DefenceTalkElbit Systems Ltd. announced today that AEL International Ltd., a subsidiary of AEL Sistemas S.A., which is a Brazilian subsidiary of Elbit Systems, was awarded a contract to supply electro-optic observation systems to Savis Tecnologia e Sistemas S.A, a subsidiary of Embraer Defesa & Segurança S.A., wholly-owned by Embraer S.A.. The contract value is in […]https://www.defencetalk.com/elbit-to-supply-electro-optic-observation-systems-for-brazilian-border-protection-47653/

DefenceTalkSenior Defense Department officials testified yesterday before Congress highlighting the activities the department has undertaken to save an estimated $1 billion and provide a balanced national security space program. Gil I. Klinger, deputy assistant secretary of defense for space and intelligence, and Douglas L. Loverro, deputy assistant secretary of defense for space policy, appeared before […]https://www.defencetalk.com/dod-officials-detail-1-billion-in-space-program-savings-47630/

DefenceTalkThe US army is working to limit its dependence on GPS by developing the next generation of navigation technology, including a tiny autonomous chip, the director of the Pentagon’s research agency said Wednesday. DARPA, the research group behind a range of spy tech and which helped invent the Internet, was also the driving force behind […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-army-seeks-new-technology-to-replace-gps-47624/

DefenceTalkIn the wake of the recent announcement that laser weapons will be put on U.S. Navy ships, the need for reliable, high-voltage shipboard power has become a matter of national security, officials said at this week’s Electric Ship Technologies Symposium outside Washington, D.C. The Office of Naval Research (ONR)-sponsored event featured some of the world’s […]https://www.defencetalk.com/lasers-bring-new-urgency-to-electric-power-research-47616/

DefenceTalkA global rights group launched a campaign on Tuesday to ban Terminator-style “killer robots” amid fears the rise of drone warfare could lead to machines with the power to make their own decisions about killing humans. Human Rights Watch said it was creating an international coalition to call for a global treaty that would impose […]https://www.defencetalk.com/rights-group-launches-campaign-to-ban-killer-robots-47593/

DefenceTalkElbit Systems has been awarded an approximately $40 million contract to supply a country in Africa with the Wise Intelligence Technology (WiTTM) System for Intelligence Analysis and Cyber Defense. The system will be supplied within two years. A highly advanced end-to-end solution, WiT supports every stage of the intelligence process, including the collection of the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/elbit-to-supply-african-nation-with-wise-intelligence-technology-system-47597/

DefenceTalkWhat if scientists and engineers could scavenge energy for warfighters, like bottom feeders scavenge in the ocean? The U.S. Army Research Laboratory, or ARL, along with the Army science and technology community, is pursuing novel technology aspects of the Army’s Operational Energy Strategy. Energy Scavenging is just one way ARL experts are getting more from […]https://www.defencetalk.com/army-scientists-scout-energy-solutions-for-the-battlefield-47590/

DefenceTalkA Sandia engineer who trained U.S. soldiers to avoid improvised explosive devices (IEDs) has developed a fertilizer that helps plants grow but can’t detonate a bomb. It’s an alternative to ammonium nitrate, an agricultural staple that is also the raw ingredient in most of the IEDs in Afghanistan. Sandia has decided not to patent or […]https://www.defencetalk.com/sandia-offers-non-explosive-fertilizer-formula-47581/

DefenceTalkChina and Romania were by far the largest sources of confirmed hacking attempts last year, with China’s mostly from state-controlled sources aimed at data theft, a new report said Tuesday. Verizon’s 2013 Data Breach Investigations report said 30 percent of 621 confirmed attacks were sourced back to China, 28 percent to Romania, and another 18 […]https://www.defencetalk.com/china-romania-key-sources-of-hacking-report-47569/

DefenceTalkThe large, multiyear, single prime contract model is yielding to a small, short-term, multivendor model in the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) command and control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR) market. By 2017, spending will focus on maintenance and incremental upgrades to mature technologies. New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, US DoD C4ISR […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-dod-c4isr-spending-to-focus-on-maintenance-of-existing-platforms-47457/