The NATO Communications and Information Agency will organize the NATO Digital Foundry project to open opportunities for collaboration on new technologies with industry, nonprofits and other alliance stakeholders. According to Antonio Calderon, NCIA chief technology officer, the project is an offshoot of the agency’s first technology strategy for NATO to acquire innovative digital capabilities for...
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Redwire Adds Poland to European Footprint
Redwire is expanding its European operations with the opening of a regional office in Warsaw. The new unit will support the development of the Jacksonville, Florida-based space infrastructure company’s international berthing and docking mechanism, or IBDM, including design and specification, assembly, integration and testing, Redwire said Monday. Tech Partnerships The IBDM technology is geared to...
US-Lithuania Nuclear Energy Pact Eyes Small Modular Reactors
The United States and Lithuania have signed a strategic cooperation agreement to develop civil nuclear energy in the Baltic nation focused on deploying fourth-generation small modular reactors, or SMRs. The pact, signed by U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm and visiting Lithuanian Minister of Energy Dainius Kreivys in Washington on Tuesday, is vital to U.S. efforts...
Kazakhstani Nuclear Agency Secures $156M US Contract for Threat Reduction Support
The U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency has tapped Kazakhstan’s National Nuclear Center for support services in the Cooperative Threat Reduction program to mitigate the dangers posed by weapons of mass destruction. The CTR Directorate works with other government agencies and partners around the world to carry out its mission, specifically in the elimination of strategic...
Romanian F-35 Purchase Seen to Boost NATO’s Air Defense
The Romanian government has signed a letter of offer and acceptance to formalize its plan to acquire 32 Lockheed Martin fifth-generation F-35 Lightning II aircraft through a Foreign Military Sales agreement with the United States. According to Lockheed, the F-35s will be integrated with the Romanian Air Force’s F-16 squadrons. Romania hosts the European F-16...
Equinix to Expand Asia-Pacific Footprint With New Singapore Data Center
Equinix, a Redwood, California-based digital infrastructure company, is investing an initial $260 million to establish its sixth International Business Exchange data center in Singapore. Called SG6, the new IBX aims to support the delivery of digital infrastructure vital to the development artificial intelligence capabilities across industries in Singapore and the Asia-Pacific region, Equinix said Tuesday....
ICEYE Heads Consortium to Help Develop Finland’s Advanced Space Capabilities
Finland’s Ministry of Defence has tapped satellite manufacturer and operator ICEYE to lead a consortium to support its development of advanced space and joint intelligence capabilities, including military intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance technologies. The consortium will work with Lockheed Martin under the industrial participation program of the ministry’s F-35 program, a collaboration that is part of...
Report: AUKUS Advances Electronic Warfare Data-Sharing
The AUKUS trilateral security partnership of Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States is expected to establish an electronic warfare data-sharing framework by early 2025, according to Travis Manning, the U.S. lead in the coalition’s EW working group. Manning told Breaking Defense that the mechanism will guide how the alliance shares EW data in...
French Consortium to Launch Cybersecurity Tool for Connected Equipment
The French consortium HyGARDE expects to unveil by yearend its first prototype of a cybersecurity solution to protect connected equipment, a goal initially focused on securing technologies for the renewable energy transition. The prototype will be used to secure the equipment of Solutions Hydrogene, a company that provides renewable hydrogen storage systems for industrial and...
Ovzon to Demo Satcom Control on Unmanned Ground Vehicles
The Swedish Defence Materiel Administration has awarded Ovzon a contract to test the capability of the technology company’s satellite communication systems and services to control unmanned ground vehicles at great distances. The demonstration, to be performed in Sweden, is scheduled for the second half of November. It will involve mobile satellite terminals and satcom services...










