A Brazilian delegation consisting of nine military officers of the Ministry of Defense embarked Tuesday to Russia in order to carrying out additional assessments of the Pantsir-S1 medium-range air-defence system. The Brazilian group will participate in a field exercise of the Russian armed forces, when can verify in loco requirements considered essential for the acquisition process, started in 2013, and has continued to enter into their contractual stage, according to a Brazilian MoD statement
Boeing has won a $295.6 million contract for 12 P-8A Poseidon Multi-Mission Maritime aircraft for use in the US Navy and Royal Australian Air Force fleets
Boeing has received a contract from NATO worth approximately $250 million to install digital flight decks and avionics on 13 of the alliances Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft, which are based on the Boeing 707 commercial airplane. The new technology ensures compliance with current and future air traffic control and navigation requirements, giving the aircraft broader access to airspace around the world
General Dynamics Fidelis partnered with Crowdstrike to provide access to shared threat intelligence that helps customers with prevention, detection, attribution and remediation of cyber-attacks in real-time. CrowdStrike provides Fidelis XPS customers with a broader range of threat intelligence in addition to the threat intelligence provided by General Dynamics Fidelis claim General Dynamics Fidelis
Pipavav is declared ‘qualified by the Indian Navy as a Combat Management System (CMS) to modernize or replace up to 100 fighting ships over the next ten years. Saab will embed key technical staff at the Pipavav development facility in Delhi to continue the technology transfer in October
Airbus Defense and Space signed a new agreement with Inmarsat for US government market on Global Xpress high-speed broadband network. New agreement covers commercial Ka-band and is part of Airbus Defense and Spaces recently launched AuroraGlobal suite of new high throughput satcom services
ARES, A subsidiary of Elbit Systems is signing a supply deal of 5000 optical sights to Brazillian Armys assault rifles. The contract includes reflex multi-purpose devices, MVR MARS RS equipped with laser pointers used in conjunction with telescopic sight multi-purpose TRISIGHT X3
Airbus Defense and Space, Inmarsat agree to deliver broadband airborne Global Xpress terminals. The agreement secures satcom options for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) operations for aircraft, as well as for the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) domain
Indias Ministry of Commerce and Industry has streamlined various defense items requiring licensing to boost defense production. The notification released on June 26, 2014 has restricted the conditions of defense license to Tanks and other armor fighting vehicles, defense aircrafts, space craft and parts thereof, warships of all kinds and arms and ammunition and allied items of defense equipment, parts and accessories
A Northrop Grumman executive has called for more robust global partnerships to provide a collective defense against increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks. Kathy Warden, corporate vice president and president, Northrop Grumman Information Systems, said during the Information Assurance 2014 (IA14), the U