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Kongsberg Secures Fourth Joint Strike Missile Contract With Japan

Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace has signed a fourth contract with Japan worth $173.2 million to supply the Joint Strike Missile. According to Kongsberg, the fifth-generation stealth air-to-surface missile, designed for anti-surface warfare and land attacks, will be deployed in Tokyo’s F-35A Lightning II fleet, enhancing its agility, range and low-signature capabilities. Japan first ordered the...

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Northrop-Exence E-2D Partnership Seeks to Empower Poland’s Command and Control Capabilities

Northrop Grumman is partnering with Polish IT services provider Exence and the Polish Air Force Institute of Technology to help expand the command and control capabilities of Poland’s armed forces while ensuring interoperability with NATO and other allies. The collaboration will explore how the Northrop E-2D Advanced Hawkeye tactical airborne early warning aircraft could be...

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BAE Systems to Deliver 40 Mk4 Naval Gun Systems to Dutch, Belgian Navies

British defense contractor BAE Systems will deliver eight Bofors 40 Mk4 naval gun systems to the Netherlands and Belgium under a new contract from the Dutch Command Materiel and IT, an agency under the Dutch Ministry of Defence. Stefan Lofstrom, marketing and sales director at BAE Systems Bofors, said the new deal allows the company...

SSTL Secures $50M UK MOD Contract to Build ISR Satellite
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SSTL Secures $50M UK MOD Contract to Build ISR Satellite

The U.K. Ministry of Defence has awarded a $51.95 million contract to Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd to build an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance satellite under the MINERVA technology and innovation program of the U.K. Space Command’s $1.26 billion ISTARI project. Called Juno, the spacecraft will be the second satellite of a constellation the British defense...

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Disarmament Organizations List Benefits, Concerns Over Access to AI, Other Emerging Technologies

Representatives of United Nations-adjacent disarmament agencies have highlighted the benefits of and concerns over the accessibility of artificial intelligence, unmanned systems and other emerging technologies. On the sidelines of a recent meeting of the United Nations General Assembly’s First Committee, Hong Li of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons highlighted how large language...

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Cognyte to Provide EMEA Customer With AI, Analytics Capabilities

A national security agency in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region has entered into a $20 million deal with Cognyte Software to continue using the company’s advanced artificial intelligence and investigative analytics capabilities for a year. According to Cognyte, the agency is a longstanding customer, responsible for protecting national interests and assets and the...

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Jacobs to Advise UK Ministry of Defence on $6.5B Estate Optimization

The U.K. Ministry of Defence has appointed Jacobs as a strategic environmental and technical adviser to help redevelop surplus military land for community use. The initiative is part of the Defence Estate Optimisation portfolio, a $6.5 billion government program to modernize and make defense infrastructure more sustainable. As a consultant, Jacobs will provide environmental and...

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US Approves Possible $105M Sale of Military Air Traffic Radars to Poland

The U.S. Department of State has greenlit a potential sale of mobile ground control approach systems to Poland worth an estimated $105 million. Poland seeks to purchase GCA systems with UHF radios, interrogators, test equipment, navigation tools, spare parts and technical documents. Training and other logistical and program support are also part of the package....

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Australia’s Defence Intelligence Group Turns to Industry to Manage Data Surge

Australia needs industry support to design, develop and sustain capabilities to manage the anticipated surge in intelligence data over the next decade, according to Maj. Gen. Brett Mousley, head of intelligence capability for Defence Australia’s Defence Intelligence Group. At a DIG briefing held at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra, Mousley highlighted the need...

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Report: China Used Meta’s Open-Source AI Model to Develop Military Chatbot

Researchers from three Chinese institutions, including two linked to the People’s Liberation Army’s Academy of Military Science, have developed an artificial intelligence tool for the military called ChatBIT using Meta’s open-source LLaMA large language model, Reuters reported. According to the report, an academic paper published in June details how the researchers used an earlier version...

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