The British Royal Air Force, Royal Navy and Royal Marines participated in recent multinational Indo-Pacific military exercises as part of U.K. support for the region’s security and stability. The U.K. government said it sent forces to operate alongside close to 30 international allies in their deployments, which included participation in Exercise Predators Run held from...
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Northrop Wins New Contract Under Deep Space Advanced Radar Capability Program
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...
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US, Australia Test DAGR Capabilities to Improve Resiliency
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...
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Northrop Grumman Taps Genohco for Hardware Support to South Korea’s Mine Countermeasures Project; Janice Zilch Quoted
Northrop Grumman is securing from defense and aerospace communications company Genohco the hardware components for South Korea’s mine countermeasures helicopter program. The hardware supply, set through a recently signed memorandum of understanding between the two companies, supports Northrop’s 2023 contract with Korea Aerospace Industries to deliver airborne laser mine detection systems to South Korea’s KMCH...
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Australian Defense Minister Confident of AUKUS Progress Despite Concerns
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...
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US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand Pledge to Deepen Scientific Collaboration
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....
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Oracle Expands Mideast Footprint, Opens New Public Cloud Region in Riyadh
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...
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Airbus Secures CNES Radiometer Development Contract for International Climate Satellite Mission
The French Space Agency has awarded Airbus a contract to build and design two microwave radiometers for the Atmosphere Observing System: Convective Core Observations through MicrOwave Derivatives in the trOpics mission. AOS, a component of NASA’s Earth System Observatory, is a collaborative project between the United States and partner organizations in Canada, Japan, Italy and...
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Poland Secures Offset Commitments to Sustain GE-Powered Apache Guardian Helicopters
GE Aerospace has offered Poland with training support as part of the Ministry of National Defence’s upcoming contract to acquire 96 Boeing AH-64E Apache Guardian helicopters. Under an offset deal, GE said it will work with two local entities — Military Aviation Works and the Military University of Technology — to equip the local workforce...
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Axiom Space Preparing for International Astronaut Mission to ISS in October
Axiom Space will send three astronauts from India, Poland and Hungary to the International Space Station as part of Axiom Mission 4, which will be launched as early as October on board a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. A Falcon 9 rocket will carry the crew — Shubhanshu Shukla, Slawosz Uznanski and Tibor Kapu with American biochemistry...