* The White House announced the US will not use antipersonnel mines outside of those deployed to protect South Korea, as well as destroy their stockpiles not necessary to defend the peninsula. This aligns the country with most of the requirements of the Ottawa...
Gowind Family(click to view full) In October 2010, Malaysia's Boustead received a letter of intent from their government for 6 "second-generation patrol vessels." In January 2012, South Africa's DefenceWeb reported that DCNS and its local submarine & surface ship...
* The US has been struggling to figure out what to do with its MRAPs in Afghanistan for about a year. The State Department is now confirming that Pakistan is requesting a Foreign Military Sale of 160 MaxxPros for about $198 million, an idea first floated back in...
The Obama administration, including DoD, rolled out their FY2015 budget request on March 4, alongside the release of the new quadrennial defense review (QDR). Even with this year's partial rollback of sequestration, cuts were still on the agenda, but by the end of May...
* A Belgian newspaper reported over the weekend that Belgium's federal prosecutor had foiled several terrorist attacks in past months that had been planned by jihadists coming back from Syria. Another report, from the Het Laatste Nieuws tabloid, alleged that...
IqAF C-208B ISR(click to view full) African countries need counter-insurgency and surveillance aircraft, but they aren't about to buy top-end gear like an AC-130. Embraer's A-29 Super Tucano turboprop trainer and light attack aircraft is about the upper end - a few...
* US Defense Acquisition Undersecretary Frank Kendall previewed [CSIS] this morning the 3rd version of the Better Buying Power set of regulations and guidelines. Kendall wants to maintain American technical superiority in combination with the cost consciousness...
* The US Senate Armed Services Committee released a redacted report [PDF] on repeated Chinese intrusions into US military logistical systems: "Hackers associated with the Chinese government successfully penetrated the computer systems of U.S. Transportation Command...
Boeing CST-100(click to view full) With competition coming at last to American military satellite launches, civilian developments take on new importance. A NASA program called Commercial Crew Integrated Capability (CCiCap) is a major source of potential funds for key...