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AUSTRALIA'S naval shipbuilding industry must face up to further radical reform, including the option of a single naval constructor, according to a defence report commissioned by the South Australian government.
It says Australia must capitalise on an estimated $250 billion of planned investment by Defence in 48 new warships over the next 30 years to build a sustainable naval shipbuilding industry. |
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Monday 14 December, 2009 10:30 AM |
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Creation , the UK-based defence vehicle design and engineering company, has brought forward its plans for the 6x6 variants of its Zephyr SRV (Specific Requirements Vehicle), following formal requests to licence the design – and other configurations of the vehicle - for local manufacture and assembly overseas. The company is also taking the opportunity to introduce a number of styling changes to develop the appearance of all its protected vehicle platforms. |
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Sunday 13 December, 2009 12:36 PM |
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The failure of a new Russian intercontinental ballistic missile during testing was the cause of spectacular spiraling blue lights in the skies over northern Norway, analysts said Thursday.
Russia's defense ministry said a Bulava missile was launched Wednesday by a nuclear submarine submerged in the White Sea and its third stage suffered an unspecified failure.
Photographs and amateur video footage of the bluish-white in the Norwegian skies have been circulating on the Internet since Wednesday and spawning speculation of UFOs. The ministry did not confirm the lights were the result of the failed launch but military analysts said they clearly came from the Bulava explosion. |
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Friday 11 December, 2009 11:40 AM |
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Sterling Heights-based General Dynamics Land Systems received a $203 million contract to equip the U.S. Army with a next-generation fleet of Stryker eight-wheeled combat vehicles, the company announced today.
The award last week by the U.S. Army Tacom Life Cycle Management Command in Warren includes an initial $42.6 million payout for GDLS to complete design and engineering work in Sterling Heights and to build a demonstrator for testing by the military next year. |
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Friday 4 December, 2009 01:12 PM |
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The platform-level integration tests on the engineering model of the Galileo in-orbit validation satellites have been completed at the Thales Alenia Space facility in Rome.
The platform is currently undergoing functional testing. Delivery of the engineering model payload from Astrium UK is expected in December.
These tests are an important step in the process of building and launching the first four Galileo satellites. Integration testing is carried out to verify the correctness of the interfaces between the unit or subsystem under test and the larger system into which it has been integrated. The scope of functional testing is to demonstrate that the integrated units or subsystems are compliant with their design specification. |
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Friday 4 December, 2009 10:06 AM |
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A sophisticated electronic early warning system aimed at combating soaring levels of piracy on the high seas has been developed by engineers at BAE Systems.
The company is working in partnership with major ship owners, to assess commercial requirements in order to create the most effective solution to this increasing threat to maritime security. |
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Wednesday 2 December, 2009 01:24 PM |
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Scientists and engineers have developed a ‘smart armor’ that has the ability to recognize the size of bullets it is shot with and generate electrical power upon impact.
The brains behind the operation, according to Discovery News, are at U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) in Michigan.
"As a kid, everyone played those video games that showed you how much armor you had left as a percentage bar," TARDEC contractor John Wray told Discovery. "That's exactly what we're working on here and more." |
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Thursday 26 November, 2009 02:24 PM |
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Northrop Grumman announced a milestone in the development of the U.S. Navy's Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier following the completion of a design phase. |
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Thursday 26 November, 2009 10:18 AM |
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Iraq – Fifty years of experience as an architect, a master’s degree and a resume that reads like a travel guide ranging across Europe and the Middle East and even Japan: these are just a few of the things Abrahim M Oda al Timimi brings with him as the leader of the Iraqi Facilities Engineering Team at Contingency Operating Base Basra.
The unsung heroes are the guys who come along last, they put their heads down and tails up and have the job of building a "normal" environment in very difficult circumstances.
