Future Combat Systems "Spinout 1"
The Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS) program is ready to test a few components that soldiers may have in their hands by 2010.
By GERARD O'DWYER
HELSINKI - Estonia's Ministry of Defense (MoD) has contracted Systematic Software Engineering, the Aarhus-based Danish defense software group, to deliver a C2IS/Battle Management System to the Estonian Armed Forces for a "try before we buy" 12-month period. ... full story
20 Nov 10:39 EST (15:39 GMT)
By GERARD O'DWYER
HELSINKI - Estonia's Ministry of Defense (MoD) has contracted Systematic Software Engineering, the Aarhus-based Danish defense software group, to deliver a C2IS/Battle Management System to the Estonian Armed Forces for a "try before we buy" 12-month period. ... full story
20 Nov 10:39 EST (15:39 GMT)
By PIERRE TRAN
Dubai - Thales has won a contract to supply the Indian Air Force 19 low-level transportable radar systems based on the Ground Smarter (GS) 100 sensor, the defense company announced at the air show here. ... full story
20 Nov 09:15 EST (14:15 GMT)
By ANTONIE BOESSENKOOL
Germany will wait for U.S. President Barack Obama's decision regarding the strategy for Afghanistan before weighing options on its troop levels, Germany's minister of defense, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, said Nov. 19 in Washington. ... full story
19 Nov 19:56 EST (00:56 GMT)
By ANTONIE BOESSENKOOL
Germany will wait for U.S. President Barack Obama's decision regarding the strategy for Afghanistan before weighing options on its troop levels, Germany's minister of defense, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, said Nov. 19 in Washington. ... full story
19 Nov 19:56 EST (00:56 GMT)
By ANDREW CHUTER
DUBAI - BAE Systems has questioned the safety of a rival turret design being bid by Lockheed Martin UK in a 1 billion pound ($1.7 billion) competition to upgrade the British Army's Warrior infantry fighting vehicle. ... full story
18 Nov 12:05 EST (17:05 GMT)
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
TOKYO - President Barack Obama said Nov. 13 in Japan that he hopes to quickly resolve talks on where to relocate a controversial U.S. military base on southern Okinawa island. ... full story
13 Nov 08:53 EST (13:53 GMT)
By PIERRE TRAN
Dubai - Thales has won a contract to supply the Indian Air Force 19 low-level transportable radar systems based on the Ground Smarter (GS) 100 sensor, the defense company announced at the air show here. ... full story
20 Nov 09:15 EST (14:15 GMT)
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
TOKYO - President Barack Obama said Nov. 13 in Japan that he hopes to quickly resolve talks on where to relocate a controversial U.S. military base on southern Okinawa island. ... full story
13 Nov 08:53 EST (13:53 GMT)
By VIVEK RAGHUVANSHI
NEW DELHI - Singapore Technologies will not be allowed to participate in an Indian tender for 155mm ultra-light artillery guns because it was named in an alleged corruption scandal in June this year by India's fraud investigating agency, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). ... full story
12 Nov 13:13 EST (18:13 GMT)
By ANTONIE BOESSENKOOL
NEW YORK - The surge in spending on equipment for the U.S. Army over the past several years has likely run its course, the president of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, an independent research organization, told analysts at an investor conference here Nov. 10. ... full story
11 Nov 18:12 EST (23:12 GMT)
By ANTONIE BOESSENKOOL
NEW YORK - A lack of coordination and networking of electronic warfare equipment used in Iraq and Afghanistan is becoming a hazard for U.S. and allied troops in the two wars, the Army's chief of electronic warfare told defense analysts and investors here Nov. 10. ... full story
11 Nov 17:19 EST (22:19 GMT)
By Barbara Opall-Rome
SHIZAFON ARMY BASE, Israel - The chances are "not small" that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) again will be called into battle, and when combat begins, there must be no question as to the outcome of operations, the nation's top commander here said Oct. 13. ... full story
14 Oct 12:50 EDT (17:50 GMT)
The Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS) program is ready to test a few components that soldiers may have in their hands by 2010.