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Sweden’s defense and security company Saab on Oct. 10 said an unidentified military customer ordered components for the Carl Gustaf man-portable weapons system. The order for the 84mm recoilless rifle is for […]

The Canadian Department of National Defense is embarking on an organization wide, five year–2013-2018–Defense Renewal plan to ensure the best military capabilities at the best value by transforming major business […]

Draper Labs–an independent research laboratory in Cambridge, Mass.–has developed an app that allows soldiers to call in close-air support from a smartphone or tablet, the company said in an interview […]

Raytheon [RTN] has edged out two rivals to win the Navy’s competition to provide the new Air Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) that will be installed on Aegis guided missile destroyers for theater […]

Verizon [VZ] said on Oct. 3 that it has a new dimension to its cloud offerings–the company will now allow its clients to control how individual virtual machines (VM) are deployed.  […]

Curtiss-Wright Corp. [CW] on Oct. 1 said it has acquired Parvus corp. for $38 million in cash, a deal that gives it a position in the rugged computing systems space for […]

The Army has issued a multiple award five-year indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract with an overall ceiling value of $4.1 billion to 12 companies to provide global communication systems for the […]

Lawmakers involved in the defense and intelligence communities said the government shutdown has pulled thousands of intelligence analysts away from their jobs and away from defending against less-than-immediate threats to […]

KEYW Corp. [KEYW] said on Oct. 8 that its new subsidiary Hexis Cyber Solutions has launched a new cyber security product that automatically detects and removes threats from a network. The […]

CACI International [CACI] on Oct. 9 said it has agreed to acquire Six3 Systems, Inc., for $820 million in cash, the largest acquisition in the company’s history and one that will expand […]