Defense Market

There is a widening gap between growing UAV fleet and UAV infrastructure development, especially in such sectors as training; service, support and maintenance; and data management. This gap creates a number of market opportunities for UAV vendors, both large defense contractors and small technology companies. These are conclusions of the market study “U.S. Military Unmanned [...]

The U.S. military UAV market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 10% between 2010 and 2015, says “U.S. Military Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) Market Forecast 2010-2015″, a new research report from Market Research Media. The report finds that the annual U.S. military UAV market will surpass $12.7 Billion by 2015.

The U.S. military Unmanned [...]

The first flight of the Global Hawk UAV on NASA Mission over the Pacific Ocean has been successfully completed. The flight is the first of five NASA planned missions to study atmospheric science over the Pacific and Arctic oceans.
NASA-sponsored UAV program is just a small part of a broad U.S. government initiatives to keep [...]

Increasing global threats such as those to computer networks are prompting more NATO attention to cyber warfare operations, NATO’s top military officer said today. Navy Adm. James G. Stavridis, NATO’s supreme allied commander for Europe and commander of U.S. European Command, warned the Senate Armed Services Committee that the cybersecurity is among the greatest [...]

Rolls-Royce has released a press release with forecast of the world demand for turbine helicopters for the period 2010 – 2019. We have organized Rolls Royce’s data into the following table (Engine deliveries in units – our estimate derived from Rolls Royce’s forecast):

Here is an excerpt from the Rolls-Royce’s press release:

“Rolls-Royce projects deliveries of more [...]

Deloitte’s latest Aerospace and Defense (A&D) industry outlook report finds that, by comparison to 2008, 2009 was both uneven and not nearly as good a year.
According to the Deloitte report, merger and acquisition activity in the A&D sector in 2010 will likely accelerate. Consolidation among suppliers will result in benefits as they gain [...]

The US administration’s Quadrennial Defense Review, the main statement of U.S. military doctrine, is to be released on Feb. 1. The Review projects that overall defense spending would be as shown in the diagram.

The UAVs used for combat, reconnaissance and surveillance missions in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan are a marked as top priority in [...]

For the 2010 fiscal year, the president’s base budget of the Department of Defense rose to $533.8 billion. Adding spending on “overseas contingency operations” brings the sum to $663.8 billion. When the budget was signed into law on October 28, 2009 the final size of the Department of Defense’s budget was $680 billion, $16 billion [...]

High performance computers are used in many military situations including weapons design, testing, battlefield modeling, and Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance activities (C4ISR). Many experts believe that it is possible to design nuclear weapons with current commercially available computers. Indeed, the first atomic weapons were designed with slide rules. Nonetheless, it is [...]