Yearly Archive: 2020

WASHINGTON — DSCA Director Heidi Grant and R. Clarke Cooper, Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs, announced the Fiscal Year 2020 U.S. arms transfer figures, as well as other notable Defense and State Department accomplishments and statistics, highlighting the depth and brea…

PARIS — Using malware unknown to the company’s anti-virus programs, and propagated using USB drives, a hacker gained access to 99 computers at facilities of Italian aerospace and defense group Leonardo and stole over 100 gigabytes of data between May 2015 and January 2017, according to

PARIS — In light of the uncertainty linked to the current COVID-19 health crisis, the Paris Air Show organization has made the decision to cancel the 2021 edition of the show, which was scheduled to take place from 21 to 27 June 2021.

Together with the Board of Directors of the GIFAS (French Ae…

STOCKHOLM — Sales of arms and military services by the sector’s largest 25 companies totalled US$361 billion in 2019, 8.5 per cent more than in 2018. The largest companies have a geographically diverse international presence. This is according to new data released today by the Stockholm Internat…

A Russian court has ordered the arrest of a physicist specializing in hypersonic aircraft on suspicion of high treason.

Anatoly Gubanov took part in international conferences and projects involving hydrogen-powered hypersonic aircraft, the Interfax news agency reported on December 3, citing unnam…

Brazilian company Embraer, considered today’s third-largest airplane maker after Boeing and Airbus, was the victim of a ransomware attack last month.

Today, hackers involved in the intrusion have leaked some of the company’s private files as revenge after the airplane maker refused to negotiate a…