Saab has come to an agreement with Lockheed Martin‘s subsidiary in Canada to install additional optronic sensors in the former’s Ceros 200 fire control directors used by the country’s navy on the branch’s Halifax-class frigates and land-based test sites. The optronic sensors will work to deliver additional support to the radar functions of the Ceros 200, Saab said Monday. Ceros 200 […] More

Sweden-based defense and security services company Saab Group has inked a three-year agreement with the country’s defense material administration agency to provide continued air traffic systems maintenance and upgrade services. The contract covers technical support, system coordination and infrastructure development for the air traffic management and airport systems of all airports and air bases of the Swedish air […] More

A Northrop Grumman subsidiary based in Germany has worked with Saab Aerosystems to develop a navigation, flight guidance and control system for an unmanned combat air vehicle prototype that flew over France, Italy and Sweden in flight tests. Northrop Grumman LITEF helped build the Attitude and Heading Reference System for the nEUROn drone that a six-country cooperative developed as an experimental, stealth platform to help build and test […] More

A new Congressional Research Service report says the U.S. recorded $36.2 billion in foreign arms sales in 2014, an approximately $10 billion increase from $26.7 billion in 2013, DoD Buzz reported Monday. Brendan McGarry writes the U.S. worldwide arms transfer deals are comprised mainly of Qatar’s $9.6 billion purchase of Lockheed Martin-built Patriot PAC-3 missiles, […] More

CGI and DB Schenker have inked a four-year, $7.6 million outsourcing agreement to develop and manage applications for DB Schenker’s transport and logistics business. CGI will build applications intended to handle DB Schenker’s package and freight, CGI said Wednesday. “We see this new agreement as confirmation of the value we are delivering, and we look […] More

Orbital ATK has completed the initial testing phase for a 22 Newton thruster designed to navigate satellites while in the Earth’s orbit. The company said Tuesday it evaluated the 22N along with the 5N thruster onboard a green propulsion platform in a series of tests at NASA‘s Alabama-based Marshall Space Flight Center. LMP-103S rocket fuel from Sweden-based company […] More

Netherlands has ordered an undisclosed number of Raytheon-built 155-milimeter projectile rounds through a foreign military sales deal with the U.S. government. Raytheon said Tuesday that Netherlands is the company’s second European customer for the Excalibur 1b artillery shells and the company expects to begin deliveries later this year. Mark Hokeness, Raytheon director of the Excalibur […] More

A Computer Sciences Corp. and AT&T partnership has been awarded a potential seven-year contract to provide information technology network and communication services to Swedish power company Vattenfall. The team will work to build a workplace IT environment for approximately 30,000 end users at Vatenfall’s facilities worldwide, CSC said Tuesday. “Sweden is a key market for […] More

BAE Systems has agreed to finance a new post-graduate cybersecurity program at the National Defense University of Malaysia. The company collaborated with Warwick Manufacturing Group at England’s University of Warwick and the University of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur to develop the program, BAE Systems said Thursday. Under the program, NDUM will offer a master of science […] More

A new report by IHS indicates that the global defense market saw increased trading activity for the sixth consecutive year, a 13.4 percent growth rate from $56.8 billion in 2013 to $64.4 billion in 2014. “This record figure has been driven by unparalleled demand from the emerging economies for military aircraft and an escalation of regional […] More

CGI and Hitachi Data Systems have inked an agreement to deliver private and hybrid Hitachi-powered cloud services to customers. The cloud model is designed to help users gain access to business data via mobile devices and desktop computers, CGI said Thursday. “Our partnership with Hitachi Data Systems helps clients achieve their goals to transform enterprise […] More

Military personnel from four U.S. partner nations demonstrated Raytheon-made combat missiles from air and ground platforms at Sweden’s Vidsel test range in September. Raytheon said Monday Norwegian, Swiss, Turkish and Finnish armed forces launched five AIM-120C7 medium range air-to-air missiles during the Thor’s Hammer exercise. The AMRAAMs hit their targets after they were fired from […] More