Indian Defence Minister AK Antony said on Tuesday the country was committed to fighting the "serious challenge" of piracy and called for "cooperative approaches" for ensuring the security of sea lanes in the Asia-Pacific region - "one of the most important drivers of global economic growth". Addressing the first Association of Southeast Asian Nations plus eight (Asean+) defence ministers' meeting in this Vietnam capital, Antony said piracy was "a serious challenge for the world community"
Raytheon Company received a $112.3 million contract to design and develop an S-band radar and radar suite controller technology demonstrator for the U
Boeing announced today that the U.S
SELEX Galileo, a Finmeccanica Company, is exhibiting its latest technology as part of the Finmeccanica Group pavilion at Farnborough International Airshow (FIA) 2010. As a leading supplier of sensor systems, SELEX Galileo will showcase its range of airborne radar, defensive aids suites, aircraft and mission avionics for surveillance, and combat and ISTAR applications in land and airborne domains
The long-running fight over the Pentagon’s $35 billion tanker contract enters a new stage on Friday when Boeing and EADS North America submit bids to build a midair refueling tanker. Air Force and Defense Department officials will pore over thousands of pages of technical and price data over the next four months to choose a victor in a lobbying and public-relations war the two companies and their congressional supporters have waged for much of the last decade
Three F-16 Fighting Falcons are scheduled to arrive in Pakistan June 26 with 15 more to be delivered later this year and next, said Maj. Todd Robbins, the Pakistan country director in the office of the undersecretary of the Air Force for international affairs
General Dynamics C4 Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics, has been awarded a seven-year contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center for the Space Network Ground Segment Sustainment (SGSS) project. The company will modernize the ground system and network for NASA's Tracking Data and Relay Satellite (TDRS) constellation
Lockheed Martin Corp. said a fourth batch of F-35 fighter planes will beat Pentagon cost estimates by more than 20 percent, even as new U
SES World Skies, a division of SES SA, today announced that it has signed an agreement with Astrium, a wholly-owned subsidiary of EADS, for the procurement of a new satellite to be named SES-6. Consistent with its approach at other orbital locations, the deployment of SES-6 to 319
New armored vehicle contracts for BAE Systems in Finland and Norway have taken land sales to Nordic countries above $215 million in the past two months, underpinning the strength of the company's export portfolio. The company has won a contract to supply 16 RG32M mine-hardened patrol vehicles to the Finland Defence Force, worth more than EUR 6 million ($8