OSI Maritime Systems (OSI) is pleased to announce the signing of a contract to integrate its flagship software, ECPINS-W Sub, into the UK Royal Navy’s T45 Destroyer Integrated Bridge System (IBS). Under the terms of this contract, OSI will provide software engineering activity to fully integrate ECPINS into the existing IBS system architecture. OSI supplies […]

DYESS AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFNS) — The 317th Airlift Group held a dedication ceremony for a new C-130J Super Hercules simulator here April 22, 2014. Dyess AFB is the first installation to receive the $26 million C-130J simulator with modern Vital-10 technology. Vital-10 is an advanced visual display package with a higher resolution and […]

A new image from NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is the first ever from the surface of Mars to show an asteroid, and it shows two: Ceres and Vesta. These two — the largest and third-largest bodies in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter — are the destinations of NASA’s Dawn mission. Dawn orbited Vesta […]

Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) an international communications and information technology company, has successfully completed the next in a series of interoperability tests for the Falcon III® AN/PRC-117G multiband manpack radio hosting the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) waveform. MUOS is the next-generation U.S. Department of Defense military communications system for delivering satellite-based voice and data communication […]

Under a new four-year contract from the U.S. Air Force, Boeing [NYSE: BA] will provide maintenance, engineering, training and support for the system that enables the rescue of downed pilots and other warfighters in danger. The Combat Survivor Evader Locator (CSEL) program’s first multi-year logistics contract is valued at $32.5 million in total. A global […]

The successful first public flight of the electric E-Fan experimental aircraft was the highlight of Airbus Group’s E-Aircraft Day in Bordeaux, France. The flight demonstration was attended by Arnaud Montebourg, French Minister for Economy, Industrial Renewal and Digital Economy, Alain Rousset, President of the Aquitaine Region, Josy Reiffers, who represented Alain Juppé, President of the […]

Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) today announced the latest developments found in their new SureView™ release, which include new policy support features that enhance product capability for continuous monitoring and network auditing against insider threat and privileged user abuse. With this release, commercial and federal organizations now have access to a Privileged User Monitoring and Auditing […]

Airbus Defence and Space, the world’s number one exporter of Earth observation satellites and the world’s second largest space company, has just been selected as sole prime contractor to develop, construct and launch the first Earth observation optical satellite system for Peru, with the support of the French government. The system includes a latest-generation optical […]

Cubic Corporation (NYSE: CUB) announced today it was awarded a contract valued at more than $11 million to provide air combat training support to a long-time Middle East customer at multiple sites. The prime contract covers operation, maintenance, logistics support, and management of air combat maneuvering systems (ACMI), as well as the training necessary to […]

On behalf of a German systems supplier, the Jenoptik Defense & Civil Systems division will equip military land vehicles with turret and weapon stabilization systems and with 17-kW Auxiliary Power Units. Jenoptik received the two orders, worth 13.5 million euros in total, from Rheinmetall, a leading German manufacturer of security and defense technology. Until the […]

The Proton Breeze M launch vehicle successfully placed the KazSat-3 and Luch-5V satellites for the Russian Federal Government into geostationary orbit today. The vehicle lifted off at 8:25 a.m. Moscow time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The dual launch was the 8th successful consecutive launch of Proton since September 2013 and the third launch […]

BAE Systems has received a multi-ship, multi-option (MSMO) contract from the U.S. Navy to repair, maintain, and modernize nine destroyers and cruisers, either homeported in or visiting Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The five-year contract, awarded by the Naval Sea Systems Command, includes modernization, maintenance, and repair work for the USS Chafee, USS John Paul Jones, USS […]