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The development and test phase of the NATO-Russia Stand-off Detection of Explosives (STANDEX) program is complete, NATO officials said. Four years of cooperation on STANDEX between NATO and Russian scientists has […]

The first six of some 30 AH-64E Apache attack helicopters produced by Boeing [BA] have arrived in Taiwan under a $2 billion deal under then-President George W. Bush that included other defense […]

Raytheon [RTN] on Nov. 5 said the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) successfully completed another series of test firings of Raytheon’s Patriot Air and Missile Defense System at McGregor Range, N.M. […]

U.K. firms Development Engineering and Enterprise Ltd (DEE-Ltd) and Enhanced Protection Systems Ltd. (EPS) Nov. 5 said they have formed a new joint venture, Ascender Vehicles Limited. The new organization is expected to bring […]

The tri-national German, Italian and United States’ Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) on Nov. 6 intercepted and destroyed two simultaneous targets attacking from opposite directions during a stressing demonstration […]

U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron is closing Portsmouth shipyard in “the national interest,” putting 940 shipyard workers out of work in 2014 at BAE Systems naval ships systems business. In all, BAE […]

Smiths Detection has protested the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) award in late September of a contract to a competitor for new X-Ray systems for use in screening carry-on bags at […]

Following its selection in August to compete for task orders under a cyber security program for the federal government and other entities that is being overseen by the Department of […]

OSI Systems [OSIS]                                     1Q14               1Q13               Sales                            $206.3M          $181.7M Net Inc.                       $6.4M, 0.31     $6.3M, 0.3 Net income remained flat as restructuring charges—mainly having to do with a move of the […]

DHS Plans to Grant Exclusive License to NIHS for Unified Incident Command Software The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science & Technology (S&T) Directorate has issued a Notice of Intent […]