Orizzonte Sistemi Navali, a joint venture of Fincantieri and Leonardo, has secured a $1.6 billion contract to build two Italian Navy warships through FREMM, a European multipurpose frigate program. According to a Naval News report, the Italian Navy has ramped up its modernization activities over the past 10 years, and Fincantieri is involved in most of...
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US Seeks to Modernize Alliance Command and Control in Japan; Lloyd Austin Quoted
The United States plans to convert U.S. Forces Japan into a joint force headquarters and expand U.S.-Japan missile co-production. The planned conversion was announced following the conclusion of the U.S.-Japan Security Consultative Committee’s ministerial conference in Tokyo on Sunday. U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, a Wash100 awardee, described updating the alliance command and control as...
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NATO Awards Contracts on Platform Concept Studies for Next-Generation Helicopters; Stacy Cummings Quoted
The NATO Support and Procurement Agency has awarded separate contracts to three teams led by Airbus Helicopters, Lockheed Martin Sikorsky and Leonardo to undertake a concept study on the design and execution of the Next Generation Rotorcraft Capability program. NGRC is geared to replace the military alliance’s helicopters by the mid-2030s. NSPA said in a...
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FDH Aero Joins South Korea in Space Exploration Efforts; Cody Ho Quoted
Commerce, California-based FDH Aero said it has entered into a memorandum of understanding with the city of Sacheon in South Korea to jointly support the country’s space exploration goals established under the Korea AeroSpace Administration. Launched in May, the Sacheon-based KASA aims to accomplish moon and Mars landings in the next two decades and develop...
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Greece Advances Allied Interoperability With Lockheed F-35 Purchase, Bridget Lauderdale Quoted
The Greek government has signed a letter of offer and acceptance for the purchase of 20 Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II aircraft through a U.S. foreign military sale, with an optional 20 additional F-35s. Washington approved the sale, valued at $8.6 billion, in January. Bridget Lauderdale, Lockheed Martin’s vice president and F-35 program general manager,...
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Lockheed Martin Boosts Global Supply Chain With Radar Parts From Spain; Amr Hussein Quoted
Lockheed Martin has ordered AN/SPY-7(V)2 radar parts from three Spanish companies – Indra, Escribano Mechanical and Engineering and Integral de Conexión y Montajes – to enhance the global supply chain for the F-110 frigate it is building for Spain’s naval forces. Amr Hussein, Lockheed Martin vice president and general manager of multi-domain combat solutions, said...
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Hensoldt Creates Multi-Domain Solutions Unit Under New Operational Setup; Oliver Dorre Quoted
Germany-based defense contractor Hensoldt has announced an organizational streamlining, which calls for establishing a multi-domain solutions division integrating the capabilities of its newly acquired company, system integrator ESG Elektroniksystem- und Logistik. The company completed the ESG transaction in April. The new division will merge ESG with Hensoldt’s spectrum dominance and airborne solutions divisions to serve...
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BAE Systems to Demo Airborne Combat Simulation on RAF Hawk Training Aircraft
BAE Systems will hold an in-flight demonstration of the Advanced Tactical Augmented Reality Systems on a Hawk TMk2 training aircraft of the U.K. Royal Air Force in 2024. ATARS offers synthetic training for fighter pilots to track and engage virtual foes programmed for combat and other hostile activities. The platform’s systems, developed by U.S. technology...
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US Eyes Military Sustainment Centers in Five Indo-Pacific Allied Countries; Christopher Lowman Quoted
The U.S. Department of Defense is looking to start working with five Indo-Pacific allies on building military maintenance, repair and overhaul capabilities under a regional framework that it plans to develop and launch across its overseas commands. Christopher Lowman, assistant secretary of defense for sustainment, said in a Pentagon briefing Thursday that the regional sustainment...
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LeoLabs Joins UK’s Tyche Space-Based Reconnaissance Program; Tony Frazier Quoted
The United Kingdom Space Command will utilize LeoLabs’ space situational awareness services for its low Earth orbit research and development satellite, Tyche, scheduled for a summer launch. According to a LeoLabs announcement, the 150-kilogram demo spacecraft is part of the U.K.’s ISTARI program on a LEO constellation for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. LeoLabs CEO Tony...