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SP's MAI - Issue No. 1 | January 01-15, 2015

Issue Features

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  MILITARY / VIEWPOINT
  Facilitating defence procurement
  By Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd),Former Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Training Command, IAF

  The move to restructure the existing regulations so as to permit middlemen in the processing of tenders for the procurement of defence equipment...

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  AEROSPACE
  Defence Minister's visit to Hindon Airbase

  The Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar familiarised himself at the Air Force Station Hindon recently with the operations being carried out by the C-17 Globemaster III and the C-130J Super Hercules...

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  INTERNAL SECURITY / VIEWPOINT
  Terror by the sea
  By Lt. General P.C. Katoch
  Former Director General of Information Systems, Indian Army

  What is relevant for India is that while the Pakistani society may want peace, what matters in Pakistan is not civil society, but the army and the ISI and their band of so-called ‘good’ terrorists.

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  CORPORATE
  Lockheed Martin's Exoskeleton wins awards

  Lockheed Martin’s Fortis Exoskeleton received several accolades in 2014 highlighting its innovative technology design and its benefit to users in an industrial setting.

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  MILITARY / VIEWPOINT
  Allowing Middlemen is Good Move
  By Lt. General P.C. Katoch (Retd)

  It should be left to the company to decide how much commission it wants to pay the agent. The bottom line is: middlemen were always there who are now being legalised.

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  AEROSPACE
  Small step for LCA (Navy), a giant leap for Indian naval aviation

  It was a defining moment when LCA (Navy) Prototype 1 (NP1), the first indigenously designed and developed fourth-plus generation combat...

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  INTERNAL SECURITY / VIEWPOINT
  Need to revamp coastal security
  By Air Marshal B.K. Pandey (Retd)

  Although in this latest episode, a terrorist attack has possibly been foiled through well coordinated action between the intelligence agencies and the ICG, it is a grim reminder that the threat to national security...

• CORPORATE
  HAL Chairman calls for stepping up indigenous helicopter production

  Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has called for concerted efforts to intensify indigenous production of helicopters during the national seminar on Make in India – Civil and Military Helicopters...

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  MILITARY / INDO-US RELATIONS
  Strengthening bilateral relations
  By Dr Vivek Lall

  The invitation to President Barack Obama to visit India in January is a measure of the significance India puts on its strategic partnership...

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  AEROSPACE
  Textron AirLand Scorpion milestone

  Textron AirLand has completed the Scorpion’s 266th flight test hour, one year after its first flight on December 12, 2013. “Today’s anniversary flight was a fitting tribute to our teams who have worked tirelessly to meet...

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  INTERNAL SECURITY
  Himmat app launched

  The Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh has launched ‘Himmat’, an application for women’s safety. Lauding the Delhi Police for launching the emergency call application for women in distress...

• CORPORATE
  Krauss-MaffeiWegmann takes over vehicle business of Diehl Defence

  On December 17, 2014, Diehl Defence and Krauss-MaffeiWegmann (KMW) concluded a contract on the acquisition of Diehl Defence Land System´s GmbH (DLS) operative business by a subsidiary of KMW.

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  MILITARY / FEATURE
  French defence industry wants a share in Make in India programme
  By Ranjeet Kumar

  The French defence industry is enthused over the prospects of participating in India’s ‘Make in India’ programme...

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  AEROSPACE
  First US Army missilefighting radar blimp airborne to defend Washington DC

  For the first time, the US Army lofted a blimp equipped with a new cruisemissile and drone-fighting radar system high above rural Maryland.

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  INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  Gunmen kill 12 French satirical magazine journalists

  Two hooded Islamist gunmen have attacked the Paris office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, killing ten journalists and editors...

• CORPORATE
  Meggitt acquires PECC from United Tech

  Meggitt plc, the leading international engineering group specialising in aerospace, defence and energy markets, has acquired Precision Engine Controls Corporation from United Technologies Corporation...

• AEROSPACE
  DRDO tests 1,000-kg class guided glide bomb

  A 1,000-kg glide bomb designed and developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) was successfully tested recently in the Bay of Bengal of the coast of Odisha.

• INTERNAL SECURITY
  MHA proposes investigative units on crimes against women

  The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) proposes to set up Investigative Units on Crimes against Women (IUCAW), in 20 per cent of the districts of each state on a 50:50 cost sharing basis with the states.

• INTERNAL SECURITY
  Appointment of Special Secretary

  The competent authority has approved the appointment of Ashok Prasad, IPS, presently working as Special Director, Intelligence Bureau (IB), as Special Secretary (Internal Security)...

• INTERNAL SECURITY
  Tracking illegal immigrant families, US approach

  The US Homeland Security Department is experimenting with a new way to track immigrant families caught crossing the border illegally and then released into the U.S.: GPS-enabled ankle bracelets.

• INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  Security shortcomings at diplomatic posts

  The top watchdog for the US State Department warned that US personnel overseas remain at “increased risk” due to security shortcomings at diplomatic posts, including the “egregious” use...

• INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  Smuggling drugs inside prison

  A US union representing correctional officers calls the discovery of hundreds of pills inside a prison a “major security breach.” AFSCME Iowa Council 61 President Danny Homan...

• INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  Atlanta airport tightens security after gun-smuggling

  Atlanta’s airport said it was tightening security following allegations that two men with ties to Delta Air Lines smuggled more than 130 firearms from Georgia to New York over the course...