International

By Emelie Rutherford As Iraq rebuilds its army into a lean force, it will seek additional U.S.-brokered arms sales in the next few years, and will focus on buying the […]

The major presidential candidates are welcoming word of a possible Pentagon-brokered $6.4 billion arms sale to Taiwan, with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) calling for the deal to include even more […]

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is making progress in complying with federal security regulations for information security, although component agencies are still not implementing all of the department’s policies, […]

By Calvin Biesecker France’s SAFRAN Group yesterday said it has agreed to acquire the biometrics business of Motorola [MOT] in a deal that would expand its already robust fingerprint matching […]

Curtiss-Wright [CW] yesterday said its Controls business unit has acquired Norway-based VMETRO for $72 million, boosting its position in embedded computer products for aerospace, defense, industrial, communications and medical markets. […]

The pending acquisition of DRS Technologies [DRS] by Italy’s Finmeccanica has received approval from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), moving the deal one big step […]

By Geoff Fein The Navy is continuing to explore its options to remedy a strike fighter shortfall projected to occur in the next nine years, as well as examining upgrades […]

By Calvin Biesecker ATLANTA–In its own testing Smiths Detection has demonstrated that its HI-SCAN 6040aTiX X-Ray system can distinguish between innocent liquids and "liquids of interest" as part of its […]

Pyongyang Developing Small Nuclear Weapon To Fit Atop Its Missiles North Korea fired missiles into the Yellow Sea, as the isolated regime separately is developing smaller-sized nuclear weapons as warheads […]

Both the Democratic and Republican U.S. presidential candidates condemned Iranian moves to produce nuclear weapons, saying that would pose a grave threat to the existence of Israel. Sen. Barack Obama […]