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US Army to cut 12 brigade combat teams by 2017, says general
The US Army will cut 12 brigade combat teams (BCTs) by the end
of 2017 as part of its force restructuring due to the Budget Control
Act of 2011, bringing the number of active-duty BCTs to 33, army chief
of staff general Raymond Odierno has revealed.
General Dynamics receives contract for 100 Eagle V from Germany
General Dynamics European Land Systems (GDLS) has secured a
contract from the German procurement agency, Bundesamt für Ausrüstung,
Informationstechnik und Nutzung der Bundeswehr (BAAINBw), to deliver 100
Eagle V protected command vehicles (PCV) for the GFF Klasse 2
programme.
iGov to produce tactical computer network for USSOCOM
The US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) has awarded a
$500m tactical local area network (TACLAN) recompete contract to iGov to
produce a tactical computer network.
German Army to receive ROSY_L smoke protection system from Rheinmetall
Rheinmetall Defence has been awarded a contract for supply of
its rapid obscurant system land (ROSY_L) smoke protection system to
boost protection of the German Army's ground vehicles.
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Iveco Defence Vehicles and Soframe Consortium
Delivers First Multi-Purpose Military Truck under PPT Programme to
French Army
Iveco Defence Vehicles and its French partner Soframe - a
subsidiary of the Alsatian Lohr Group - have handed over the first of
200 multi-purpose military vehicles of the Porteur Polyvalent Terrestre
(PPT) Programme to the French Armed Forces.
Kontron's New 3U VPX Graphics Card VX3327 Boasts
Performance of 576 GFLOPs for Superior Situational Awareness
Today at the Paris Air Show, Kontron (Hall 4 - Booth A76-B76)
introduced the VX3327, a new 3U VPX graphics card with AMD Embedded
Radeon E6760 GPU, designed to meet the latest demands in avionics and
military technology.
Offering 10x the Bandwidth, the Application-Ready
Kontron StarVX Ruggedises Mainstream Technology to Speed Deployment of
3D Reconstruction-Based Applications
Kontron's StarVX High Performance Embedded Computer (HPEC)
system brings supercomputing I/O bandwidth and performance, previously
only achieved in IT datacenters, to the battlefield.
Defense Department Contractor Orders Custom Amplifier Module from AR Modular RF
AR Modular RF, a world-class manufacturer and solution
provider of RF amplifiers, systems and modules, has been awarded a high
volume order for a new custom amplifier module, the AR-50S. |
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