Local military discounts
All of this week's top headlines to your email every Friday.
Headlines June 19, 2013
Veterans The ruins of Normandy: Unpublished color photos taken in northern France in 1944 show the devastating impact of the Allied Force’s battle to defeat the Nazis in World War II The battle-scared landscapes of Normandy in northwest France are sharply brought into focus in a series of never-before-published color images taken in the aftermath...
RAAF purchases Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile training capability
Navy photograph The EA-18G Growler carries Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile. The U.S. Navy signed a Foreign Military Sales agreement with the Australian Government for an AARGM training capability, marking the first FMS s...
Wireless spectrum essential to defense operations, official says
The Defense Department depends on the wireless spectrum for nearly all of its activities, the DOD chief information officer said in Washington, D.C., June 18. Essentially, everything at the Defense Department is connected to the network, Teri Takai told attendees at a Washington Post forum. In an effort to ensure commanders are fully informed of...
Dassault SystËmes launches co-design to target, a new industry solution experience
Dassault SystËmes has announced the launch of its latest aerospace & defense industry solution experience, Co-Design to Target. In todayís aerospace & defense industry, many companies fail to reach their budget, schedule and specification targets due to increasingly complex systems, overly aggressive plans and the premature incorporation of new technologies. In addition, the design ph...
Redesigned helicopter weapons mount brings increased fields of fire
Navy photograph An engineering team at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. is working towards bringing a new capability to the war fighter through the redesign of a UH-1Y helicopter weapons mount. The redesign provides extend...
GA-ASI, CAE expand partnership beyond Canada
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc., a leading manufacturer of Remotely Piloted Aircraft, tactical reconnaissance radars, and electro-optic surveillance systems, and CAE, a world leader in simulation and mission training systems, today announced that the companies have signed a Memorandum of Understandin to explore working together to integrate CAEís simulation systems with GA-ASIís RP...