The United States and Canada showed commitment to ensuring seamless movement of goods along their borders with the staging of an exercise on supply chain disruption. Held in early June and hosted by the Department of Homeland Security’s Supply Chain and Resilience Center, the Department of Transportation and Transport Canada, the joint drill featured a...
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Intel Partners With Equity Firm Apollo in Irish Chip Plant; David Zinsner Quoted
Intel and New York-based private equity firm Apollo Global Management have entered a co-investment program to fund the chipmaker’s silicon wafer manufacturing plant in Ireland. According to the companies’ statement, Apollo-managed funds and affiliates will invest $11 billion to acquire 49 percent of the Irish plant’s equity, with Intel holding the 51 percent controlling interest...
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IBM, Rapidus Extend Semiconductor Partnership to Chiplet Packaging Tech; Dario Gil Quoted
Japanese semiconductor company Rapidus and multinational technology firm IBM are expanding their partnership on developing lower-cost, high-performing 2-nanometer semiconductors to include packaging technology for the chiplets. The companies said their expanded collaboration calls for IBM to provide packaging technology to Rapidus for joint efforts on further innovation. The initial partnership agreement, announced in December 2022, calls...
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Balfour Beatty to Support Rolls-Royce Expansion for New Royal Navy, AUKUS Projects; Terry Meighan Quoted
U.K.-based global infrastructure group Balfour Beatty will support the Rolls-Royce Submarines’ Raynesway campus expansion to meet the growing needs of the British Royal Navy and Australia’s $3.1 billion, 10-year commitment to the AUKUS submarine program. Rolls-Royce said Balfour Beatty will build new manufacturing facilities and offices in the submarine plant in Derby, England, doubling its...
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Lockheed Secures Polish Defense Ministry Approval for Wisla Offset Projects
Lockheed Martin confirmed that the Polish Ministry of National Defence has approved five Wisla phase one offset projects focused on Patriot Advanced Capability-3 Missile Segment Enhancement and air and missile defense. In partnership with local industry players Wojskowe Zaklady Elektroniczne and Wojakowe Zaklady Lotnicze Nr. 2, Lockheed helped Polish companies increase their technical capabilities and...
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Lockheed Partners With Singaporean Agency for Enhanced F-16 Maintenance Support
Lockheed Martin and Singapore’s Defence Science and Technology Agency have agreed to create a new data pipeline infrastructure to enable smarter maintenance support for the Singapore Air Force’s F-16 fleet. The infrastructure will use digital technologies allowing both parties to exchange fleet and supply chain datasets and improve data analytics. Lockheed and DSTA expect the...
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NATO Allies Gather in Sweden to Boost Security Cooperation on Critical Supplies
More than 320 representatives from NATO countries and their allies, including Ukraine and Switzerland, attended the NATO Civil Protection Group Seminar from March 5 to 6 in Stockholm, Sweden, to exchange views and share best practices for securing critical supplies. NATO said representatives from the European Commission and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development...
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National Intelligence Strategy Tackles US Rivalries With China
The United States’ strategic competition with China and Russia is among the key goals addressed in the National Intelligence Strategy released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Thursday. The strategy also draws attention to the larger role the Intelligence Community must play in helping build a resilient critical infrastructure for the...
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Chertoff, Exiger Pool Capabilities Versus Foreign Pressure on Federal Supply Chains
The Chertoff Group, a security and risk management consultant, said it has partnered with software-as-a-service company Exiger to provide federal contractors with solutions to manage the risk of foreign ownership, control, or influence in their supply chains. The tools that Exiger will contribute in the tie-up include supply chain mapping technologies and strategic FOCI risk...
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Space Systems Command To Discuss Supply Chain Challenges, Opportunities With International Industry Partners
Space Systems Command will discuss supply chain challenges and opportunities with its international industry partners during a “reverse industry day” event on Oct. 25 and 26, SSC spokesperson Edgard Nava told C4ISRNET. The consultation’s focus will be on developing an allied approach for a resilient global supply chain for space, with attendees including representatives from...