Northrop Grumman is moving toward a deeper industrial role in Australia as the government seeks to establish sovereign solid rocket motor production for long-range strike systems.
Lockheed Martin expects demand from U.S. allies to remain strong beyond individual budget cycles, prompting the defense group to expand production, maintenance and sustainment capacity closer to customers in Europe.
Raytheon and Lockheed Martin’s Javelin Joint Venture has selected Tata Advanced Systems as its prime Indian partner for potential co-production of the Javelin All Up Round.
Northrop Grumman sees missile defense becoming an increasingly important growth business, with demand stretching from integrated air defense systems in the Middle East to interceptor propulsion, U.S. homeland defense and national security space.
Northrop Grumman has received a $7 million DARPA contract to integrate diamond cooling into semiconductors for military radar and communications.
The project is the company’s largest investment in the United States and expands capacity for several major American military aviation programs.
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has appointed retired Royal Air Force Air Vice-Marshal Tom Burke to lead its strategic development in the United Kingdom as Britain moves from the MQ-9A Reaper to the Protector RG Mk1.
Rheinmetall plans to invest a three-digit-million-euro sum in a new logistics and technology centre at Kassel-Calden Airport, an expansion of its existing Kassel site and local technology development.
Five of the Nordic region’s largest defence and technology companies will anchor a new industry forum intended to convert closer regional cooperation into deployable capabilities.
Lockheed Martin Chief Executive Jim Taiclet is pressing for a broader shift in U.S. defense procurement toward long-term, commercially structured contracts that give weapons makers greater confidence to invest their own capital before orders arrive.
The U.S. Navy has awarded Castelion a $89,997,162 firm-fixed-price order to advance its Blackbeard hypersonic strike weapon toward Early Operational Capability.
DEUTZ shareholders have overwhelmingly approved the financing structure for the company’s acquisition of FFG Flensburger Fahrzeugbau Gesellschaft.
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