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- USAF Conducted IPOP Exercise For F-35 | Saab Delivered 4th GlobalEye To UAE |...by Emily Erhold on April 28, 2024 at 7:00 am
Americas Northrop Grumman Systems won an $8 million order provides engineering and logistics sustainment support in support of the E-2D Hawkeye aircraft transition from production to sustainment. Work will be performed in Melbourne, Florida and is expected to be completed in April 2025. Naval Air […]
- Raytheon Tapped For Advanced Hawkeye | British Helicopters To Exercise With...by Emily Erhold on April 26, 2024 at 4:00 am
Americas Raytheon won a $8,8 million deal for the procurement of 11 receiver mainframe assemblies in support of the E2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft. The contract does not include options. All work will be performed in El Segundo, California. Work is expected to be completed by April 2027. Naval […]
- E-2D Hawkeye: The Navy’s New AWACSby Joe Katzman on April 26, 2024 at 3:58 am
(click to view full) Northrop Grumman’s E-2C Hawkeye is a carrier-capable “mini-AWACS” aircraft, designed to give long-range warning of incoming aerial threats. Secondary roles include strike command and control, land and maritime surveillance, search and rescue, communications relay, and […]
- Lockheed Tapped For AEGIS Updates | MSI Drones To Help US Forces In The Middle...by Emily Erhold on April 25, 2024 at 4:00 am
Americas Northrop Grumman won a $9 million modification to a previously awarded fixed-price incentive (firm-target), cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost reimbursable contract. This modification increases the contract ceiling to procure the necessary hardware and associated technical engineering, management […]
- Serious Dollars for AEGIS Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD)by Joe Katzman on April 25, 2024 at 3:58 am
AEGIS-BMD: CG-70 launches SM-3 (click to view full) The AEGIS Ballistic Missile Defense System seamlessly integrates the SPY-1 radar, the MK 41 Vertical Launching System for missiles, the SM-3 Standard missile, and the ship’s command and control system, in order to give ships the ability to […]
- Raytheon Tapped For Zumwalt Modernization | Iran Unveiled Bavar-373 | Spain...by Emily Erhold on April 24, 2024 at 4:00 am
Americas Raytheon Missiles & Defense won a $212.5 million for an option exercise of combat system engineering, miscellaneous material, and travel supporting combat system installation, integration, development, testing, correction, maintenance, and modernization of ZUMWALT class mission systems […]
- The USA’s DDG-1000 Zumwalt Class Program: Dead Aim, Or Dead End?by Joe Katzman on April 24, 2024 at 3:58 am
67% of the fleet (click to view full) DID’s FOCUS Article for the DDG-1000 Zumwalt Class “destroyer” program covers the new ships’ capabilities and technologies, key controversies, associated contracts and costs, and related background resources. The ship’s prime missions are to provide […]
- Flexible G/ATORs: The USMC’s Multi-Mission AESA Ground Radarsby Joe Katzman on April 24, 2024 at 3:56 am
G/ATOR diorama (click to view full) The US military’s long run of unquestioned air superiority has led to shortcuts in mobile land-based air defenses, and the US Marines are no exception. A December 2005 release from Sen. Schumer’s office [D-NY] said that: “Current radar performance does not […]
- DoS Approved BT-67 FMS To Argentina | Lithuania To Spend $16M For Ukraine...by Emily Erhold on April 23, 2024 at 4:00 am
Americas Lockheed Martin won an $88.3 million Captains of Industry contract for the overhaul of B-2 digital receiver and legacy defense message system. This contract provides for overhaul, management, and material lay-in. Work will be performed at Owego, New York, and is expected to be completed by […]
- USA’s B-2 Bombers Leading the Way in Contracting for Availabilityby Joe Katzman on April 23, 2024 at 3:58 am
All together now… (click to view full) Britain’s practice of “contracting for availability” for key equipment, rather than paying for spare parts and maintenance hours, may be its most significant defense procurement reform. In a world where older air, sea, and ground vehicle fleets are […]
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- Climate activist who allegedly defaced sculpture at National Gallery of Art...on April 28, 2024 at 3:53 am
A climate activist who smeared paint on the protective case of Edgar Degas' "Little Dancer Aged Fourteen" sculpture at Washington, D.C.’s National Gallery of Art was charged.
- British tourist has hand, thigh severed after being mauled by bull shark in...on April 28, 2024 at 1:12 am
A 64-year-old British tourist is in a "stable" condition after he was mauled by a bull shark in the Caribbean Island of Tobago.
- Putin likely didn’t intend for Navalny to die in February, US intelligence...on April 28, 2024 at 12:40 am
U.S. intelligence agencies have assessed that Russian President Vladimir Putin likely did not order Alexei Navalny's death when he collapsed and died in February, according to a report.
- Russian troops went on drunken killing spree in occupied Ukraine: reportson April 27, 2024 at 5:47 pm
The Kherson region, which remains partially under Russian occupation, has allegedly suffered abuses under the reign of Moscow, with troops targeting marginalized populations.
- Israel debunks 'Hamas libels' about mass grave spread by media for internet...on April 27, 2024 at 4:54 pm
Amid Israel’s campaign to root out Hamas terrorists in Gaza, the terrorist organization is stoking “disinformation" to hoodwink the international community, claim critics.
- Tehran 'religiously' broadcasting anti-Israel unrest at US schools for...on April 27, 2024 at 4:36 pm
The protests have sprung up at Ivy League universities and seemingly spread to other universities, but experts allege the movements have appeared by design and not as grassroots campaigns.
- Italian PM Meloni ally fires back against criticism says policies the same but...on April 27, 2024 at 10:00 am
In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, Italian Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Edmondo Cirielli defended Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and discussed birth rates, migrants, China and Iran.
- UN warns Sudan paramilitary forces are encircling a capital in western Darfur,...on April 27, 2024 at 1:27 am
The United Nations has said Sudanese paramilitary forces are encircling the city of El Fasher in the western Darfur region, and warned that 'an attack would have devastating consequences.'
- Orca calf swims out of Canadian lagoon where it had been trapped more than a...on April 27, 2024 at 12:59 am
A 2-year-old killer whale has reached an inlet that could take it to the open ocean, after being trapped in a lagoon on Vancouver Island for more than a month.
- Hacktivist group claims it infiltrated Belarus security agencyon April 26, 2024 at 11:23 pm
A Belarusian hacktivist group claims it has breached the country's main KGB security agency and accessed the personnel files of over 8,000 employees.