A significant part of the Dutch cabinet was in Ghent today for consultations with Belgian colleagues. In addition to Prime Minister Mark Rutte, no fewer than 12 ministers and secretaries of state took part in the so-called Thalassa summit, including Defense Minister Kajsa Ollongren.

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BOULDER, Colo. — Northrop Grumman Corporation was awarded a $99.6 million contract by U.S. Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific to provide mission-critical capabilities for Relay Ground Station-Asia (RGS-A). Northrop Grumman will design, develop, integrate, test and deliver the first of…

WASHINGTON –– The U.S. Army announced the award of a 10-year firm-fixed-price follow-on production contract to Sig Sauer, Inc for the manufacture and delivery of two Next Generation Squad Weapon variations (the XM5 Rifle and the XM250 Automatic Rifle) and the 6.8 Common Cartridge Family of Ammuniti…

WASHINGTON — The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Australia of Defense Articles Related to Multifunctional Information Distribution System Joint Tactical Radio Systems and related equipment for an estimated cost of $42 millio…

SEOUL — The head of South Korea’s state arms procurement agency said Wednesday that it may be of “little use” to send tanks and fighters to Ukraine as its troops need months of training to use new weapons systems.

Kang Eun-ho, the minister of the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA…

The Air Force’s fleet of F-16M aircraft has reached the historic record of 100,000 flight hours in service with the Air Force. This milestone was marked, on April 18, in a formation flight with F-16M aircraft, carried out by Squadrons 201 – “Falcons” and 301 – “Jaguares”, from Air Base No. 5, in Mon…