Booz Allen Hamilton has been awarded a $159 million task order on the General Services Administration (GSA) Alliant contract to streamline the US Armys tactical and data network capabilities. Booz Allen will assist with standardizing processes, reducing overhead, improving security, and increasing efficiency for PD Net E as well as the firms other Army C4ISR clients – ultimately helping to strengthen the reliability of the networks on which deployed Soldiers depend
Indias Defense Acquisition Council (DAC) has approved major policy changes that include increased offset baseline, reduced delays in procedures and emphasis on local production. The DAC has cleared the new clauses to the proposed Defense Procurement Policy (DPP) on Monday
Airbus India has appointed Ashish Saraf as Vice-President for Industry Development, Strategic Partnerships and Offsets. Saraf will drive the Groups existing ‘Make in India initiatives and conceive new ones for all the businesses of Airbus Group India with the aim to increase their industrial footprint here
Abu Dhabi Ship Building PJSC (ADSB) and Drydocks World signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Monday to create an industrial entity to strengthen maritime projects in the UAE and across the GCC. The MoU aims to enhance knowledge transfer and capabilities exchange between the two companies and is the basis for future cooperation agreements
Russian shipbuilder may choose Larson and Tuobro over Reliance Pipavav shipyard as a partner in the upgrade and refit of Indias Kilo-class submarines contract valued at $749 million (INR 5000 crore). “The Russian side has written to the Indian government, informing that an earlier partnership plan with the Anil Ambani promoted Pipavav now stands cancelled as the shipyard would not have been able to meet timelines set by the Navy for the upgrade plan,” Economic Times news daily cited unnamed sources as saying Friday
Elbit Systems will wind up the activities of its joint venture with Brazilian Embraer, ‘Harpia. The JV was formed in September 2011 in order to explore the unmanned aerial vehicles market
Frances Directorate General of Armaments (DGA) has ordered six multi-mission barges – Chalands Multi-Missions (CMM), for the countrys naval bases. The DGA notified 16 December 2015 to companies – H2X (La Ciotat) and Cegelec Defence and Naval Southeast (Toulon) for the contract
Reliance Defense Systems has bought Saabs (approximately 3.3 per cent) stake in Indias Pipavav Defense and Offshore
The US Defence Advanced Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded a Northrop Grumman-led team a project to build a full-scale technology demonstrator system of a medium-altitude, long-endurance UAV called Tern, designed to use forward-deployed small ships as mobile launch and recovery sites. The first two phases of Tern successfully focused on preliminary design and risk reduction
Indias Reliance Defense has entered into a strategic partnership with Russian United Shipbuilding Corp (USC) and Rosoboronexport eyeing multi-billion dollar surface vessel manufacturing, refitting and modernization program for the Indian Navy. India is planning to manufacture four ‘Talwar class frontline warships costing over INR 30,000 crore (US $4