IDEX 2011: BACKDROP TO AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE
Three decades have passed since the world's defence industry came to a realisation of the potential of a rich vein of accessible new business awaiting exploitation in the emerging markets clustered around the Persian Gulf.
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NEWS IN BRIEF
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Military forces throughout Europe are continually improving their military ISR capabilities. Major programmes were to provide for new sensors, manned/unmanned platforms, and real-time communications links. The »War on Terrorism« shows that an enhanced ISR capability can bring information superiority to the forces and allows them to close the sensor-to-shooter cycle.
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The U.S.Defense Department has found $154bn in efficiencies over the next five years and will be able to invest $70bn of that saved money in more deserving accounts, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said today.
The secretary announced the savings and reinvesting of the efficiencies during a Pentagon news conference. Gates emphasized that the nation is at war and faces a range of future security threats.
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With a weapons range some 40 km from end-to-end, provision of modern digital telemetry and data transmission facilities to assist ballistics development and evaluation processes is not an easy task. However, British company, IndiComm, is in the final process of installing and integrating just such a system for the Ministry of Military Production (MMP) in Egypt.
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U.K. MoD SIGNS FOXHOUND LPPV CONTRACT
The UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) has signed a £180m contract with Force Protection Europe (FPE) to supply 200 Light Protected Patrol Vehicles (LPPVs) to finally replace the much-maligned Snatch Land Rover fleet delivery of the vehicles is scheduled to be completed by Spring 2012. FPE’s 4x4 ‘Ocelot’ vehicle, which beat Supacat and NP Aerospace’s SPV400 to preferred bidder status in September, will be renamed as ‘Foxhound’ by the MoD.
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NETWORK CENTRIC WARFARE’S VULNERABILITIES IN THE ELECTRONICS SUPPLY CHAIN
In just two decades massive change in the design, development, testing and distribution of electronics components and software have given consumers nearly limitless, increasingly mobile and vastly more capable complex communications and computing capabilities far more advanced than the most sophisticated military technologies of twenty years ago.
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U.S. ARMY SMALL ARMS UPDATE
As these words are being written, dozens of contractor teams are positioning and preparing in anticipation of the upcoming U.S. Army ‘carbine competition’ program. Envisioned as a potential replacement for the service’s M4 / M4A1 carbine, early indications are that the competition may feature up to 40 systems in upcoming tests.
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PROGRESS IN TACTICAL WIDEBAND WAVEFORM DEVELOPMENT
Military forces’ transition to wideband communications has led to an increased use of collaborative wireless applications such as video feeds, imagery, tactical chat, and file transfer.
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Commodore C. C. C. Johnstone CBE Royal Navy to be promoted Rear Admiral and to be Flag Officer Sea Training in July 2011 in succession to Rear Admiral C A Snow CBE who will be retiring from the Service.
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