International
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InternationalNew Zealand Super Fund To Divest From Cluster-Munition Makers
Disarmament and Arms Control Minister Phil Goff welcomes the New Zealand Superannuation Fund’s announcement today that it would divest from companies involved in the production of cluster munitions once a […]
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Business/FinancialCanada Rebuffs ATK’s Attempt To Acquire MDA’s Space Business
By Calvin Biesecker Alliant Techsystems’ [ATK] plans to bolster its capabilities and offerings for the space market took a hit this week when Canada rejected the company’s pending $1.3 billion […]
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InternationalTurkey To Spend $227 Million For Six MK 41 VLS
Turkey is looking to buy six Lockheed Martin [LMT] MK 41 Vertical Launch Systems (VLS) as well as associated equipment and services, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) recently said. […]
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InternationalNATO Agencies Forge Closer Ties Moving Forward on Interoperability, Transformation
NATO Standardization Agency (NSA) Director Vice Adm. Juan Moreno and the Chief of Staff NATO Allied Command Transformation (ACT) Lt. Gen. Jan Arp March 3 signed a letter of agreement […]
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Air ForceJSF Officials Optimistic On Foreign Partners, Welcome Report On Cost Stability
Officials steering the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program said signs are good for Japan joining the aircraft effort, and predicted partner nations Norway and Denmark will not drop their […]
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Business/FinancialTurkey To Spend $227 Million For Six MK 41 VLS
Turkey is looking to buy six Lockheed Martin [LMT] MK 41 Vertical Launch Systems (VLS) as well as associated equipment and services, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) said yesterday. […]
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Business/FinancialU.K. To Spend $125 Million For 157 Category I MRAPs
The United Kingdom is looking to spend upward of $125 million for 157 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles as well as associated equipment and services, the Defense Security Cooperation […]
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Business/FinancialFLIR Acquires Spanish Sensor Networking Firm
FLIR Systems [FLIR] on Tuesday said it has acquired Spain’s Ifara Tecnologias, a developer and supplier of middleware and client application software used to network sensor systems, for $11.1 million […]
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Homeland Security
Most Denial of Service Attacks Targeted U.S. In Late 2007, Symantec Report Say
More than 50 percent of denial of service attacks were targeted against computers in the United States in the second half of 2007, according to a new report by the […]
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CongressGriffin: A Troubled U.S. Space Program Faces ‘Silent Sputnik’-America May Lose Long-Held Leadership On The High Frontier
His Warning Sounded As European Robotic Cargo Spaceship Automatically Docks At International Space Station; Griffin Hails Europe As ‘Full-Fledged Space Power’ Mikulski Renews Efforts To Add $1 Billion NASA Recovery […]