BRASILIA — Starting next Monday, a wider range of products may be financed, expanding the Defense Industrial Base (IDB). The measure was made possible thanks to the Protocol of Intent signed by the Ministry of Defense (MD), through the Department of Defense Products (SEPROD), with the National Ban…

The Department of Defense released today the Military Intelligence Program (MIP) appropriated top line budget for FY 2021.

The total MIP budget, which included both the base budget and Overseas Contingency Operations appropriations, was $23.3 billion and is aligned to support the National Defen…

The United States Air Force completed the transfer to Chile of two C-130 Hercules aircraft, for a total value of US$24 million, in what is an expression of the friendship between the two countries and an example of the excellent and extensive cooperation between the two nations.

In a ceremony hel…

A $3.5 million Australian Army project to develop a convoy of autonomous trucks that use technology to follow the leader has passed a key milestone by successfully completing a series of road trials.

The autonomous leader-follower vehicle technology, using modified Land 121 40M cargo trucks, was …

Two major collaborative defence research (R&T) projects, launched under the European Commission’s Preparatory Acton on Defence Research (PADR) and implemented by the European Defence Agency (EDA), came to a close end of October.

The results of both projects – OCEAN 2020 and VESTLIFE – will contr…

Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) has symbolically handed over the first of a total of six LEOPARD 2-based LEGUAN bridge laying systems to high-ranking representatives of the Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency (NDMA) during a roll-out ceremony. Despite the pandemic, delivery of the systems will begin well …