Saab has signed a new framework contract with the USSOCOM for the companys Carl-Gustaf man-portable weapon system.The contract is a follow on agreement to a previous 5 year contract for the 84mm recoilless rifle system
Saab has been selected to supply a Wide Area Multilateration (WAM) system – to provide precise surveillance during the training at US Army Joint Base Lewis – McChord (JBLM), Washington. JBLM will be the fourth US military installation to utilize Saab WAM for surveillance of flights in Special Use Airspace, joining US Naval Air Station Patuxent River, US Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms and US Army Yuma Proving Grounds
Rockwell Collins has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a direct conversion digital receiver based on photonic technology under a three-year contract worth $8.5 million
Rockwell Collins has been awarded a three-year contract valued at $3.1 million to develop technology that will dramatically reduce the size, weight, power and cost (SWAP-C) of software defined radios
Former Indian Air Force Chief Air Chief Marshal S P Tyagi today strongly denied allegations that he was paid a multi-million dollar bribe to help AgustaWestland seal the VVIP helicopter deal. His statement comes a day after Finmeccanica CEO and Chief Executive Giuseppe Orsi was arrested in connection to the money laundering charges
Charges that AgustaWestland paid bribes worth Euro 51 million to “agents” to swing a deal for 12 VVIP helicopters for the Indian Air Force are based on the statements of Lorenzo BORGOGNI, former head of external relations for Finmeccanica who has claimed during cross examination that the information about the bribery was based on “rumours” he had heard within the company. According to a transcript of BORGOGNI’s cross examination held on November 15, 2012 at the court of Naples in the presence of deputy public prosecutor Vincenzo Piscitelli, the former claimed that there had been two “agreements” between certain...
Indonesia has found itself in the center of a defense procurement scandal involving Italian plane-maker AgustaWestland. Italian sleuths are currently carrying out investigations looking into allegations of bribery by the Finmeccanica group to win large government contracts
Effective 1 February 2012, Pietro Borgo takes over chairmanship of the Executive Board of Rheinmetall MAN Military Vehicles (RMMV) in Munich, and will simultaneously serve on the Executive Board of Rheinmetall Defence. Since 2006, Pietro Borgo had been general manager of Iveco Defence Vehicles of Bolzano, Italy
Saab Training USA has signed a contract with the U.S
Saab has received an order from the Swedish Defence Material Administration, FMV, for the continuous support of Gripen’s operational capacity. The contract is valued to MSEK 230($30 million)