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Army officials hoped to have a decision in hand on its stalled Armed Aerial Scout (AAS) helicopter program in mid-December, when officers briefed vice chief of staff of the Army Gen. Lloyd Austin III on the results of last summer’s visits with potential competitors in the quest to upgrade or replace the service’s aging Kiowa Warrior fleet.
LONDON — The British government is not doing enough to address the military opportunities and vulnerabilities of cybersecurity, the Parliament’s defense committee has warned.
Assembling a new fighter jet requires hundreds of thousands of parts, all aligned perfectly in a time-draining process. Now a Georgia-based company has developed a solution it says will cut that time significantly — and save millions for cash-strapped programs as the Pentagon looks to save money.
TAIPEI — The U.S. military must consider both conventional and nuclear capabilities to “neutralize” China’s underground nuclear weapons storage facilities, according to a Pentagon authorization signed into law.
TOKYO — Japan is considering introducing U.S. spy drones to boost surveillance of its territorial waters near islands in the East China Sea at the centre of a bitter dispute with Beijing, Kyodo News said Dec. 31.
A retired Marine general has left his executive post at a major gun maker to join a defense firm best known for developing nonlethal ammunition.
BERLIN — Saudi Arabia is planning to buy 30 German Dingo 2 armoured vehicles worth about 100 million euros, Bild am Sonntag reported in its Sunday edition.
MELBOURNE — A government-commissioned review examining problems with Australia’s Collins-class submarines found that inadequately designed logistical support arrangements were unable to keep an adequate number of boats at sea.
The effort to design and develop the U.S. Navy’s next ballistic missile submarine got a major boost Friday with the announcement of a nearly $2 billion contract award to General Dynamics.
After months of bad press highlighting leaked internal reports and emails pertaining to persistent issues with the Army’s Defense Common Ground System (DCGS) battlefield intelligence processing software, service officials convened a conference call on Dec.
In an intriguing push against the ever-increasing number of foreign-governments sponsored cyber attacks against U.S. companies, the U.S. Department of Justice intends to turn to its roots with an old-fashioned tactic that has worked against the mafia, drug traffickers and white collar crime: criminal prosecutions.
Not long ago, if your computer network was cut off from the Internet, devoid of wireless routers and hunkered behind locked doors, you were safe.
TEL AVIV — Israel’s Defense Ministry is preparing to launch initial development of Rakiya, a family of light, lethal and self-protected armored vehicles optimized for urban battles beyond 2020.
Now that the U.S. Army’s long-awaited Capability Set 13 is in the hands of two brigade combat teams from the 10th Mountain Division preparing to deploy to Afghanistan, the service is beginning to build out the radio and communication technologies that will be included in Capability Set 14, scheduled to be delivered in 2014.
As U.S. Army budget planners begin to take a first crack at projecting potential budgets out to fiscal 2019 as part of the program objective memorandum (POM) process, the service is starting to identify procurement objectives in the out years.
NEW DELHI — Responding to an earlier U.S. investigation about the possible use of defective parts from China in military equipment, the Indian Defence Ministry has said that no Chinese suppliers were among the companies providing parts to aircraft sold by the United States to India.
Rolls-Royce has completed flight testing for their Series 3.5 T56 engine modification program, a major step for the new engines the company believes could expand the life of the U.S. Air Force's C-130 fleet through 2040.
TEL AVIV — As quiet descended over the skies of Israel and Gaza in late November, it became clear that a new kind of warfare was emerging that could counter an enemy’s asymmetric advantage through a combination of strategic surprise, surgical standoff and active anti-missile defense
The U.S. Air Force plans to equip F-16s with automatic crash avoidance systems by spring 2014, a move expected to save 10 pilots and 14 jets over the lifespan of the aircraft.
WASHINGTON, OTTAWA and ROME — The prospect that Canada may drop the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) entirely and Italy would trim its planned buy of the stealthy jet as Washington think-tanks urge the Pentagon to cut the program is raising concern that the world’s largest and most expensive defense program could be destabilized.
The U.S. Air Force has awarded the contracts for two Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV)-class missions to SpaceX, the first such launches approved for the company.
TEHRAN — Iran’s Revolutionary Guards claimed on Dec. 4 to have “captured” a small U.S. drone over Gulf waters after it entered Iranian airspace on an intelligence-gathering mission.
A U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) directive is warning Army training centers against using unauthorized games, simulators and other training aids.
PARIS, — A prototype of a European combat drone, the Neuron, made its maiden flight Saturday from a base in the south of France, project leader Dassault Aviation announced.
For months, the Pentagon has been trying to put in place a new contract to support a “vital” program that gathers intelligence on high-value terror targets and on terrorist finance, according to contracting records released Wednesday.
WASHINGTON — Syrian rebels have recently obtained up to 40 shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles, the Washington Post reported Nov. 29, citing Western and Middle Eastern intelligence officials.
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan test-fired its Ghauri/Hatf-V (Vengeance V) medium-range ballistic missile Nov. 28, a liquid-fueled missile that some observers say is not well-suited to Pakistan’s needs.
BONN —- Two Modular, Automatic and Network-capable Targeting and Interception Systems (MANTIS) have been formally delivered to the German Air Force on Nov. 26. Developed and produced by Rheinmetall Air Defence, a Swiss subsidiary of Germany’s Rheinmetall, MANTIS is designed for 24/7 range protection against rockets, artillery shells or mortar rounds.
The U.S. Defense Department has issued a new directive on the use of autonomous and semi-autonomous weapon systems, an attempt to regulate a technology that officials say could be years from becoming reality.
VICTORIA, British Columbia — Soldiers faced with carrying too many heavy batteries needed to run their equipment could be getting a lightweight mechanical knee brace that generates power while they’re on the move.
Weapons have changed drastically over the past 30 years, but the cameras on U.S. Army test ranges have not. So the service is preparing to upgrade the kineto-tracking mounts — the squat turrets that look like R2D2 from “Star Wars,” if cameras were mounted on his head.
NEW YORK — Hollywood-style robots able to shoot people without permission from their human handlers are a real possibility and must be banned before governments start deploying them, Human Rights Watch warned Nov. 19.
BEERSHEVA, Israel — Iron Dome, Israel’s much vaunted anti-missile defense system, is playing an increasingly important role in the growing confrontation between the Jewish state and Gaza-based militants.
The U.S. Marines will christen their first F-35B squad on Nov. 20, in what is being called a sign of “forward progress” with the most expensive military program in U.S. history.
The Senate on Wednesday failed to pass cybersecurity legislation that would set voluntary security standards for owners of critical infrastructure, such as dams, energy and water systems.
LONDON — The Royal Thai Army has purchased Thales UK’s Starstreak air defense missile. The deal was announced during a visit to London by Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra.
When cybersecurity legislation failed a key procedural hurdle in the U.S. Senate this fall, experts said immediate widespread improvement of networks was unlikely.
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