* DoD and the US intelligence community pledge to bolster the space industrial base, update space technology export controls, and pursue strategies for fighting in a degraded space environment, according to the new National Security Space Strategy. * What is the...
* DoD report to Congress on contracting fraud [PDF] details civil and criminal fraud committed by over 100 contractors, many of whom continued to receive funds from the department. * General Dynamics' 10 million share buyback would be worth $757 million based on the...
* A governmental commission is investigating whether Russia's GEO-IK-2 satellite - designed to gather gravitational data to improve guidance of ballistic missiles and launched Feb 1/02 aboard a Rokot rocket from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome - is stranded in a useless...
SOAR MH-60Gs(click to view larger) ITT's AN/ALQ-211 SIFRC system [PDF] provides detection, analysis and protection against radar-guided threats, including triangulation and GPS geolocation of threats, advance warning that may enable a pilot to route around the threat,...
* The Malaysia armed forces is reportedly planning to spend up to MYR 2.2 billion (about $720 million) for 3 multirole support ships, 2 of which would be built locally, according to BMI. * Australia's Department of Defence cancels A$ 40 million contract with Thales...
As cyber-security becomes a greater focus for militaries around the world, contracts are following. The US Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific in San Diego, CA recently issued a set of multiple award contracts aimed at shaping the USA's cyber-defense and...
Legs togetheron those jumps!(click to view full) Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc. in Tustin, CA receives a maximum $36 million fixed-price with economic price adjustment contract for radiology systems, subsystems and components, on behalf of the US Army, Navy,...
* Swedish defense spending is expected to grow at an anemic 0.36% per year over the next 4 years, reaching $5.4 billion by 2015, according to iCD Research. * Strategy Analytics: US defense semiconductor sector is expected to post 6% compound annual average growth rate...
ARTHUR radar(click to view full) Sweden's Saab Group announced a SEK 450 million (WON 77.04 billion, $69 million) subcontract order from South Korea's LIG Nex1, for more of its ARTHUR artillery tracing radars. South Korea first ordered Saab's Arthur Mod C in 2007, and...