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SP's MAI - Issue No. 12 | June 16-30, 2013

Issue Features

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  MILITARY
  New Defence Procurement Procedure 2013 comes into force

  The Ministry of Defence has promulgated the Defence Procurement Procedure 2013 on June 1. The new procedure aims to balance the competing requirements of expediting capital procurement, developing a robust indigenous defence sector and conforming to the highest standards...

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  AEROSPACE / MARKETING FEATURE
  Soloy portable heliports

  A product has been launched by SOLOY LLC & its channel partner 365DESIGN in India to support the defense and private aviation industry...

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  INTERNAL SECURITY / VIEWPOINT
  Ignoring ground reality
  By Lt General (Retd) P.C. Katoch

  The Home Ministry must take full control with a 24 x 7 operations room and coordinate the counter Maoist operations including implementation...

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  CORPORATE
  EUROJET celebrates delivery of 1,000th EJ200 production engine

  EUROJET Turbo GmbH, the European consortium behind the EJ200 engine project is celebrating the delivery of its 1,000th EJ200 production engine.

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  TECHNOLOGY
  Warrior Web helps soldiers carry heavy loads

  A Soldier carries a 61-pound load while walking in a prototype DARPA Warrior Web system during an independent evaluation by the US Army. Warrior Web seeks to create a soft, lightweight under-suit that would help reduce injuries and fatigue common for Soldiers...

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  MILITARY
  India offers Thailand collaboration in defence production

  The Defence Minister, A.K. Antony recently offered to discuss with Thailand possible areas of cooperation and collaboration in defence production.

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  AEROSPACE
  Bell Boeing gets contract for 99 V-22 Osprey aircraft

  The Bell Boeing V-22 programme, a strategic alliance between Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. and Boeing, has been awarded a five-year US Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) contract for the production and delivery of 99 V-22...

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  INTERNAL SECURITY
  PM reiterates two-pronged strategy to deal with LWE

  Addressing a Conference of Chief Ministers on Internal Security, Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh called for coordinated efforts on the part of the Centre and the states to deal with the Naxal menace.

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  CORPORATE
  Thomas Kirchmaier appointed President of General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems

  General Dynamics has announced that Thomas W. Kirchmaier has been elected Vice President of the corporation and appointed as President of General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems...

• TECHNOLOGY
  SARL's future computing capabilities

  The US Supercomputers Army Research Laboratory engineers rely on to influence the direction of future armour solutions and other unprecedented capabilities for the soldier moved into a space large enough to house five supercomputers each with 4,000 to 20,000 processors each.

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  MILITARY
  British Army receives its first 'drive-by-wire' and remotely controlled combat engineer vehicle

  BAE Systems’ Terrier combat engineer vehicle has been officially accepted into service by the British Army.

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  AEROSPACE
  Eurofighter marks 75th Anniversary of 36th Italian Air Force Wing

  On May 31, 2013, Eurofighter honoured the 75th Anniversary of the 36th Italian Air Force Wing by presenting to its X Squadron...

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  INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  Post-Laden raid security lapse

  Much after the US Navy Seals had conducted one of the most stealthy operations to take out dreaded terrorist Osama bin Laden, the then CIA Director and presently Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta...

• CORPORATE
  General Dynamics and Sentient join hands for automatic targetdetection plug-in

  General Dynamics Mediaware and Sentient Vision Systems Pty Ltd. have created a technical partnership which combines Sentient’s Kestrel Land and Maritime target-detection software with General Dynamics Mediaware’s D-VEX next-generation tactical video-exploitation system.

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  MILITARY
  US Navy's third joint igh speed vessel launched

  USNS Millinocket (JHSV 3) was successfully launched from the Austal USA shipyard in Mobile, Alabama, recently. The third joint high speed vessel is a versatile, non-combatant, transport ship...

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  AEROSPACE
  Boeing receives US Army contract for up to 215 Chinook helicopters

  In an agreement that will save the US Government more than $800 million...

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  INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  Venezuelan President gets pushed at inaugural ceremony

  The newly elected Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro began his innings as President with a security incident.

