The U.S. Department of State has approved a potential $580 million arms package for Norway. Norway’s request includes 16 M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, 15 M30A2 Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System Alternative Warhead pods, 15 M31A2 Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System Unitary high explosive pods and 100 M57 Army Tactical Missile System pods. Lockheed...
Army Lt. Gen. Mark Simerly, director of the Defense Logistics Agency, highlighted the United States’s commitment to ensuring nations in Europe and Africa possess the necessary technologies to address conflicts in remarks during a visit to Europe that ended Wednesday. Simerly met with DLA Europe & Africa senior officials to discuss the teams’ unique logistics...
BAE Systems Hägglunds has placed a $130 million order for Elbit Systems’ Iron Fist active protection systems for installation on a European country’s CV90 infantry fighting vehicles. According to Elbit, the Iron Fist APS is an advanced “hard kill” system designed to provide armored platforms with 360-degree self-defense capabilities against the latest battlefield threats —...
Northrop Grumman has secured a contract from Space Systems Command to build the U.S. base of the Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability project for tracking satellites and debris in geosynchronous orbits. Under the AUKUS trilateral partnership, the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia agreed to host and operate a DARC site to enable allied...
Innovations spurred by generative artificial intelligence took center stage at Amazon Web Services’ Worldwide Public Sector Symposium. At the event in Canberra, Donna Hutchison, executive lead of the Australian Epilepsy Project, highlighted how AWS and generative AI are aiding the development of a platform that integrates multimodal datasets to revolutionize neurological care in Australia. Meanwhile,...
The United States and Australia are testing the Defense Advanced GPS Receiver’s capability to operate in complex situations. To improve the DAGR’s resiliency, experts from the Joint Navigation Warfare and the Australian Joint Positioning, Navigation and Timing Directorate have joined forces to better understand the technology’s requirements. The information gained from the effort will support...
Richard Marles, Australian deputy prime minister and defense minister, has acknowledged challenges in Australia’s trilateral partnership with the United States and the United Kingdom but remains optimistic about its progress. One of the issues Marles raised in an interview with Breaking Defense was the delay in the production of Virginia-class submarines, which represents the...
The top science advisers of the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand have agreed to enhance collaboration on science and technology. In a joint statement, past Wash100 winner Arati Prabhakar, Office of Science and Technology Policy director at the White House, together with Angela McLean, chief scientific adviser to the U.K....
NATO Support and Procurement Agency has tapped Raytheon to deliver Patriot guidance enhanced missiles to Germany under a $478 million contract award, replenishing the stock donated to Ukraine. Preferred by the U.S. armed forces and other governments due to its significant capabilities, the Patriot GEM-T can address tactical ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and enemy drones...
Oracle has launched a second public cloud region in Saudi Arabia, part of the company’s $1.5 billion investment to help advance the kingdom’s cloud infrastructure and artificial intelligence-based economy. The Austin, Texas-based cloud services provider, which already operates a public cloud region in Jeddah, added the new center in Riyadh, with plans to set up...
