international

President Donald Trump directed the secretary of defense to revert aircraft carriers to steam-powered aircraft catapult launchers and hydraulic weapons elevators, consider foreign-built warships, and establish a fifth public shipyard […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] won a $19 million two-year contract from the Australian Submarine Agency (ASA) to create their own Combat Systems Integration (CSI) capability for the upcoming Virginia‑class submarines the […]

HII’s [HII] Ingalls Shipbuilding Division on Monday announced it was expanding its use of outsourcing to include modular construction on amphibious warships, starting with the future USS Philadelphia (LPD-32) San […]

Saronic announced a new strategic partnership with South Korea’s Samsung Heavy Industries on Thursday to help accelerate development of autonomy-capable maritime systems and technologies that aim to improve the U.S. […]

The Navy recently awarded CoAspire a $70 million prototype Other Transaction Agreement (OTA) for its Rapidly Adaptable Affordable Cruise Missile-Extended Range (RAACM-ER) ground-launched variant for its new Coalition Heterogeneous Affordable […]

Britain’s autonomous defense system manufacturer UFORCE signed a memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with American Special Operations craft manufacturer ReconCraft on Tuesday to provide advanced autonomous surface vessels (ASV) to the […]

Airbus Defense and Space, the Netherlands’ Destinus, MBDA Deutschland, France’s Safran Electronics & Defense, and Thales on July 14 signed a letter of Intent (LOI) to establish a new consortium […]

The United Kingdom on Monday announced plans to replace a planned destroyer with a new drone controller ship instead, the Common Combat Vessels (CCV). The U.K. Ministry of Defence previously […]

Naval Air Systems Command on June 26 awarded RTX [RTX] a contract modification worth over $1.1 billion for production and delivery of nearly 2,000 IM-9X Sidewinder missiles for the U.S. […]

MDA Space is acquiring spacecraft manufacturer Blue Canyon Technologies from Raytheon [RTX] to give the company a direct position in the U.S. defense market. The acquisition will give the Canadian space company a “strategic […]