The European Defence Agency (EDA) has launched a new project to establish a safe-communication extension for NATO Generic Vehicle Architecture (NGVA) in terms of functional safety.
Airbus has launched two defence research and development projects that it is coordinating as part of the 2021 European Defence Fund (EDF).
The OCCAR, on behalf of the French and Italian defence procurement agencies, has signed a contract with Eurosam (a joint venture company of Thales and MBDA) for the production of the Aster air defence missiles.
"We need to reduce our strategic dependencies in the space sector, protecting supply chains and developing critical space technologies," writes Josep Borrell, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.
European Union military assistance to Ukraine will be topped up by a further 500 million euros ($543 million) through European Peace Facility.
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The integrated Modular Unmanned Ground System (iMUGS) project consortium demonstrated the usage of unmanned military systems in arctic conditions in Finland.
Spaceopal’s two equal shareholders – Telespazio and DLR-GfR – have signed an agreement to renew their partnership for management of operations in the Galileo programme in the years and next generations to come.
“Germany is the largest economy in Europe, so it should also be our goal to have the strongest and best-equipped army in the EU," said Germany's defence minister Boris Pistorius.
"Europe can bolster its defence to a new level by developing shared European capabilities with even greater determination," says Esa Rautalinko, President and CEO of Patria.
Germany has a new defence minister: SPD politician and former interior minister of Lower Saxony, Boris Pistorius, will succeed the outgoing incumbent, Christine Lambrecht.
European Defence Agency, the European Commission and Member States are working on the secon Military Mobility Action Plan.
Director-General Timo Pesonen has signed, on behalf of the European Commission, a Copernicus Cooperation Arrangement with the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) of Japan.
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