International
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Business/FinancialShift In European Missile Defense Plan Opens Door For New Uses For Ship-Based BMD
By Geoff Fein The administration’s decision to shift its missile defense policy for Europe away from a land-based system has allowed for the Navy to examine using its ship-based ballistic […]
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Business/FinancialDefense Industrial Base Not Vulnerable To Foreign Suppliers, Pentagon Says
The Defense Department uses relatively few items and components from foreign suppliers and is not vulnerable to foreign sources of supply, according to a recent report from the Pentagon’s Industrial […]
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Business/FinancialQinetiQ’s Profits Tumble Despite Sales Increase
Britain’s QinetiQ on Wednesday posted six-month results that showed a sharp drop in net income due to a spike in amortization expenses and several non-recurring costs and the company warned […]
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InternationalStork Aerospace Moves To Group Name: Fokker Aerospace Group
The group name Stork Aerospace is now changed to Fokker Aerospace Group, 90 years after Anthony Fokker started the Nederlandsche Vliegtuigenfabriek (Dutch aircraft factory) to strengthen the market presence of […]
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InternationalThalesRaytheonSystems Moves Another Step Toward New NATO C2 System
ThalesRaytheonSystems, a joint venture between Raytheon [RTN] and Thales Group, recently announced it successfully completed its latest in a series of tests of the NATO Air Command and Control System […]
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InternationalAustralia Pushing Ahead With Defense Procurement Reform
Australia has made a good start, but must continue to strive for defense procurement reform in a time of economic restraint, the Minister for Defence Personnel, Materiel and Science said. […]
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InternationalATK Awarded Contract For Non-NATO Weapons For Afghanistan
ATK [ATK] has been awarded a $21 million contract by the U.S. Army Aberdeen Contracting Center at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., to supply various types of non-standard (non-NATO) weapon systems […]
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InternationalOshkosh To Supply Egypt With Heavy Equipment Transporters
Oshkosh Corp. [OSK] received a contract valued at $20 million from the U.S. Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command Life Cycle Management Command (TACOM LCMC) to supply more than 40 new […]
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InternationalIraqi Airmen Score Bull’s Eye With Hellfire Missile Shoot
For the first time since the Iraqi air force was reconstituted, an Iraqi pilot fired a missile from an aircraft–scoring a bull’s eye, Multi-National Security Transition Command-Iraq (MNSTC-I) said last […]
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InternationalBAE Systems Submits Bid For Warrior Fighting Vehicle Upgrades
BAE Systems Nov. 17 submitted its bid for the potential $1.67 billion Warrior Capability Sustainment Program, to upgrade the fleet of British Army Warrior infantry fighting vehicles. The bid, submitted […]