Defense Business

The Estonian military is aiming to spend some 818 million euros (US $902 million) on acquisitions of new weapons and equipment by 2020, according...

Israeli company Roboteam expands its family of unmanned systems and operator controllers; an order for the new configuration of its MTGR (Micro Tactical Ground...

An amendment in the U.S. foreign military aid proposal will add $173 million for U.S.-Israeli cooperative missile defense programs, including nearly $34 million to...

Prioria Robotics, Inc., developers of tactical Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (SUAS), has been awarded several contracts totaling $4.5 million by the U.S. Army Rapid...

Secret U.S. missile and electro-optics technology was transferred to China recently by Israel, prompting anger from the U.S. and causing a senior Israeli defense...

Raytheon’s High Speed Guard big data transfer solution has received Cross Domain System Authorization and Authority to Operate for Secret and Below Interoperability (SABI),...

American and Indian industries have identified 25 new technologies for transfer to the latter under the defense trade and technology initiative (DTTI) to be...

Venture capitalists like Tim Draper are placing their bets on the commercial applications of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). Draper, an early investor in Hotmail,...

Department of Defense (DoD) officials consider climate change a key factor in protecting national security around the globe, according to deputy assistant secretary of...

China will establish a special industrial base for the development and production of unmanned aerial vehicles in Beijing’s southern Daxing District, reports Chinese-language media...

Slowly but surely, unmanned aircraft systems(UAS) are entering the U.S. National Airspace System (NAS). For the first time, aircraft have flown commercially into remote...

Homeland security and commercial unmanned aircraft system (UAS) are used by countries to protect their borders and get aerial views of commercial projects. Complex...

Production by Russia’s defense industry is expected to show a 15% increase this year over 2012, according to Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin. Rogozin,...

Europe goes alone on MALE UAV's A plan by companies in France, Germany and Italy to launch a European medium-altitude, long-endurance (MALE) UAV program will...

Slow economic recovery following the 2008 war with Russia, political instability, and shifting government spending priorities designed to support economic development and stability have...

Boeing Directed Energy Systems will evaluate the RADA Multi-Mission Hemispheric Radar – (MHR) for its operability as part of Boeing’s Directed Energy tactical systems....

The US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded Lockheed Martin a contract for the third phase of its RF Mapping program, RadioMap,...

By Arie Egozi Unmanned air vehicles (UAV) systems carrier? Well, not in the near future but while until some years ago, the idea would have...

News items mentioned in this episode: IAI's new Airbus Military C-295 aircraft Rafael's new DLV-53 data link for drones Elbit's Sea King flight simulator IAI develops unmanned version...

Israeli defense companies aim to get a bigger slice as possible of the new Polish defense budget. Some of the planned acquisitions are connected...

The impressive success of the Rafael "Iron Dome" rocket interceptor, has not caused many people in Israel and other countries , that dream about...

DHS’s plan to deploy fifty surveillance towers across southern Arizona is temporarily on hold, following a protest by Raytheon that the agency improperly awarded...