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  MILITARY
  US Marine Corps selects Oshkosh Defense for next-gen aircraft rescue firefighting vehicle

  The US Marine Corps has selected Oshkosh Defense, a division of Oshkosh Corporation, to deliver its new fleet of P-19 replacement aircraft rescue...

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  AEROSPACE
  New light multi-role Ka-226T demos in mountains of Kazakhstan

  Russian Helicopters, a subsidiary of Oboronprom, part of State Corporation Rostec has launched the first demonstration flights...

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  INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  Chewbacca actor stopped at airport

  The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents in Denver briefly stopped Star Wars franchise actor Peter Mayhew recently as he was boarding a flight with a cane shaped like one of science-fiction’s most iconic weapons.

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  MILITARY
  First carrier countermeasure antitorpedo launched

  USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) conducted the first aircraft carrierborne end-to-end at-sea test of the surface ship torpedo defence (SSTD) system, the US Navy has announced.

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  AEROSPACE
  Second production Airbus Military A400M maiden flight

  The second production A400M aircraft, with French Air Force markings and temporary French civil registration, took off for its first flight on June 10. Known as MSN8...

• INTERNAL SECURITY / BREACHES
  Chhattisgarh CM admits security lapses

  Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh has admitted the “security lapses” that had led to the killing of key Congress leaders by Naxalites recently.

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  MILITARY
  DDG 51 multi-year procurement contract awarded

  The US Navy awarded two contracts for the DDG 51 fiscal years 2013-17 multiyear procurement (MYP) for DDG 51 Arleigh Burke class destroyers. General Dynamics Bath Iron Works (BIW) is being awarded...

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  AEROSPACE
  Sikorsky receives US Navy award to build CH-53K operational test helicopters

  Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation has received a $435 million US Navy contract to build four production-representative CH-53K helicopters...

• MILITARY
  Patriot's successful integration of PAC-3 MSE missile

  Raytheon Company’s combat-proven Patriot air and missile defence system successfully test fired the PAC-3 MSE (missile segment enhancement) missile at White Sands Missile Range, recently.

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  AEROSPACE
  Eurocopter's X3 creats aviation history

  The Eurocopter X3 hybrid helicopter has opened the frontiers of aviation by attaining a speed milestone of 255 knots (472 kmph) in level flight on June 7.

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  AEROSPACE
  F-35A completes first in-flight missile launch

  An F-35A conventional take-off and landing aircraft completed the first in-flight missile launch of an AIM-120 over the Point Mugu Sea Test Range on June 5.

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  AEROSPACE
  Eurocopter UK bags support contract for 24 Royal Air Force Puma Mk2 helicopters

  Eurocopter UK’s role in maintaining the United Kingdom’s military helicopter capabilities has been further expanded with the award of a three-year...

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  AEROSPACE
  Boeing EMARSS aircraft completes first test flight

  A US Army and Boeing team completed the first flight of the first of four enhanced medium altitude reconnaissance and surveillance system (EMARSS) engineering, manufacturing and development aircraft on May 22.

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  AEROSPACE / UNMANNED
  French Harfang UAVs fly 100th sortie over Mali

  During the night of June 5-6, 2013, a Harfang UAV carried out the 100th sortie in support of Operation Serval, France’s current military mission in Mali.

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  AEROSPACE / UNMANNED
  Elbit showcases selfprotection system for UAS at Paris Air Show

  Elisra will launch at the Paris Air Show a self-protection EW system...

• AEROSPACE
  ITT Exelis completes technology maturation phase of US Jammer programme

  ITT Exelis (XLS) has successfully completed the 33-month technology maturation phase of the US Navy’s nextgeneration Jammer (NGJ) programme.

• AEROSPACE
  First Tiger AD delivered

  The first Tiger helicopter of the HAD variant (Hélicoptère d’Appui-Destruction, or Support and Destroy Helicopter) has been delivered to the French army aviation base at Le Cannet des Maures, in the Var district of south-eastern France.

• AEROSPACE / UNMANNED
  Controp awarded for developing stabilised miniature payloads for small UAVs

  Controp has recently been awarded by Technologies for Technological Innovation in Aerospace for development of the STAMP family of stabilised miniature payloads for small UAVs.