delivered the keynote speech at the Munich Security Conference on building security in an age of austerity, a challenge he asserted that NATO was ideally...
As the Defense Department focuses on cost savings, it is putting new pressure on contractors to sell the design specifications and intellectual property associated with programs. Owning the data associated with a program helps...
The Pentagon in February likely will send Congress a fiscal 2012 budget blueprint seeking about $15 billion less than the $678 billion sought for 2011 – and some Obama administration officials want even deeper...
The U.K. government Dec. 20 launched a Green Paper marking the formal consultation on equipment, support, and technology for U.K. defence and security. The consultation, led by the Ministry of Defence and the Home...
Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn on Tuesday told Virginia lawmakers impending contracting cuts Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced last summer could be far smaller than many predicted, an aide to Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va.,...
The expected announcement of Iraq’s new government marks the culmination of a remarkable process. The former bully-boy of the Arab neighborhood has become its only functional democracy. What may be the world’s richest resource...