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  • UK and South Korea to launch negotiations on an upgraded, modern free trade agreement to boost trade between the two countries  South Korea is the 13th biggest economy in the world and its import dema ...
  • The United States Department of State has approved a potential $2.53 billion arms sale to Romania, which includes 54 M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams Main Battle Tanks, four M88A2 HERCULES Combat Recovery Vehicles, ...
  • Rotating detonation engines (RDEs) could revolutionize propulsion technology by offering up to 25% greater efficiency than traditional jet engines. This could lead to faster airplanes with longer rang ...
  • EDGE, a defence and technology conglomerate, has signed a $164 million contract with the Brazilian Navy to provide long-range and short-range anti-ship missiles. The missiles are being co-developed wi ...
  • Spanish Cabinet Clears €180 million for Naval Strike Missile, €400 million for Patriot (translated excerpt)

    13 Nov 2023 Spanish Cabinet Office (07.11.23) - Unofficial translation by Defense-Aerospace.com
    Acquisition of Anti-Ship Capabilities for the Navy The Council of Ministers has authorized the conclusion of the framework agreement for the acquisition of Naval Strike Missile anti-ship missiles for ...
  • The UK and Poland defence industries have signed a deal worth over £4 billion to continue the next phase of Poland’s future air defence programme, Narew. Industry deal worth over £4 billion to deliver ...
  • The US has approved an $80 million military grant to Taiwan, a first, signalling more direct support and concern about China's growing military threat. The grant also suggests the US is rethinking its ...
  • One of the largest maritime artificial intelligence data capture trials has taken place in Hampshire, enabling the development of new AI products for Defence.
  • South Korea has identified a list of 31 priority defence procurements it wants to leverage through its defence offset policy over the next two years.
  • MOD Acquisition Pipeline

    31 Oct 2023 Ministry of Defence
    The MOD has published its fourth Acquisition Pipeline to industry, a forward look of future procurement activities over £2m across defence.
  • UK agrees historic manned space mission with Axiom Space

    30 Oct 2023 UK Government/ UK Space Agency
    The agreement between the UK Space Agency and Axiom Space sets out plans for the 2 organisations to work together to pursue a commercially sponsored, UK astronaut mission. On this future flight, the U ...
  • The Philippines' Department of National Defense has announced the purchase of three new C-130J-30 Super Hercules tactical airlifters from Lockheed Martin through a Direct Commercial Sale. By choosing ...
  • The White House officially submitted a supplemental budget request of $105 billion to Congress, with a significant focus on military investments in Ukraine, Israel, and the Indo-Pacific. Key allocatio ...
  • National Cyber Security Centre: Our new principles to help make cloud backups more resilient

    23 Oct 2023 Nicholas W, National Resilience, National Cyber Security Centre
    We’ve come up with a new set of principles which lay out the best practice to make sure cloud backups are more resistant to ransomware. In essence, they describe the features a service should offer fo ...
  • The JET site, despite its records, has faced numerous challenges and delays, including years of experiment suspensions in the mid-2000s while undergoing internal structural replacements. Generating su ...
  • For the year 2023, the military budget, not including pensions, is set to reach €43.9 billion, signifying a notable €3 billion surge. This budget allocation will rank as the government's second-larges ...
  • The Defence Secretary will today announce a new package of support for Ukraine and the signing of further air defence contracts, procured through the International Fund for Ukraine.
  • General Atomics (GA) has introduced the "Eagle Eye" multi-domain surveillance radar system, designed to detect and monitor aerial objects, particularly small drones, for the US Army. This radar system ...
  • At AUSA 2023, Teledyne FLIR unveiled a new variant of the Black Hornet UAS. The company has delivered over 20,000 of the product to buyers in over 44 countries including embattled Ukraine, as it strug ...
  • British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is looking to create a new organization focused on artificial intelligence (AI) to bring together allied nations and industry leaders. This organization, called the ...
  • Amazon is planning to invest £3.2 billion ($4 billion) in Anthropic, a competitor to ChatGPT. This partnership will make Anthropic's advanced AI models more accessible to AWS customers. Initially, £1 ...
  • UK businesses will be behind the design and manufacture of the world’s most advanced submarines, following the awarding of £4 billion of contracts. The signing of the Detailed Design and Long Leads (D ...
  • Aviation Procurement: Winging it?

    25 Sep 2023 House of Commons
    The role of air power has evolved since the First World War to become fundamental to modern warfare. Defined in UK doctrine as “the ability to use air capabilities in and from the air, to influence th ...
  • An increasing array of tech companies are directing their attention toward the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), aiming to harness state-of-the-art breakthroughs in order to meet forthcoming battlefie ...

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