The NATO Communication and Information (NCI) Agency is announcing business opportunities in cyber, air and missile defence as well as advanced software, worth 3 billion EUR. This comes in parallel to decisions taken at the Warsaw Summit to strengthen the Alliance's deterrence and defence, the NATO NCI said in a statement Wednesday
Lockheed Martin conducted a controlled flight test of the Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) surface-launch variant from the Self Defense Test Ship. This was the third surface-launched LRASM test to showcase the missiles ability to load mission data using the modified Tactical Tomahawk Weapon Control System (TTWCS+), align mission data with the moving ship and launch from the MK 41 Vertical Launch System (VLS), the company said in a statement Thursday
Pilatus has completed its initial production test flight of the first of 49 PC-21 aircraft destined for the Australian Defence Forces. Under a contract signed in December 2015 aimed at harmonising Australian Defence Force flight training across all three services – Army, Navy and Air Force – Pilatus will deliver a total of 49 PC-21 which will operate from four Royal Australian Air Force bases
The Indian government on Tuesday said that 18 more Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas in IOC (Initial Operation Clearance) standard are planned for induction by 2018-19. In a written reply to Parliamant on Tuesday, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said this would be followed by 20 more aircraft in Final Operation Configuration (FOC) standard, which are planned for induction from year 2019
The UK and the US in a joint program will conduct a series of trials of robotics and autonomous systems beginning October next year for the final stage of transportation of supplies to troops in challenging environments. The final transportation stage often dubbed ‘the last mile, can be particularly lengthy and dangerous for those involved – and it is in situations like this that both countries feel robotics can make the process more efficient in terms of cost, time and risk, UK Defence Minister Philip Dunne and US Under Secretary of Defense Frank Kendall said Thursday
The US Army awarded the LONGBOW Limited Liability Company (LLC) an $89.8 million contract to upgrade the Apache attack helicopter's LONGBOW Fire Control Radar (FCR)
General Dynamics has won Foreign Military Sales (FMS) contract worth $169 million to provide Hydra rockets to Colombia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, India, and Belgium. “General Dynamics – OTS Inc
The US Department of Defense on Monday announced two initiatives with industry to reduce F-35 Lightning II production and sustainment costs. The first is a two-year extension of the "Blueprint for Affordability for Production" program announced in 2014, and the second is the creation of a similar concept to reduce the operation and sustainment costs of the F-35 weapon system, according to Lockheed Martin press release
United Technologies Corp has won the US Navy contract worth $1.5 billion for the production of F135-PW-100 propulsion systems that powers the fifth generation aircraft F-35
Boeing has been awarded a $45 million contract for development, production and sustainment of a KC-46 maintenance training system. Contactor will provide an integrated contractor-operated and contractor-supported maintenance training system (MTS) for all KC-46 maintenance training