British defense contractor BAE Systems will deliver eight Bofors 40 Mk4 naval gun systems to the Netherlands and Belgium under a new contract from the Dutch Command Materiel and IT, an agency under the Dutch Ministry of Defence. Stefan Lofstrom, marketing and sales director at BAE Systems Bofors, said the new deal allows the company...
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SSTL Secures $50M UK MOD Contract to Build ISR Satellite
The U.K. Ministry of Defence has awarded a $51.95 million contract to Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd to build an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance satellite under the MINERVA technology and innovation program of the U.K. Space Command’s $1.26 billion ISTARI project. Called Juno, the spacecraft will be the second satellite of a constellation the British defense...
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Disarmament Organizations List Benefits, Concerns Over Access to AI, Other Emerging Technologies
Representatives of United Nations-adjacent disarmament agencies have highlighted the benefits of and concerns over the accessibility of artificial intelligence, unmanned systems and other emerging technologies. On the sidelines of a recent meeting of the United Nations General Assembly’s First Committee, Hong Li of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons highlighted how large language...
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Cognyte to Provide EMEA Customer With AI, Analytics Capabilities
A national security agency in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region has entered into a $20 million deal with Cognyte Software to continue using the company’s advanced artificial intelligence and investigative analytics capabilities for a year. According to Cognyte, the agency is a longstanding customer, responsible for protecting national interests and assets and the...
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Jacobs to Advise UK Ministry of Defence on $6.5B Estate Optimization
The U.K. Ministry of Defence has appointed Jacobs as a strategic environmental and technical adviser to help redevelop surplus military land for community use. The initiative is part of the Defence Estate Optimisation portfolio, a $6.5 billion government program to modernize and make defense infrastructure more sustainable. As a consultant, Jacobs will provide environmental and...
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US Approves Possible $105M Sale of Military Air Traffic Radars to Poland
The U.S. Department of State has greenlit a potential sale of mobile ground control approach systems to Poland worth an estimated $105 million. Poland seeks to purchase GCA systems with UHF radios, interrogators, test equipment, navigation tools, spare parts and technical documents. Training and other logistical and program support are also part of the package....
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Australia’s Defence Intelligence Group Turns to Industry to Manage Data Surge
Australia needs industry support to design, develop and sustain capabilities to manage the anticipated surge in intelligence data over the next decade, according to Maj. Gen. Brett Mousley, head of intelligence capability for Defence Australia’s Defence Intelligence Group. At a DIG briefing held at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra, Mousley highlighted the need...
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Report: China Used Meta’s Open-Source AI Model to Develop Military Chatbot
Researchers from three Chinese institutions, including two linked to the People’s Liberation Army’s Academy of Military Science, have developed an artificial intelligence tool for the military called ChatBIT using Meta’s open-source LLaMA large language model, Reuters reported. According to the report, an academic paper published in June details how the researchers used an earlier version...
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SpaceRISE Wins EU Satellite Contract Offer
SpaceRISE, a consortium comprising Eutelsat, Hispasat and SES, has secured a concession contract offer on the European Union’s multi-orbit satellite connectivity system. The European Commission said the consortium’s contract tasks for the EU’s Infrastructure for Resilience, Interconnectivity and Security by Satellite, or IRIS², will tap the services of a core team of subcontractors composed of Thales...
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Israeli Company Rafael to Equip Germany’s Leopard 2 Tanks With TROPHY Active Protection System
Israeli defense technology company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems will provide its TROPHY active protection system to Germany for installation on its fleet of Leopard 2 tanks historically manufactured by Krauss-Maffei Wegmann. On Wednesday, the two countries’ defense ministries inaugurated the first of the tanks to be equipped with the APS. The installation, part of an...