International

By Emelie Rutherford Afghanistan has topped all nations this year in purchases of U.S. weapon systems through the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program, a growing Pentagon operation brokering more sales […]

By Calvin Biesecker SAIC [SAI] on Wednesday posted solid second quarter results led by strong organic growth and record sales and a modest increase in income from continuing operations, which […]

By Calvin Biesecker With fewer than nine months to go before new travel document requirements go into effect at the nation’s land and sea borders, the Department of Homeland Security […]

General Dynamics [GD] Santa Barbara Sistemas Sept. 3 said it was awarded an approximately $102 million contract by the Spanish government to supply RG-31 Mk5E mine protected vehicles for the […]

The Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission last week granted early termination of an anti-trust review period of Italian aerospace and defense company Finmeccanica‘s pending $4 billion acquisition of […]

Australia’s Parliamentary Secretary for Defence Procurement Greg Combet met with the executives of the Northern Territory Australian Industry and Defence Network (AIDN) in Darwin Aug. 24 to discuss the potential […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] recently said that it has completed its acquisition of Tenix Group’s interest in RLM Holdings Pty Ltd, which had been a joint venture between Lockheed Martin and […]

Britain’s Cobham plc said on recently that it has agreed to acquire the Global Microwave Systems (GMS) unit of The Allied Defense Group [ADG] for $26 million in cash in […]

Network integration of fighter aircraft is fast becoming the central effort of the fighter defense industrial base, a top Air Force official on the Joint Strike Fighter program said last […]

The United Kingdom awarded BAE Systems a munitions contract initially worth about US$3.76 billion, the company announced. Over the next 15 years, the contract may grow to be worth approximately […]