Romania has awarded PZL Mielec, a Lockheed Martin company, a contract to acquire an additional S-70M Black Hawk utility helicopter. The Poland-based company’s latest agreement with the Romanian Ministry of Internal Affairs will increase the European country’s existing fleet of Black Hawk aircraft following the delivery of seven units in the last quarter of 2023....
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US, Canada Host Joint Exercise on Supply Chain Disruption Management
The United States and Canada showed commitment to ensuring seamless movement of goods along their borders with the staging of an exercise on supply chain disruption. Held in early June and hosted by the Department of Homeland Security’s Supply Chain and Resilience Center, the Department of Transportation and Transport Canada, the joint drill featured a...
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Irving Shipbuilding Selects L3Harris to Provide Integrated Platform Management System for New Canadian Warships
L3Harris has secured two contracts to deliver and install its Integrated Platform Management System on new Royal Canadian Navy warships built under the Canadian Surface Combatant program. Irving Shipbuilding, which awarded the contracts, leads a consortium working on the shipbuilding project along with Lockheed Martin Canada. According to L3Harris, IPMS provides automation capabilities for monitoring...
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US, UK Ships Start Mine Countermeasure Training With Ukrainian Navy
The U.S. Navy said it has started Exercise Sea Breeze 2024, a joint mine countermeasure naval training with the British Royal Navy and the Ukrainian Navy. Sea Breeze aims to address the challenges that mines pose to maritime safety and security, global food security and commerce, the military service said. The latest edition, which runs...
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Bell Seeks to Deliver Canada’s First Modified Griffon Helicopter in 2026
Bell Textron Canada targets a 2026 delivery for the first modernized CH-146 Griffon of the Royal Canadian Air Force, pending military certification. The company is upgrading RCAF’s fleet of Bell 412EP variant helicopters under a $2.28 billion in-service support contract awarded in January to support the Griffon Limited Life Extension project through 2039. The first...
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Treasury Seeking Comments on Proposal to Prohibit Tech-Related Deals in Countries of Concern
The Department of the Treasury is soliciting comments on its proposed regulations addressing potential national security issues posed by U.S. investments in locations deemed countries of concern under an executive order on national security technologies and products. The Treasury issued a notice of proposed rulemaking in compliance with Executive Order 14105, under which the department...
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Australia Orders Two Additional Patrol Boats From Austal; Paddy Gregg Quoted
The Australian Department of Defence is expanding its maritime capability with two additional Guardian-class patrol boats from Austal Australia under a deal estimated at $26 million. Austal has already delivered 30 patrol boats, which are 39.5-meter steel-hull vessels made in Henderson, Western Australia, with the help of local supply chain partners. Of the 30 vessels...
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Northrop Grumman Delivers Space Norway’s Arctic Region Broadband Satellites to California Ahead of Launch; Brandon White Quoted
Northrop Grumman’s satellites for Space Norway’s Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission have arrived in California. ASBM-1 and ASBM-2 were built at the Northop facilities in Dulles, Virginia, and will lift off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vanderberg Space Force Base. Northrop Grumman and state-owned company Space Norway are yet to announce a specific launch...
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Oracle Seeks Larger Spanish Footprint With $1B Planned Cloud Investment; Albert Triola Quoted
Oracle has announced plans to spend over $1 billion in Spain over the next 10 years to establish a third cloud region in Madrid and provide technical support for developing Spanish skills in artificial intelligence. In its investment plan statement, Oracle said Telefonica España will be the host partner for the new area. The upcoming...
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Iridium Partners Authorized to Sell STL Service in Europe, Asia; Matt Desch Quoted
Iridium has authorized its partners to offer the company’s alternative positioning, timing and navigation service to customers in Europe and Asia Pacific, in addition to those in North America. The Iridium Satellite Time and Location service, designed to deliver precise timing information resilient to global navigation satellite system outages, was launched in April after the...