SELEX Galileo, a Finmeccanica company announced the award of over 40 Enforcer Remote Controlled Weapon Stations (RCWS) for installation on the Ridgeback fleet. The contract will equip a substantial proportion of the latest generation of protected mobility vehicles with highly capable and operationally proven equipment giving enhanced survivability, observation and firepower to its users
Patria and ThalesRaytheonSystems have on 3 July signed in Massy France, an agreement on Patria’s part in the Finnish Defence Force’s medium and long-range radar systems programs following the decision by the Finnish Ministry of Defence to award the supply of medium range radars and the modernisation of long range radars to ThalesRaytheonSystems. The value of the Patria agreement is approximately EUR 10 million
Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) has received the largest single order in its recent history with a commission for series production of the Puma Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV). PSM GmbH (Project System and Management), a joint venture in which KMW and Rheinmetall AG of Düsseldorf each hold a 50% stake, was awarded a contract by the Federal German Defence Technology and Procurement Agency (BWB) for the delivery of 405 newly developed combat vehicles
After being under contract for the northern border security, which is now under execution, EADS Defence and Security has been awarded (as prime contractor) the border security program covering the full borders of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This contract will be executed in the next 5 years and is the largest contract ever competed worldwide as a full solution
EDA launches a groundbreaking approach to offsets on 1 July with the implementation of the Code of Conduct on Offsets. First, the Code introduces much needed transparency to offset agreements, which up until now has often been lacking
DCK North America, LLC, Large, Pa., is being awarded a $37,937,937 firm-fixed-price contract for the design and construction of an Operational Training Facility for Multi-Mission Aircraft (MMA/P-8A) at Naval Air Station Jacksonville
More than a quarter of defense products and equipment to be exhibited at the DSA 2010 show will be Malaysian, the country’s defence minister, Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi was quoted as saying in the local media. "I also expect not less than 10 percent participation from local players for DSA 2010," he said
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Turkish Aerospace Industries, Inc. (TAI), which is Turkey’s center of aerospace, has acquired an international success by signing a contract regarding the modernization of PAF F-16s
The Norwegian Defence Logistics Organisation has selected the BAE Systems Insyte Sting Ray Mod 1 lightweight torpedo to meet the requirements of its Norwegian Anti-submarine Torpedo (NAT) programme. Sting Ray Mod 1 will arm the new Fridtjof Nansen-class frigates and will be integrated with the new NH90 anti-submarine warfare helicopter and the Orion P3-C maritime patrol aircraft