The US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) became the first intelligence agency to host an operational capability within Amazon Web Services' Commercial Cloud Services (C2S) environment after Lockheed Martin deployed the interactive map for NGA's Map of the World to the C2S environment. The Map of the World initiative acts as an interface for NGA's most comprehensive and accurate geospatial intelligence data
Airmen from the 15th and 154th Wings at Joint Base Pearl-Harbor Hickam, Hawaii, exercised the newest approach to fighter employment on November 20-24 at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam. Rapid Raptor, which is still in the proof-of-concept phase, uses at least one C-17 to swiftly move, refuel and rearm a minimum of four F-22s in unfamiliar, austere environments
Airbus Group and Safran have announced the creation of their new Joint Venture named Airbus Safran Launchers. With an initial workforce of around 450, starting operations on 1 January 2015, Airbus Safran Launchers will maintain the outstanding level of quality and reliability of Ariane 5, while working on a new family of state-of-the-art space launchers to foster Europes leading role in the space industry
In his first meeting with his French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian, Indian Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar raised the MMRCA deal with Dassault and said it would be "resolved in a fast-tracked manner". This is the second visit to India by the French defense minister in the past six months and the first since Manohar Parrikar became the defense minister
Pakistan plans to procure the fourth generation stealth fighter aircraft FC-31 Shenyang from China, according to media reports. Pakistani Defense Minister Rana Tanveer Hussain has confirmed that meetings with China were underway for the procurement of the stealth fighter, Dawn newspaper reported Tuesday
Airbus will deliver 15 military multi-role helicopter, the EC645 T2 (LUH SOF) to German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) by 2015 year end. Airbus announced today that the helicopter has successfully completed its first flight
Dassault systems announced today that it has renewed its ongoing technical partnership with Solar Impulse to develop the next phases of the solar-powered, round the world airplane project. The Solar Impulse 2 airplane uses Dassault Systems 3DEXPERIENCE platform, including its CATIA and ENOVIA applications, to design, build, and validate this second solar airplane
US and British intelligence agencies have been linked to Regin, a top-tier espionage tool ,indentified by Symantec, that enables stealthy surveillance. Regin was reportedly was used to spy on governments, businesses, researchers and individuals since 2008, Symantec said in its official blog post Monday
Regin, a top-tier espionage tool that enables stealthy surveillance, was used to spy on governments, businesses, researchers and individuals since 2008, Symantec said in its official blog post today. An advanced piece of malware, known as Regin, has been used in systematic spying campaigns against a range of international targets since at least 2008
Lucid Dimensions announced today the release of the ThunderboltT Hostile Fire Detection (HFD) with the ability to instantly detect and locate the origin of hostile weapons fire by using both Infrared (IR) and acoustic sensors. ThunderboltT system builds upon the company's prior Spherical IR-only weapons flash detection, with the established ShotSense3DT product line