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F-35 Program Achieves New Milestones in 2012
2013-01-14 Read More...
The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Program completed 30 aircraft deliveries and achieved significant advances in flight test highlighting a year of continued progress for

Russian Ships to Start Exercises off the Coast of Syria
2013-01-14 Read More...
Ships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet and Baltic Fleets are to start exercises off the coast of Syria the Russian Defense Ministry said on

Indra’s Maritime Patrol Light Aircraft
2013-01-14 Read More...
Indra has completed the development of an advanced maritime reconnaissance intelligence (MRI) system based on the Tecnam P2006T light

Lockheed Martin Wins PAC-3 Production Contract
2013-01-11 Read More...
Lockheed Martin received a contract totaling $755 million from the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command for hardware and services associated with the combat-proven PATRIOT Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) Missile Segment

Russia, China to Intensify Missile Defense Cooperation
2013-01-11 Read More...
Russia and China are planning to intensify their cooperation on missile defense in response to America’s growing missile defense potential around the globe, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said on

NGC to Modernize US Army Training Centers
2013-01-11 Read More...
The U.S. Army Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation has awarded Northrop Grumman Corporation (NGC) a six-year contract to modernize the existing instrumentation systems at the National Training and the Joint Readiness

Raytheon's Quick Kill™ Defeats a Set of Threats
2013-01-11 Read More...
As the U.S. Army prepares for formal testing to evaluate a system to protect combat vehicles from shoulder-fired and tube-launched Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPGs), Raytheon’s Quick Kill™ Active Protection System (APS) has again shown its maturity

Saab’s Surveillance Systems for Piaggio Aero MPA
2013-01-10 Read More...
The defense and security company Saab recently signed a framework agreement with Italian Piaggio Aero

Russian Navy to Get 50 Warships, 80 Support Ships
2013-01-10 Read More...
The Russian Navy will get over 50 new warships by 2016, including strategic nuclear submarines and special operations support vessels, the Defense Ministry

Telephonics to Provide Radar for MQ-8B UAS
2013-01-10 Read More...
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NGC), under contract to the U.S. Navy, has selected Telephonics Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Griffon Corporation, to provide a multimode maritime radar system for the Navy's MQ-8B Fire Scout vertical

NGC Delivers 2 Global Hawks to U.S. Air Force
2013-01-10 Read More...
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NGC) has completed early delivery of 2 Global Hawk unmanned aircraft to the U.S. Air

Thales to Supply Night Vision Goggles to Gladius Project
2013-01-09 Read More...
As part of the “Gladius” project, Thales has received the sub-contract from Rheinmetall Defence to manufacture and supply 310 night vision goggles of type Lucie II D and 16 IR modules for 30 combat systems of the “Infantry Soldier of the Future”

Russia to Build 3 New Radar Stations
2013-01-09 Read More...
Russia will start building new radar stations of the Voronezh class in three regions this year, spokesman for Russia’s Space Forces Colonel Alexei Zolotukhin

India Selects Airbus Military A330 MRTT
2013-01-08 Read More...
Airbus Military announced it has been selected by the Government of India as the preferred bidder to supply its A330 MRTT Multi Role Tanker Transport to the Indian Air Force

Hagel Named US Defense Secretary; Brennan to Lead CIA
2013-01-08 Read More...
U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday named former Senator Chuck Hagel as his next Defense Secretary and counterterrorism adviser John Brennan to head the CIA, urging the U.S. Senate to confirm them

Northrop’s Cybersecurity Engineers Win Global DOD Title
2013-01-08 Read More...
A four-person team of cyber engineers from Northrop Grumman Corporation won the overall “grand champion” title in the Department of Defense (DOD) Cyber Crime Center's (DC3's) seventh annual Digital Forensics

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