Defense Market

The Department of Defense announced today the release of a cloud computing strategy that will move the department’s current network applications from a duplicative, cumbersome, and costly set of application silos to an end state designed to create a more agile, secure, and cost effective service environment that can rapidly respond to changing mission needs. [...]

Today’s infantry soldiers increasingly depend on multiple batteries to power weapons, communications devices and GPS equipment. Typical energy storage requirements for the platoon leader include eight different types of batteries. Advancements in ultracapacitor technology can reduce battery weight carried by soldiers by enabling the use of field chargeable devices. Military applications of ultracapacitors include: aunmanned [...]

“Quantum Computation and Communication is one of five themes for future logistics innovation identified by the Army Logistics Innovation Agency (LIA) at Fort Belvoir, Virginia”, says the article in Army Logistician. The article, published in the official magazine for Army logistics, marks quantum computing as one of five promising technologies that may improve logistics effectiveness [...]

The Turkey-Israel rift under the pretext of Mavi Marmara incident disrupted the Israeli military contracts for the supply of UAVs to Turkey. Though the Israeli Defense Ministry does not disclose figures on its UAV exports to Turkey, but they are estimated at about $300 Mln annually over the past five years in equipment, maintenance, support [...]

No, says the market study “U.S. Military Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) Market Forecast 2010-2015“. New budget and political realities facing the U.S. government are calling for smaller, more effective and less risky solutions to win military and paramilitary engagements in the years ahead. Despite the general downturn trend in the defense market, the UAV segment [...]