DefenceTalkExelis has received a contract valued at more than $9 million to provide advanced military air traffic management capabilities to the Saudi Arabian National Guard (SANG). Under this foreign military sales contract, Exelis will supply the GCA-2020 precision ground control approach radar to support the SANG’s growing aviation mission requirements. The contract was awarded by […]https://www.defencetalk.com/exelis-to-supply-high-performance-radar-to-saudi-national-guard-60233/

DefenceTalkThe U.S. military said Tuesday it has awarded contracts to three companies to design an experimental spaceplane conceived as a reusable, unmanned booster with costs, operation and reliability similar to modern aircraft. The companies selected to develop the XS-1 spaceplane are Boeing, working with Blue Origin; Masten Space Systems, working with XCOR Aerospace; and Northrop […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-military-awards-contracts-to-design-reusable-spaceplane-60176/

DefenceTalkRussia’s new Angara launch vehicle will not be used as an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) First Deputy Head Alexander Ivanov said on Monday, July 14, reports ITAR-TASS. “This will not be done. This is a space vehicle only. Because of its characteristics, it cannot be used as an intercontinental ballistic missile,” […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russias-angara-rocket-not-to-be-used-as-icbm-60178/

DefenceTalkWelcome to Steve Smith’s world. It’s a place where big is small, small is big and anything is possible. Smith works as a graphic designer at the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center. The 3-D-printer guru uses the medium to design, make and improve displays. He works closely with NSRDEC scientists and […]https://www.defencetalk.com/natick-improves-understanding-with-3-d-printed-models-60173/

DefenceTalkThe Army has started migrating all its enterprise applications and systems to designated core data centers as directed by Under Secretary of the Army Brad R. Carson in a June memo. Migration must be complete by the end of fiscal year 2018. Carson’s memo is the first step to establish policy and procedures that will […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-army-enterprise-apps-must-move-to-core-data-centers-60112/

DefenceTalkNASA plans to send Google smartphones with state of the art 3D sensing technology into orbit to use them as eyes and brains for its newest sci-fi inspired machinery. The gadgets will be installed into hovering robots and boost the agency’s Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites, otherwise known as SPHERES, on the International […]https://www.defencetalk.com/3d-google-smartphones-to-help-nasa-robots-navigate-in-space-60095/

DefenceTalkChina and Russia have signed a memorandum of understanding agreeing to cooperate in developing navigation satellite systems. The document was signed on Monday by the China Satellite Navigation Office and Russian Federal Space Agency on the sidelines of the on-going China-Russia expo in Harbin, capital of northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province. Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang […]https://www.defencetalk.com/china-russia-to-cooperate-in-satellite-navigation-60093/

DefenceTalkWashington will push Beijing to crack down on cyber-spying and halt the theft of corporate data when the two powers meet next week for high-level talks, a US diplomat told AFP Wednesday. Concerns about widespread Internet hacking as well as regional maritime tensions will be among a slew of issues on the table during two […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-to-push-china-on-hacking-at-high-level-talks-60021/

DefenceTalkThe Moscow-based Kommersant newspaper claims citing a source in the Russian Defense Ministry that the last satellite of the Oko-1 ballistic missile attack early warning system has been lost. In April, the 71XC satellite codenamed Cosmos-2479 stopped sending signals and became de-facto unmanageable, the source said, adding that attempts to reanimate it had failed. The […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-loses-its-last-early-warning-satellite-59992/

DefenceTalkThe Russian military is to test its new mobile communications system, which is superior to its foreign alternatives, during the Vostok-2014 strategic exercise in Russia’s Eastern Military District, the Defense Ministry announced Thursday. “In the course of the Vostok-2014 strategic exercise, which will be conducted in September of this year in the Eastern Military District, […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-to-test-new-mobile-communications-system-during-vostok-2014-exercise-59980/