Israeli company Orbit Communication Systems will supply multipurpose satellite communication terminals to Israel under a contract worth about $9.1 million. The Israeli Ministry of Defense expects to deploy the terminals on mobile and stationary ground platforms. Once the ministry receives the initial orders in 2025, the Orbit product is expected to improve the Israeli armed...
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US OKs $65M Sale of Tactical Comms Support Services to Taiwan
The U.S. Department of State has approved a potential foreign military sale worth $65 million for extended support services related to Taiwan’s tactical communications network. The possible sale involves follow-on support services for Improved Mobile Subscriber Equipment and Experimental Force systems, which the the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States had...
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UK Secures US Approval for High Gain Measurement System Acquisition
The U.S. Department of State has approved a foreign military sale to the United Kingdom for the High Gain Measurement System equipment and support. The U.K.’s request, valued at about $125 million, covers the acquisition of an HGMS system fitted with off-aspect mid-frequency line arrays. It also includes spare components, such as acoustic sensors and...
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Open Cosmos, ESA Partner to Better Understand Earth’s Magnetic Field
Small satellite manufacturer Open Cosmos announced that it has secured a contract from the European Space Agency to provide three cubesats for the NanoMagSat mission. According to the United Kingdom-based company, each Open Cosmos spacecraft will feature advanced payloads, such as a miniaturized absolute magnetometer coupled with star cameras on top of a deployable boom...
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State Department Approves Taiwan’s Acquisition of F-16 Parts, Support Services
The U.S. Department of Defense has approved Taiwan’s request to acquire spare components and support services for the F-16 aircraft and active electronically scanned array radar, or AESA. The proposed $320 million foreign military sale, coursed through the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States, covers the purchase of critical spare and...
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UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority Introduces New Facility to Improve Cyber Posture
The United Kingdom’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has opened the Group Cyberspace Collaboration Centre, a space under the agency’s portfolio of digital and cyber capabilities. “The GCCC is further enhancing our collective ability to keep us safe, secure, resilient and sustainable in cyberspace, enabling us to work together more closely means we can defend as one,...
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US Hands Over First Beechcraft Training Aircraft to Vietnam
Textron Aviation Defense has delivered five Beechcraft T-6C Texan II training aircraft to Vietnam‘s Phan Thiet Airbase. The delivery, the first batch of aircraft procured to support Hanoi’s pilot training program, fulfills part of a first-of-its-kind Foreign Military Sales program between the U.S. Air Force and the Vietnam Air Defense Air Force. The remaining planes...
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UK MoD Selects Airbus to Upgrade Modems for Skynet Network
Airbus has secured a contract with the U.K. Ministry of Defence to supply advanced modems for the Skynet satellite communications network. The new hardware, called Future Protected Modem-A, will replace the existing Paradigm Modem System and support both the operational Skynet 5 satellites and the upcoming Skynet 6A satellite. The modems, manufactured in the United...
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Air Force B-52H Bomber Conducts Simulated Weapons Drop in Finland
The U.S. Air Force deployed two B-52H Stratofortress bombers in Finland on Nov. 25 to perform a simulated weapons drop, along with Finnish F/A-18C Hornets and Swedish Air Force Saab JAS 39 Gripens, as part of Bomber Task Force 25-1. The exercise, which presented Finland’s role as a NATO ally, contributed to strengthening the alliance’s...
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US-Lithuania Nuclear Energy Pact Eyes Small Modular Reactors
The United States and Lithuania have signed a strategic cooperation agreement to develop civil nuclear energy in the Baltic nation focused on deploying fourth-generation small modular reactors, or SMRs. The pact, signed by U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm and visiting Lithuanian Minister of Energy Dainius Kreivys in Washington on Tuesday, is vital to U.S. efforts...