Carnegie Mellon Universitys Software Engineering Institute has won a $1.73 billion renewed contract to support the US DoD with secure software systems
Lockheed Martin has won a $37.5 million contract for retrofit modification of F-35 aircraft
Harris Corporation (HRS) has won a two-year, $29 million contract to produce key avionics components that will enhance flight crews targeting capabilities on the F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet fighter aircraft and EA-18G Growler electronic attack platform. US and Australian Navy are the primary users of both the aircraft and the avionics are a critical part of the Distributed Targeting System which will improve the aircrafts networking capabilities and enhance targeting precision apart from shortening the time from target sensing to shooting
US military has purchased a Multi-Mission Hemispheric Radar (MHR) from RADA Electronic Industries in Israel for testing and evaluation of its capabilities. The MHR will be delivered before the end of 2015, the company announced Tuesday
China plans to integrate civil-military airports in Tibet and Wuxi as part of the pilot project to strengthen aviation safety and combat support capabilities. The integration includes joint maintenance of airport support facilities, joint flight safety support and joint airport management, said a circular released by People's Liberation Army(PLA) Air Force and General Administration of Civil Aviation (CAAC), according to a joint statement from the country's Air Force and aviation authority
The US will start large scale demonstrations of directed energy weapons within five years to counter ballistic and cruise missile threat in less expensive way. Defense Undersecretary Frank Kendall, the top US arms buyer said Tuesday that the funds for directed energy programs would remain steady at about $300 million a year for now
The Thai Navy has deferred a cabinet decision to purchase Chinese submarines worth US$1.1 billion till September 30 and has launched a public support campaign for the sub procurement plan
Dilution of stringent conditions, removing nomination based Defense Public Sector Undertaking (DPSU) contracts, and setting indigenization target with a time frame will encourage Indian domestic companies to take part in defense equipment manufacturing. The Indian government should set indigenization target within a time frame to encourage domestic companies to take part in Defense equipment manufacturing
Fresh satellite images have suggested that the North Korea has completed upgrade to its main rocket launch site possibly for a launch that is supposed to take place in October. The US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies said that the analysis of the new pictures captured on 21st July indicate that the construction of a support building on the launchpad where rockets would be prepared is completed
South Korea will complete major upgrade on its indigenous K-11 dual-barrel air burst rifle by 2016 year end. The use of the assault rifle by the army was suspended last year due to a glitch in the shooting control system