Yearly Archive: 2020

The Coalition Government has approved the purchase of a fleet of Bushmaster vehicles to replace the New Zealand Army’s armoured Pinzgauers, Defence Minister Ron Mark has announced today.

The new fleet of 43 Australian-designed and built Bushmaster NZ5.5 will provide better protection for personne…

ECA Group has awarded UMS SKELDAR a procurement contract to supply the Skeldar V-200 UAV as part of the naval mine countermeasures capability replacement, a programme led by Belgium Naval & Robotics – a consortium including Naval Group and ECA Group – which will supply twelve mine hunters equipped w…

The Navy removed its program manager for the first-in-class USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), as Navy acquisition chief James Geurts looks to boost performance in the new carrier program.

Capt. Ron Rutan has been moved from the program office to the Naval Sea Systems (NAVSEA) staff, and Capt. Brian Me…

The CH-53K King Stallion heavy transport helicopter successfully completed an extensive series of tests on a helicopter carrier of the US Navy at the end of June 2020. The tests, which took place over a period of around 14 days in the Atlantic Ocean, included taking off and landing from various deck…

SAN DIEGO –– Cubic Corporation today announced its Cubic Mission Solutions (CMS) business division was awarded a $950 million ceiling indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract for the U.S. Air Force’s Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS).

The Air Force will use the contract fo…

BEIJING — On July 6, the 9th Ministerial Meeting of the China-Arab States Cooperation Forum was held via video-link.

“The BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) is China’s first space infrastructure to provide public services for the world. During the development of the BeiDou-3 system, we ha…