SP's MAI - Issue No. 8 | April 16-30, 2013
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In mocking its military, the pulp government should heed former US President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s famous words, “As the nation’s final safeguard, the army cannot afford a failure in either circumstance.
For years, for capital procurements, the country had been following a ‘Single-Stage Two-Bid System’ wherein both the technical and commercial bids were submitted simultaneously.
The Bureau of Civil Aviation Securtiy (BCAS) is contemplating tighter security check norms at airports, beginning with the IGI Airport in New Delhi.
The Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and BrahMos—the supersonic cruise missile manufacturer in the country—have forged the partnership for long-term support towards all variants of BrahMos programmes at a meeting held in Hyderabad recently.
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto is credited to be the founder of Pakistan’s atomic bomb. In 1956 he played a key role in setting up the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC).
The Indian Air Force has conducted its largest exercise ever, Live Wire 2013, between March 18 and April 4, 2013.
A treaty on mutual legal assistance in criminal matters was signed between India and Azerbaijan on April 4, 2013, in New Delhi.
Sikorsky Aerospace Services (SAS) has announced the opening of a new UH-60 Black Hawk Helicopter Flight Simulator Training Center at the Colombian Air Force Base in Melgar.
The Strategic Forces Command (SFC), fired the medium-range Agni-II missile propelled by the solid rocket propellant system, with a range capability of over 1,700 km utilising the range facility at Wheelers Island...
The last aircraft in the limited series production (LSP) programme of the light combat aircraft (LCA)-Tejas (LSP-08) took off on its maiden flight recently from the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) airport in Bengaluru.
Symantec has observed that a recent malicious spam campaign focused on users in India. The e-mails contained a malicious attachment...
The new headquarters organisation of EADS became effective from April 1, including the setting up of a single operational headquarters in Toulouse. In the frame of the reorganisation, a total of 116 positions currently based in Paris and 75 positions currently based in Munich are transferred to Toulouse.
The Brazilian Navy’s latest BAE Systems built warship has set sail for the first time to be put through her paces on an extensive programme of sea trials off the UK coast.
World military expenditure totalled $1.75 trillion in 2012, a fall of 0.5 per cent in real terms since 2011...
China and the United States will set up a working group on cyber security, US Secretary of State John Kerry has said.
The new EADS Board of Directors has elected Denis Ranque as its Chairman and has reappointed Tom Enders as Chief Executive Officer. The Board also approved an 18-month share repurchase programme up to €3.75 billion.
Ricardo has received an order from prime contractor General Dynamics Land Systems-Force Protection Europe (GDLS-FPE), for the assembly of 76 additional vehicles...
Embraer Defense & Security announced at the LAAD Defence & Security trade fair, that it is beginning to promote and sell the KC-390...
Melbourne’s Crown casino recently was at the centre of hightech security scandal, with police investigating a breach worth tens of millions of dollars.
Insitu has announced the launch of its partnership with Santos Lab, a leading/innovative developer and manufacturer of hand-launched unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).
Brazil will buy 34 1A2 Gepard antiaircraft tanks from Germany to provide security at major religious and sporting events, like the upcoming World Cup. The tanks are likely to be used when Brazil hosts the World Cup next year...
The contract to develop a sketch and technical project of the Russian-Indian perspective multi-functional fifth-generation fighter aircraft (PMI/FGFA) was completed. The fighter design was fully developed.
A passenger entered a secure area through an exit, breaching security at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport recently.
Lockheed Martin’s Havoc 8x8, an eightwheel-drive armoured modular vehicle, successfully completed amphibious testing as part of its evaluation for the marine personnel carrier (MPC) competition.
Lockheed Martin delivered the first C-130J Super Hercules to the Republic of Tunisia recently, marking the first delivery to an African country.
Security lapse was exposed at the Goa Legislative Assembly complex during the state-wide Sagar Kawach exercise initiated by the security forces...
ITT Exelis (XLS) has received a contract from Selex ES to manufacture the binocular i-Aware tactical mobility night vision goggle (TM-NVG) for the Italian Army’s Future Soldier programme.
Boeing handed over the seventh production P-8A Poseidon to the US Navy on schedule March 29, marking the first delivery...
The Government of India and Government of Russian Federation have signed on April 10, 2013, in Moscow a regulation defining the structure, functions and procedure of the joint commission which was established by an agreement signed on December 21, 2010, in New Delhi...
Denel Mechem, the company which designs and manufactures the durable vehicle Casspir, have upgraded the hull protection...
Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works division has unveiled the concept design of the company’s unmanned carrier launched airborne surveillance...
N.R. Wasan, IPS, at present Additional Director General, National Investigation Agency (NIA) will look after the duties of Director General...
Lockheed Martin’s PAC-3 missile successfully detected, tracked and intercepted a tactical ballistic missile (TBM) in a lower tier project office flight test recently at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.
BlueBird Aero Systems — a leader in the design, development and production of micro, mini and small tactical UAS and peripheral equipment...
Top experts from India and Britain recently discussed cyber security and online security, a pressing international issue demanding global cooperation.
iRobot Corp., Bedford, Massachusetts, is being awarded a $2,87,76,935 modification to previously awarded contract for the procurement of Man Transportable Robotic System production systems...
Insitu Inc. has announced the successful first maritime flight of the US Navy and US Marine Corps small tactical unmanned aircraft system RQ-21A.
The Gujarat Government has decided to set up cyber security cell in every district of the state, according to the Minister of State for Home Rajnikant Patel.
Since December 2012, Meggitt Training Systems (MTS) has been awarded delivery orders worth $7.9 million to support the US Army’s Targetry...
Canada-based CAE has announced that it has sold five full-flight simulators (FFSs) as well as a series of training devices...
Recently dozens of heavily armed gunmen descended on a major grid station outside Peshawar in Pakistan, killing at least seven people and destroying equipment. Parts of Peshawar went dark as a result.
The British Army in January this year conducted its largest virtual battle simulation, involving 220 soldiers. The experiment was carried out at the Army’s Land Warfare Centre in Warminster, Wiltshire.