In today's increasingly digitised battlefield users of command and control systems are flooded with an ever growing amount of data. But how can all this data be processed into intelligence that informs, rather than overwhelming? Textron Systems, one of the companies working on a solution, tells us about new tools for military information management.

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To date the best method for de-mobilising IEDs has been to jam the signals used to set them off – isolating that signal has, however, proved to be a needle in a haystack kind of challenge. A new multirole jammer built by Airbus could change all that, as Dr Gareth Evans reports.

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As the Australian Government zeroes in on a new fleet of armoured fighting vehicles under its biggest ever land acquisition programme, industry teams are aligning themselves to get a part of the action. Claire Apthorp reports.

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In this issue: A new era for the US space launch market, the US and India team up for business, tackling RCIEDs with smart jamming, insights into emerging IT challenges from IFS, the new naval force mission against trafficking in Libya and more.

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Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) signed an agreement with French armoured vehicle maker, Nexter Systems to establish a joint holding company, Leidos received a $4.3bn contract to modernise the US DoD’s healthcare management system, and Airbus Helicopters completed factory acceptance of the first of 15 EC135 T2+ helicopters for the ADF’s JP 9000 Phase 7 helicopter aircrew training system project. Army-technology.com wraps up the key headlines from July 2015.

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You might think it highly unlikely that live samples of anthrax could mistakenly find their way to 19 US states and, at the time of writing, four foreign countries - but that’s exactly what happened. So, how was this possible and what processes are in place to contain and control deadly bacteria?

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In this issue: Defining a defence strategy for the UK, the race is on for Land 400, the politics behind Israel’s David’s Sling programme, the news from Paris Air Show, the Ford carrier’s bumpy ride into service, the US Navy’s new littoral tech trinity and more

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Historically the largest weapons manufacturing country in Europe, Germany has recently implemented new policies to curb foreign military sales, specifically those destined for the Middle East. Continuing this policy shift places additional strain on German arms manufacturers who have already fallen behind on domestic and foreign orders, further stalls the weapons development projects and creates repercussions felt throughout the global defence industry, as Simon Williams reports.

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On 1 March 2015, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines was able to report the lowest number of landmine casualties since records began. Dr Gareth Evans reports on the methods being used to finally win the war on landmines and finds out why so much still needs to be done.

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Northrop Grumman unveiled the first Nato alliance ground surveillance (AGS) aircraft, the US Army awarded the first full rate production order to General Dynamics to build additional Warfighter Information Network-Tactical Increment 2 systems, and the combined Australian-New Zealand Task Group completed training of more than Iraqi 700 soldiers. Army-technology.com wraps up the key headlines from May 2015.

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