Austal Australia has established a strategic commercial partnership with Greenroom Robotics, advancing their previous collaboration in the completed Patrol Boat Autonomy Trial for the Royal Australian Navy. The latest partnership will extend the two companies’ cooperation to develop watercraft-based products, services and technologies geared toward crew reduction and safer operations of autonomous vessels that Austal...
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Kongsberg Expands Missile Production Capacity With New US Factory
Kongsberg Defence and Aerospace plans to build a U.S. missile production facility in James City County, Virginia, following the Norwegian company’s establishment of a similar factory in Australia. The Pennsylvania facility will be equipped to assemble, upgrade and repair Naval Strike Missile and Joint Strike Missile. It was established on Kongsberg’s expectation that it could...
New DXC Center of Excellence in Spain to Showcase AI-Powered Cloud Platforms
DXC Technology has expanded its operations in Spain with a new center of excellence in Zaragoza designed to help public and private sector customers manage critical workloads, infrastructure and operations in the cloud and ensure data security. The center will feature the latest DXC cloud platforms that use artificial intelligence to support applications and solutions...
Thales Names Nokia’s Phil Siveter as New UK Chief Executive
Phil Siveter, chief executive of Nokia United Kingdom & Ireland, will replace Alex Creswell as the new CEO at Thales UK starting in November. Creswell will also step down as chairman of Thales UK but will remain with the company as group advisor and a member of its advisory panel and the board of Thales...
L3Harris Presents Communications Equipment Support Center Model for Indo-Pacific Users
L3Harris has unveiled a new model for a support center dedicated to warfighters and first responders using the company’s communications systems in the Indo-Pacific region. The new Indo-Pacific Regional Support Centre model, presented at the Land Forces International Land Defence Exposition, will start operating in 2025 to expedite field service repairs. The facility will integrate...
Capgemini Names Paul Margetts as APAC CEO, Rob Walker as UK Lead
Capgemini has named two new members of its leadership team: Paul Margetts, CEO of the French IT and consulting firm’s Asia Pacific Strategic Business unit, and Rob Walker, managing director of its U.K. division. Margetts, who joined Capgemini in 1992, was appointed Capgemini UK unit managing director and group executive committee member in 2018. Previously,...
Airbus Acquires German Cyber Solutions Provider Infodas
Airbus Defence and Space has completed the acquisition of German company infodas, a provider of cybersecurity and IT solutions for defense and critical infrastructures. The acquisition, announced in March, comes as Airbus improves its cybersecurity capabilities and expertise to protect its products, operations, customers and ecosystem from threats in an increasingly digitalized and connected defense...
David Rodgers Appointed as Ultra I&C’s Global Sales VP
Ultra Intelligence & Communications has named David Rodgers as vice president of global sales. Rodgers joined the company from Silvus Technologies, where he served as senior director of sales for unmanned systems and the Department of Defense market and played a key role in achieving sales revenue targets and securing a large U.S. government contract....
QinetiQ Australia Appoints Andrew Forbes as Chief Growth Officer
QinetiQ Australia has named Andrew Forbes as its new chief growth officer. Forbes, who announced the appointment in a LinkedIn post, moved to QinetiQ after serving as an operational lead at Elbit Systems Emirates for a major military modernization program providing a multidomain, coalition interoperable data link. He was also in charge of a soldier...
Juliette Wilcox Takes Lead Role at Ultra Intelligence & Communications’s UK Cyber Division
Juliette Wilcox, former cybersecurity ambassador of the U.K. Department for Business and Trade’s U.K. Defence and Security Exports, has been appointed president of Ultra Intelligence & Communications’ U.K. Cyber division. In her new position, Wilcox heads more than 200 employees in the division’s locations in Maidenhead, Farnborough and Gloucester. The company said the new cyber...