French companies, Dassault, Thales and MBDA which have together won a US$2.4 billion Indian Mirage 2000 upgrade deal will have to plough back 30% of the contract value as offsets into Indian companies
Kongsberg has signed a contract for extensions to the Command & Weapons Control Systems already under contract for delivery to the two new U212A 2nd Batch submarines under construction in Italy for the Italian Navy. The contract was made between the Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri and Kongsberg
Alliant Techsystems has received a $54 million order for 120mm training tank ammunition from the U.S
Astrium Services has been awarded a contract by the Canadian Department of National Defence (DND) to deliver the AirPatrol airborne satcom terminal to support Canada’s Radar and Imaging for the Land/Littoral Environment (RIFL2E) Technology Demonstration Project (TDP). The terminal, which will be delivered and supported by Astrium Services’ Secure Satcom Systems, will enable DND to evaluate the technical feasibility and operational capability of an airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) platform
Renault Trucks Defense has signed with Thales a contract for supplying 21 units of vehicles type Premium, Midlum and Sherpa Light carrier dedicated to the tactical stations of the Syracuse III military satellite communications program. In 2009 Renault Trucks Defense had already sold 33 units of Sherpa light carriers
Lockheed Martin Corp., is being awarded a $157,699,625 contract modification (HR0011-09-C-0097)
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), committed to revolutionizing defense manufacturing through its Adaptive Vehicle Make (AVM) initiative, has awarded 13 performer contracts for the META program. META is one part of the AVM portfolio and aimed at model-based design and verification of complex systems that are correct-by-construction
MathWorks today announced that Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) reduced by 50 percent the development time of its Prisma project, which tests and validates guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) strategies for advanced autonomous formation flying. SSC adopted Model-Based Design with MATLAB and Simulink to help model and simulate the GNC system, perform real-time closed-loop simulations, and generate production flight code
Spatial Integrated Systems, Inc. (SIS) announced that it has won a major proof-of-concept contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in response to its recent solicitation for the Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV) program
Four Royal Navy (RN) mine countermeasures vessels (MCMVs) fitted with Thales UK’s minehunting sonars have been taking part in a series of important joint exercises with the US Navy (USN) in the Arabian Gulf, where their detection performance has been described by the RN as ‘world beating’. The exercises were designed to enable the two navies to further develop minehunting techniques in the warm, shallow waters of the Gulf, a busy and important international maritime environment