Yearly Archive: 2020

The Government’s Pacific Maritime Security Program has reached a new milestone today as the Kingdom of Tonga received their second Australian-built Guardian-class Patrol Boat at a ceremony in Henderson, Western Australia.

This is the eighth Guardian-class vessel to be delivered under the Program….

ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill. — Northrop Grumman Corporation has received a $91 million contract for the additional production of AN/APR-39D(V)2 digital radar warning receivers (RWR). Small and lightweight, the system protects rotary and fixed wing aircraft from modern radio frequency (RF) threats such as…

The JAPCC turns 15 – fifteen years dedicated to competence in air power! Unlike sea and land power, both of which also represent geostrategic terms, air power is much less related to the ‘classical’ notion of ‘geography’. For instance, being geographically distant from a crisis does not mean too muc…

With both Russia and China developing and building hypersonic weapons, the U.S. military must get in the game or risk being left behind. In the past, regulations have slowed acquisition of advanced technology. But the Defense Department has rewritten the rules for acquisition — the 5000-series of po…

WICHITA, Kan. — Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc. announced today it has completed, through its wholly-owned subsidiaries Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. and Spirit AeroSystems Global Holdings Limited, its acquisition of select assets of Bombardier aerostructures and aftermarket services businesses in Be…