India’s navy has issued a request for information for a program that seeks to purchase approximately $1.5 billion in short-range surface-to-air missile platforms in an effort to replace its Israel-made Barak-1 air defense systems, Defense News reported Wednesday. Vivek Raghuvanshi writes the Indian navy plans to release a tender after six months through the Make […] More

MEADS International, a joint venture between MBDA‘s German and Italian units and Lockheed Martin, has proposed a customized partnership with Turkey to develop the country’s first long-range air and missile defense system, Defense News reported Wednesday. Burak Ege Bekdil writes MEADS representatives have visited Turkey in previous months for preliminary talks and anticipate formal contract negotiations […] More

MEADS International, a joint venture between Lockheed Martin and MBDA, has submitted a proposal to the Polish government to build and deliver air-and-missile defense systems, Defense News reported Tuesday. Jen Judson writes the submission is in response to a solicitation notice on Poland’s Wisla missile defense program. Marty Coyne,  Medium Extended Air Defense System director at Lockheed, said that the proposal covers […] More

Palo Alto Networks has integrated its virtualized firewalls with the auto scaling and elastic load balancing platforms of Amazon Web Services in an effort to help joint customers secure their workloads. The companies seek to help clients automatically scale cyber breach prevention tools as their cloud-based workloads fluctuate through the use of VM-Series firewalls in conjunction with AWS Lambda, CloudFormation Templates and Amazon CloudWatch services, Palo […] More

A Raytheon official has said the company could perform updates to Germany’s Patriot missile defense system within a year and for less than the estimated budget for the development of the Medium Extended Air Defense System, Reuters reported Friday. Lockheed Martin built the MEADS system with MBDA, Andrea Shalal and Sabine Siebold write. “They refer to us as […] More

BAE Systems PLC plans to start manufacturing anti-submarine warfare ships for the U.K. navy in 2017 after the conclusion of final contract negotiations with Britain’s defense ministry. The company said Friday Britain hascommitted to eight Type 26 Global Combat Ships to replace Type 23 frigates in the “2015 Strategic Defence and Security Review” and the country has invested $2.4 billion in […] More

Britain-based industrial team UK Dragonfire will conduct the Laser Directed Energy Weapons Capability Demonstrator under a potential $39.2 million deal with the U.K.’s ministry of defense. MBDA said Friday the group will look to mature the country’s high energy laser weapon systems capacity as well as technologies for a high energy defensive laser weapon system that can engage with targets […] More

A Technavio study, released by Research and Markets, forecasts the global market for tactical anti-tank missile systems will grow from 2016 through 2020 at a 3.98 percent compound annual growth rate. The 71-page market research report indicates that new updates to anti-tank missiles will fuel the market growth over the forecast period while thermal management of missile systems will present […] More

Chantilly, Virginia-based EmeSec has formed an advisory board that consists of information technology, business development and government professionals in the cybersecurity industry. The cloud computing, security and engineering services company said Wednesday its new advisory board will work to provide perspective on market and business development opportunities, macro-economic trends as well as EmeSec’s customer service and go-to-market strategies. “As cloud cybersecurity services and […] More

MEADS International and Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa, a state-owned defense firm in Poland, have agreed to explore cooperation and business opportunities related to the WisÅ‚a medium-range air defense program. The two companies inked a letter of intent to allow PGZ a participation in the expansion and sales of the Medium Extended Air Defense System in partnership […] More

Italian defense minister Roberta Pinotti and her French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian have signed an agreement to facilitate collaboration on the development of the Aster 30 Block 1 NT missile. MBDA said Tuesday France and Italy will work to update the Aster 30 missile and its SAMP/T system through the cooperation arrangement pact in order to develop […] More

  Babcock‘s proposed system for the British defense science and technology laboratory’s Laser Directed Energy Weapon Capability Demonstrator program will incorporate the Raytheon-built Phalanx air defense technology, Flightglobal reported Thursday. Beth Stevenson writes the LDEW-CD competition seeks a 20-millimeter laser-equipped Gatling machine gun designed to counter potential airborne threats, including unmanned aircraft systems, to naval ships. The report said the Babcock offering […] More