Two of the biggest names in defense have announced a strategic partnership to market high mobility armoured wheeled vehicles. ST Kinetics and Paramount Group have agreed to pool their expertise to jointly market, manufacture and support a family of protected wheeled vehicles
Mer Systems, the Israeli security and communications systems provider, has launched a smart new portable meteorological defense system called the RaM2C. The system, will be unveiled during Eurosatory, June 11-15, in Paris, provides meteorological support to artillery units and various modes of shooting - from tanks, from the air, by snipers, as well as homeland security applications such as airport defense, fire-fighting, and NBC operations
The Indian Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) is looking to upgrade the Border Security Forces’ communication systems by procuring 201 satellite Phones. The MHA issued a Request For Information on 4 May, 2012 and is expecting responses before 19 June, 2012
Military and Law Enforcement agencies around the world can now rely on advanced technology to identify suspects from a low-resolution photo or video surveillance. Animetrics, a developer of advanced 3D facial recognition and identity management solutions, today introduced ForensicaGPS, a revolutionary facial recognition technology
A new £350m MOD contract to maintain the Royal Air Force's Hercules aircraft will support 500 UK jobs. This will help support operations in Afghanistan with greater resilience through continuing maintenance of the fleet
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Roberto Adinolfi, chief executive of Ansaldo Nucleare , a nuclear engineering company owned by Italian defense giant Finmeccanica was shot outside his house in Genoa in northern Italy on Monday. Two unidentified gunmen on a black Yamaha motorbike wearing helmets fired three shots, fracturing Adinolfi's right knee
General Dynamics C4 Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics (GD), has been awarded a contract by the U.S
The U.S Army has awarded ITT Exelis to supply goggles that allow soldiers to detect and identify potential threats while maintaining a secure position in various environmental conditions during nighttime missions
CAE and Aeronautics today announced that the first series of flights of the Miskam unmanned aerial system (UAS) have been conducted successfully over the past several weeks at the UAS Centre of Excellence (Centre d'excellence des drones) located at Alma airport in Quebec, Canada. The demonstration flights represent the first phase of a research and development (R&D) project aimed at demonstrating how unmanned systems can be used for civil applications such as remote inspection of pipelines and hydroelectric installations, surveillance of forest fires, observation of critical natural resources, assessing natural disasters and a range of other applications