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  1. Thales introduced GeoMux, a new VHF waveform providing simultaneously three main services - Voice, Data and Blue Force Tracking - answering perfectly the interoperability requirement of modern Battlefield Management Systems (BMS).
  2. Raytheon Company completed its first Configuration-3 Patriot radar upgrade for the State of Kuwait. This is the first of six radar modernization deliveries due under contract to the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command.
  3. Mustafa Abdul Jalil, Chairman of Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC), appointed Yousef al-Manqoush as Head of the Armed Forces in the first significant move to build a new Libyan military and warned that the country could descend into a...
  4. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded Pratt & Whitney an undefinitized contract award (UCA) not to exceed $1,122,306,649 for F135 production engines to power the F-35 Lightning II.
  5. Lebanon will host this month a U.N. conference on “Democracy in the Arab World”, with a slew of high-level dignitaries, including U.N. Chief Ban Ki-moon, due to attend, organizers and Lebanese officials said.
  6. ITT Exelis has successfully installed and tested a pod-mounted, advanced self-defense electronic warfare system on F-16 aircraft operated by an international customer.
  7. The Pentagon said it was not seeking a confrontation with Iran over transit in the Strait of Hormuz, even as it dismissed an Iranian military threat meant to keep US aircraft carriers out of the Gulf.
  8. The recently announced $29.4 billion sale of F-15SA fighter aircraft to Saudi Arabia is just one part of a broader U.S.-Saudi military sales and defense cooperation effort that's central to regional security, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little...
  9. Raytheon Company has acquired privately held Henggeler Computer Consultants, Inc., further extending Raytheon's capabilities to serve the cybersecurity, enterprise architecture and systems engineering needs of customers in the intelligence...
  10. Boeing and industry partner Northrop Grumman Corporation (NGC) received the development and sustainment contract (DSC) from the U.S. Missile Defense Agency for future work on the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) element of the United States'...
 



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