DefenceTalkDefense Secretary Leon E. Panetta has notified Congress that the Defense Department is prepared to implement furloughs for civilian personnel in response to the threat of sequestration. In a memo to all employees, Panetta vowed to continue working with Congress to avoid sequestration, which would add $470 billion to the $487 billion in defense spending […]https://www.defencetalk.com/panetta-notifies-congress-dod-preparing-for-furloughs-46892/

DefenceTalkThe Defense Department has revamped its approach to communicating and interacting with the defense industrial base after applying lessons learned from previous economic downturns, a senior defense official said here today. Brett B. Lambert, deputy assistant secretary of defense for manufacturing and industrial base, spoke during an Atlantic Council panel session. Lambert said he was […]https://www.defencetalk.com/pentagon-revamps-approach-to-industrial-base-46890/

DefenceTalkChina’s army controls hundreds if not thousands of virulent and cutting-edge hackers, according to a report Tuesday by a US Internet security firm that traced a host of cyberattacks to an anonymous building in Shanghai. Mandiant said its hundreds of investigations showed that groups hacking into US newspapers, government agencies, and companies “are based primarily […]https://www.defencetalk.com/chinas-pla-controls-hackers-us-it-security-firm-46887/

DefenceTalkEffective March 1, Soldiers will no longer receive tuition assistance if their college or university has not signed the Defense Department’s “Voluntary Education Partnership” Memorandum of Understanding. Soldiers who already received tuition assistance, or TA, funding for courses can complete those courses even if they extend beyond March 1. They just can’t sign up for […]https://www.defencetalk.com/soldiers-should-check-tuition-assistance-status-for-their-schools-46883/

DefenceTalkElevated system detects, tracks ascent-phase ballistic missiles during recent test Enemy tactical ballistic missiles may soon be easier to detect and track. During a series of recent tests, a Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) JLENS demonstrated tactical ballistic missile defense (TBMD) capability when it detected and tracked a total of four ballistic-missile surrogates during their ascent […]https://www.defencetalk.com/jlens-demonstrates-tactical-ballistic-missile-defense-capability-46879/

DefenceTalkThales’ I-Master radar system has successfully completed flight trials on-board a Schiebel Camcopter S-100 UAS (Unmanned Air System). The flight trials on Camcopter S-100 took place on 7 February 2013 at the Schiebel test facility in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. The flights, each lasting several hours, successfully proved both sensor performance and the stability of data […]https://www.defencetalk.com/successful-flight-trials-for-thales-i-master-on-camcopter-s-100-46877/

DefenceTalkIDEX 2013 Affordable system can enhance test facilities in the Middle East and worldwide ABU DHABI: Raytheon is unveiling Mobile Range, a comprehensive solution for complex testing missions, at the International Defence Exhibition and Conference (IDEX). Mobile Range is an integrated suite of communications, optics and telemetry capabilities that can be deployed anywhere in the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/raytheon-unveils-mobile-range-at-idex-46873/

DefenceTalkFor the first time since the mid-1990s, sales of the 100 biggest arms dealers excluding China declined in 2011 as the economic crisis prompted budget cuts, a Stockholm-based think tank said on Monday. The 100 companies’ total sales declined, including inflation, by five percent from the previous year, the first time a drop has been […]https://www.defencetalk.com/crisis-hit-arms-market-shrinks-first-time-since-1994-sipri-46857/

DefenceTalkRaytheon and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. are working together to develop a highly autonomous, unmanned electronic warfare capability based on equipping GA-ASI’s Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) with Raytheon’s Miniature Air Launched Decoy (MALD). With the Ground Verification Test phase completed November 2012 at GA-ASI’s Gray Butte Flight Operations Facility in Palmdale, […]https://www.defencetalk.com/raytheon-integrates-miniature-air-launched-decoy-with-uav-platform-46864/

DefenceTalkAmSafe Bridport Ltd is displaying Tarian for the first time in the Middle East at IDEX. This revolutionary, lightweight and flexible rocket propelled grenade (RPG) armour system has been fitted to a PARS 6×6, in collaboration with Turkey’s FNSS Savunma Sistemleri A.S. (Defense Systems Inc.) Tarian technology has been developed in response to a requirement […]https://www.defencetalk.com/new-anti-rpg-armour-system-makes-debut-at-idex-2013-46841/