International
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Air ForceAirbus Qualifies To Bid On Air Force Military Communications On Commercial Satellites
Airbus Defense and Space Monday said it has been awarded an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract valued up to $500 million to provide services related to hosting United States Air Force […]
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Air ForcePANAMAX 2014 Kicks Off With 16 Partner Nations
The United States and 16 partner nations with a total of about 500 military and civilian personnel began the annual PANAMAX 2014 exercise on Friday. The U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM)-sponsored […]
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InternationalJapan Issues Annual Defense White Paper, Plans New Ground, Maritime, Air Assets
Japan’s annual white paper on defense released this week concludes there is an “increasingly severe” security environment in the Asia-Pacific and proposes reorganizing ground forces and adding capabilities to the […]
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InternationalBoeing Receives $250 Million To Upgrade NATO AWACS
Boeing [BA] received a NATO contract valued at about $250 million to install digital flight decks and avionics on 13 of the alliance’s Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft, […]
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ArmyPraise, Condolences For Maj. Gen. Harold Greene, Killed In Afghanistan
Tributes and condolences poured in from Army officials and others for the family of Maj. Gen. Harold Greene, the highest ranking officer killed in combat since the Vietnam War and […]
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InternationalNexter, CILAS Plan Joint Research On Developing Platform-based Laser Weapons
French firms Nexter Systems and CILAS signed a letter of intent in mid-June for joint research work on the development of platform-based laser weapons. This is an opportunity for Nexter, […]
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ArmyDynCorp International To Provide Radio Support to Army In Kosovo
DynCorp International will provide land mobile radio support in Kosovo under a potential $978,000 contract issued by the U.S. Army with one base year and two, six month options. The […]
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Business/FinancialBAE To Acquire Small U.S. Firm With Imaging, Analytics Capabilities
Britain’s BAE Systems on Thursday said it agreed to acquire Signal Innovations Group, Inc. (SIG), a provider of imaging technologies and analytics to the United States intelligence and defense markets. […]
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InternationalNATO “Not Well Prepared” For Russian Threat: UK Defense Committee
NATO is “poorly prepared” for either a conventional or asymmetric attack on a member state in the Baltics, a new United Kingdom report says, while calling on the NATO September […]
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InternationalIraq Requests $700 Million FMS For 5,000 Hellfire Missiles
The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) notified Congress July 28 that the State Department approved a possible $700 million Foreign Military Sale to Iraq for AGM-114K/N/R Hellfire missiles and associated […]