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Business/FinancialDefense Growth, Shareholders Will Benefit Mid-Decade From Global Unease, Taiclet Says
Domestic and international defense growth will hit an “inflection point” in two to three years as demand firms up, funding is appropriated, contracts are let and suppliers can meet capacity, […]
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InternationalGDIT Nabs $908 Million Contract To Support U.S. Air Forces In Europe
General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) on Monday said it recently won a potential $908 million contract to provide enterprise information technology support to U.S. Air Forces in Europe. The new […]
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Business/FinancialRaytheon Technologies To Acquire U.K. Space Company
Raytheon Technologies [RTX] on Monday said its United Kingdom-based subsidiary has agreed to acquire another U.K.-based company that specializes in space domain awareness. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. […]
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InternationalAustralian Minister Hopes AUKUS Will Create Seamless Industrial Base
Australia’s defense minister this week said he hopes the AUKUS agreement will help break barriers to create a “seamless” defense industrial base among the U.S., U.K. and Australia as they […]
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InternationalU.S. Approves $500 Million HIMARS Sale With Estonia, $950 Million AMRAAM Missile Deal With Norway
The U.S. State Department has approved a potential $500 million sale of six M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) launchers to Estonia as well as a $950 million deal […]
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CongressHouse Adopts FY ‘23 NDAA Amendment Restricting Sale Of F-16s To Turkey
The House on Thursday voted in favor of adopting an amendment to the next defense policy bill that places restrictions on the U.S.’ ability to export new F-16 fighter jets […]
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Advanced / Transformational TechnologyFuture Warfighting Concepts, Lessons from Ukraine to Figure in Air and Space Chiefs’ Discussion
The Global Air and Space Chiefs Conference this week in London will delve into future warfighting concepts harnessing artificial intelligence/machine learning for kinetic and command and control purposes; quantum computing; […]
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InternationalU.S.’ New $400 Million Weapons Aid For Ukraine Includes More HIMARS, Precision Artillery Ammo
The U.S. has approved another $400 million weapons package for Ukraine, including delivery of additional High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) launchers and a more precise type of 155mm artillery […]
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Navy/USMCFormer BIW President Lesko Appointed President of Canada’s Irving Shipbuilding
Canada’s Irving Shipbuilding Inc. said on July 5 that former former head of General Dynamics’ Bath Iron Works (BIW) [GD] Dirk Lesko was appointed president of the company. Lesko abruptly […]
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Business/FinancialSafran Acquires PNT Solutions Provider Orolia
France’s Safran Group last Friday said it has acquired Orolia, a provider of resilient positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) solutions for aerospace, defense, space and various other critical infrastructure markets. […]