Defense Daily International

The NATO Communications and Information (NCI) Agency announced March 27 it will be putting 40 contracts out to tender in the following 18 to 24 months as part of a […]

U.S. forces plan to keep a close eye on China’s new naval base in Djibouti because it is just a few miles from an important American base, according to a […]

The Israeli Ministry of Defense awarded Israel’s Elbit Systems Ltd. [ESLT] a contract worth about $100 million to supply advanced radio systems, the company said March 22. Under the contract […]

Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence selected Orbital ATK’s [OA] MK44 Bushmaster Chain Gun to arm the Lithuanian Army’s new Vilkas 8×8 infantry fighting vehicles, the company said March 16. Under […]

The NATO Communication and Information (NCI) Agency signed an agreement with U.S. Army Europe to increase NATO’s support for U.S. deployments in Eastern Europe, the agency said March 16. Under […]

The State Department approved a possible $150 million Foreign Military Sales (FMS) request to the United Kingdom for Hellfire missiles and related support services. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) […]

Defense Secretary James Mattis on March 22 endorsed the Pentagon’s European Reassurance Initiative. “If we don’t have the funding to maintain (ERI), then, frankly, the reassurance goes away,” Mattis told […]

If members of NATO achieve their pledges to achieve defense spending levels that reflect the size of their respective economies, that could mean as much as $100 billion annually in […]