As an old timer once said to me, ….."you can loose a few of the top brass and life pretty much goes on as normal, but you loose guys who make things happen, for instance the guy who repairs the toilet and there will soon be major problems" |
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Saturday 21 November, 2009 02:52 AM |
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Work on the F-35 joint strike fighter program is far behind schedule and over budget despite the completion Saturday of a milestone test flight.
Reports prepared by the Defense Contract Management Agency for Defense Department officials show that Lockheed and other contractors are months late on deliveries of test airplanes and components for future production aircraft. |
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Monday 16 November, 2009 04:52 PM |
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General Tactical Vehicles (GTV), a joint venture between AM General, LLC, and General Dynamics
Land Systems, formed to compete to develop and produce the U.S. Army and U.S.
Marine Corps' Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV), successfully completed the
Critical Design Review (CDR) this week. |
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Thursday 5 November, 2009 11:21 AM |
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The Navy’s top admiral told a think-tank audience yesterday he wants more unmanned aircraft in the sea service, and he wants ‘em in a hurry. In particular, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Gary Roughead said he’d like a robotic attack aircraft that can land and take off from a carrier. As it happens, I saw a full-scale mock-up of just such a plane a few weeks ago. |
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Wednesday 4 November, 2009 01:15 PM |
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Northrop Grumman
Corporation's milli-Hemispherical Resonator Gyroscope (mHRG)-based
precision pointing concept has been selected by the U.S. Army Night Vision and
Electronic Sensors Directorate (NVESD) for exploration under the Far Target
Location Improvement Program Broad Agency Announcement. |
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Tuesday 3 November, 2009 07:16 PM |
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Far from being rich , he does not own yachts or airplanes. He belongs to the generation that appreciates the value of human recognition. “Are there many famous designers who have a monument built in their honour while they are still around? Or a museum? Do many have presidents of their countries coming to wish them happy birthday? I do!” says Kalashnikov. “I have no celebrity attitude. I am the same man I have always been. I just keep working.” |
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Thursday 29 October, 2009 11:30 AM |
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Technology , a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), has been awarded a
$110.3 million contract to modernize classroom training technology by the U.S.
Army Headquarters Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC). This is a one-year
task order awarded under the Information Technology Enterprise Technology
Solutions -2 Services (ITES-2S) contract. |
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Thursday 29 October, 2009 12:22 AM |
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A rocket designed to replace the aging space shuttle is set for its first test-flight, despite questions over the future of the programme.
The 100m-long Ares I-X has a four-hour launch window for blast-off from Nasa's Kennedy Space Center. |
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Tuesday 27 October, 2009 04:26 PM |
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A new Pentagon study has affirmed previous findings that Lockheed Martin Corp's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter aircraft, the costliest U.S. arms purchase program, will require billions of dollars more than planned, and more time, an online news service said
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Monday 26 October, 2009 05:04 PM |
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Wrightstyle, based in the UK, supplies its specialist glass and glazing systems worldwide. Denis Wright is the company’s managing director, and here explains how modern steel glazing systems have come of age in today’s uncertain world. |
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Wednesday 21 October, 2009 10:20 PM |
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Engineers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center and White Sands Test Facility teamed up with Dallas-based Armadillo Aerospace through an Innovative Partnership Program agreement to design and test a rocket engine that runs on liquid oxygen and liquid methane, for use on the moon or other extraterrestrial surfaces. Armadillo developed the engine, JSC designed and fabricated the nozzle and provided oversight on the project, and White Sands contributed the testing facilities. The project was jointly funded through the NASA Innovative Partnership Program office, the Propulsion and Cryogenic Advanced Development project, and Armadillo Aerospace. |
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Wednesday 21 October, 2009 04:16 PM |
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Even as the aerospace and defense industries forecast additional corporate downsizings and a net reduction in hiring in 2010, companies are recruiting engineers to work in specialized areas such as computer hardware, materials, and mechanical and electrical design. |
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Wednesday 21 October, 2009 03:31 PM |
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