Category: Notizie Estero

LONDON — A senior executive and associate of an Airbus subsidiary paid £9.7mn in bribes to Saudi Arabian military officials to secure contracts for the UK government a court was told on Thursday.

The prosecution barrister Mark Heywood QC said the case concerned “deep corruption in overseas defe…

The White House Military Office is evaluating when President Joe Biden can fly for the first time in the new presidential helicopter — and what missions it’s ready to perform — after years of delay.

The office began its “commissioning” process after the Marine Corps declared that the $5 billion f…

Department of Defense auditors found issues with how DOD reports certain assets in its financial statements for the Joint Strike Fighter program—its most costly weapon system in history. DOD hasn’t fully developed a strategy to address the reporting issues. It has also struggled with following proce…

Ukraine received $6.5 billion in pledges at an international donors’ conference in Warsaw Thursday. VOA Eastern Europe Bureau Chief Myroslava Gongadze discussed the conference and other issues with Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal in the Polish capital.

(The following interview has been …

Last night, the first SM-2 missile was fired from a Danish warship. The Armed Forces and the Ministry of Defense’s Materiel and Procurement Agency are integrating the SM-2 missiles for use in the Danish frigates of the Iver Huitfeldt class. This means that in the future the frigates will be able to …

Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Fort Worth, Texas is awarded a $372,461,030 undefinitized firm-fixed-price modification (P00003) to an order (N0001921F0398) against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N0001919G0008).

This modification adds scope to procure F-35 …