Latest Feature Stories (Free access) FCAS: Is Germany Heading for the Exit? Five years after the announcement of this Franco-German program, on July 13, 2017, the disagreements between Dassault and Airbus have put this program in serious danger, despite the good will of the F... Latest Press Releases US Navy Changes Long-Term Priorities, Now Wants 373-Ship Fleet Last week, USNI News reported the service had delivered a classified force structure assessment to Congress that factored in the combatant commander requirements and a more detailed threat assessment ... India OKs $3.7Bn Defense Procurement Package The Defence Acquisition Council (DAC) meeting under the chairmanship of Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh, was held on July 26, 2022. Acceptance of Necessity (AoN) for Capital Acquisition Proposals of ... Eutelsat Shares Drop 30% After OneWeb Merger Announcement PARIS / LONDON --- Eutelsat’s chief executive Eva Berneke was on Tuesday battling to convince shareholders in the French satellite group of the case for combining with UK start-up OneWeb, admitting th... Polish Armaments Agency Details South Korean Arms Deals On July 27 this year in Warsaw, with the participation of the Vice-President of the Council of Ministers and Minister of National Defense, Mr. Mariusz Błaszczak, framework agreements were concluded re... Airbus Wins 10-Year Contract to Support Multinational Tanker Fleet LUXEMBOURG --- The NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) has awarded a multi-year contract to Airbus Defence and Space to provide Follow-on Support Services to the Multinational MRTT Fleet (MMF) ... Morgan Stanley Takeaway from Farnborough: Continued Recovery We left Farnborough positive on the continued recovery of the aerospace industry. The airshow highlighted healthy demand for new aircraft orders in spite of recession risks. We highlight our main take... Navantia Delivers Second Corvette to Saudi Arabia Navantia delivered the second of the five corvettes built for the Royal Saudi Navy Forces (RSNF) in its shipyards at the Bay of Cadiz, the construction 547, named AL-DIRIYAH, in a ceremony held at its... Russian Nuclear Sub ‘Dmitry Donskoy’ Sails Home: Tass MOSCOW --- Russia’s nuclear-powered submarine The Dmitry Donskoy, the largest in the world, has returned to the Northern Fleet’s base at Severodvinsk, a shipbuilding industry source told TASS on Wedne... Can Canada Fix its Broken Defense Procurement? Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine launched February 24, 2022 was a wake-up call to the world, including here in Canada. One immediate effect has been the desperate and urgent pleas from Ukraine to fr... Pratt Gets $15M to Plan Reduction of Future F-35 Engine Support Costs Raytheon Technologies Corp., Pratt and Whitney Military Engines, East Hartford, Connecticut, is awarded a $14,895,376 modification (P00006) to a previously awarded, cost-plus-incentive-fee contract (N... GA Wins $16M to Support Spanish MQ-9A Predator UAVs General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc., Poway, California, has been awarded a not-to-exceed $16,264,357, cost-plus-fixed-fee, undefinitized contract for the Spanish Air Force. This contract pro... Brazil Orders BAE ARTISAN Radar for Its Flagship NAM Atlântico BAE Systems has signed a five-year contract to support its ARTISAN Radar on the Brazilian Navy’s flagship, the multipurpose aircraft carrier NAM Atlântico. The new contract will provide through-li... Low-Cost Tech Shaping Modern Battlefield: US Socom Commander In his 38 years as a soldier, across theaters ranging from the Middle East to Europe, the commander of Special Operations Command says he never had to look up. But those days are ending. "I never... Bath Iron Works Awarded DDG(X) Design Contract BATH, Maine --– General Dynamics Bath Iron Works (BIW) has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Navy to provide shipbuilder engineering and design analysis to produce design products in support of the ... Russia Turns to North Korea to Break Sanction Rules WASHINGTON --- Russian and North Korea, both beset by punishing economic sanctions, appear to be looking for ways to help one another while thumbing their noses at the rules-based order espoused by th... China Says FH-95 Electronic Warfare Drone Passes Test China's domestically developed FH-95 electronic warfare unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) passed a milestone test that examined the aircraft's performance, with experts saying on Tuesday that the new UAV'... China Certifies Co-Developed Z-15 Helicopter Civil Aviation Administration of China on Tuesday awarded a qualification certificate to the Z-15, a medium-sized, multipurpose helicopter also known as the AC352, marking the successful development o... Kratos Wins $54M to Develop Low-Cost Engine for Attritable Systems SAN DIEGO --- Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. announced today that Kratos Turbine Technologies (KTT) Division has been awarded a task order contract to develop a low cost, limited life engin... India’s iDEX Awards 100th Defense Innovation Contract iDEX (Innovations for Defence Excellence), the flagship initiative of the Department of Defence Production, Ministry of Defence, ceremoniously embarked upon the milestone of signing its 100th contract... L3Harris Joins Industry Team for Canadian SkyGuardian Bid L3Harris in Hamilton Ontario, recently joined their teammates GA-ASI, MDA and CAE Canada in a conversation with Vanguard Magazine Canada to discuss Team SkyGuardian – the RPAS (Remotely Piloted Aircra... BAE Wins $1.3 Billion Contract to Operate US Army Ammo Plant The U.S. Army has awarded BAE Systems a five-year contract extension for operations at the Radford Army Ammunition Plant with a ceiling value of up to $1.3 billion. The operating contract will exte... Sikorsky S-92 Helicopter Fleet Logs 2 Million Flight Hours STRATFORD, Conn. --- The global fleet of the multi-mission Sikorsky S-92 helicopters is rapidly accumulating flight hours, surpassing 2 million flight hours in a variety of missions including search a... |