* French President François Hollande announced his country would send weapons to Iraq's Kurds "within hours". The question is whether they will be the arms the Kurds need: protected patrol vehicles and anti-tank missiles. More small arms won't make a difference....
CP-140 Aurora(click to view full) The CP-140 Aurora is a 'Canadianized' variant of the P-3 Orion aircraft used in the maritime surveillance role by the USA and many other countries. Like their fellow P-3s around the world, however, the Auroras have flown very long...
* DARPA intends to spend [FBO] about $42M on its Biological Robustness in Complex Settings (BRICS) program, whose purpose is to make synthetic life viable outside of strictly controlled lab environments. Though there are many potential applications - including in the...
* Chris Chadwick, head of Boeing's defense and space division, told Reuters that he expected at least two thirds of an expected $6B in cost cutting to come from the supply chain. Suppliers, it's time to cower! * BAE is divesting itself of its South African land...
* Russia looks to China [Izvestia / RIA] to get military components it won't be able to buy from the West. * Russia will be keeping [ITAR-TASS] its MiG-31 Foxhound interceptors in service for another 15 years. Their radar size and missile capacity makes them very...
Searcher II with SAR(click to view full) Since 2007, we've been treated to ongoing speculation about Syria buying Russian weapons with Iranian financing, including reports of MiG-31 and MiG-29 fighters. Some reports even placed the Islamic Republic of Iran as the...
* President Obama authorized targeted airstrikes against ISIL insurgents in Iraq, as well as humanitarian assistance to civilians stranded on a mountain. British Prime Minister David Cameron is "extremely concerned" by the situation in the country and "utterly...
* The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is to award a sole source contract to Raytheon/BBN, SRI, and Leidos for Phases 4 and 5 of its Robust Automatic Transcription of Speech (RATS) program, whose purpose is to detect speech in very noisy environments. Does...
What is it good for?(click to view full) The Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) program began in 1995, and it has taken a very long time. Its MoU was late, its contract will be both late and smaller in scope, and it won't meet even a revised 2012 - 2014 fielding...