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RoKA to acquire three new small UAV types from 2021

Jane's Defense News - Wed, 02/12/2020 - 15:27
South Korea’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) announced on 2 December that it has signed contracts to acquire three new types of small rotary-wing...
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EU seeks synergies to boost Europe's strategic position in space

Jane's Defense News - Wed, 02/12/2020 - 14:11
The European Union’s future strategic autonomy must include the development and protection of space assets – including early warning capabilities, advanced satellite...
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EATC seeks to better support member nations, selected EU and NATO states

Jane's Defense News - Wed, 02/12/2020 - 14:10
The European Air Transport Command (EATC) has set itself a timeline of two years to develop concrete proposals to better support its seven participating nations, as well...
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The new EDA magazine is out!

EDA News - Wed, 02/12/2020 - 13:18

The Agency’s latest European Defence Matters magazine (N°20) is now online with the main spotlight put on the EU’s first Coordinated Annual Review on Defence (CARD), steered by EDA as the CARD penholder, for which the final report was presented to Defence Ministers on 20 November. A crucial piece of work in the overall effort to move towards more synergies and increased coherence between Member States´ defence planning, spending and capability development through cooperation, the CARD certainly deserved the magazine’s cover story!

We analyse the key CARD findings and recommendations and take Member States’ pulse on the potential take-up of the collaborative opportunities identified by the CARD. We also look at the increasing number of PESCO projects whose implementation benefit from EDA support; also a reminder that the CARD is not an end in itself but a pathfinder towards new collaborative projects which must eventually lead to joint defence capabilities.

Readers of our magazine will also hear from the German EU Presidency’s defence & security priorities and get an insight into the ongoing work on the EU’s Strategic Compass. 

Furthermore, we shed light on the Commission’s new Incubation Forum on Circular Economy in European Defence as well as on EDA’s cooperation with the EU Satellite Center.

Finally, we present the winning projects of the 2020 EDA Defence Innovation Prize and assess at the prospects of EU defence beyond 2030. 

Have a look immediately and enjoy your reading!

The magazine is available here.

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Security paradox poses conundrum for French governance

Jane's Defense News - Wed, 02/12/2020 - 12:56
France is facing renewed protests over a controversial draft security law which, among other provisions, stipulates that no-one may post, on any platform, videos in...
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Italy begins receiving HH-139B helos

Jane's Defense News - Wed, 02/12/2020 - 12:55
Italy has begun receiving the first of the 17 Leonardo HH-139B helicopters that it has ordered for combat search-and-rescue (CSAR) duties.
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ARRC certified as NATO's first warfighting corps headquarters since Cold War

Jane's Defense News - Wed, 02/12/2020 - 10:31
The Gloucester-based Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) was certified on 17 November as NATO’s first warfighting corps headquarters since the Cold War, the Bundeswehr...
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The new EDA magazine is out!

EDA News - Wed, 02/12/2020 - 09:37

The Agency’s latest European Defence Matters magazine (N°20) is now online with the main spotlight put on the EU’s first Coordinated Annual Review on Defence (CARD), steered by EDA as the CARD penholder, for which the final report was presented to Defence Ministers on 20 November. A crucial piece of work in the overall effort to move towards more synergies and increased coherence between Member States´ defence planning, spending and capability development through cooperation, the CARD certainly deserved the magazine’s cover story!

We analyse the key CARD findings and recommendations and take Member States’ pulse on the potential take-up of the collaborative opportunities identified by the CARD. We also look at the increasing number of PESCO projects whose implementation benefit from EDA support; also a reminder that the CARD is not an end in itself but a pathfinder towards new collaborative projects which must eventually lead to joint defence capabilities.

Readers of our magazine will also hear from the German EU Presidency’s defence & security priorities and get an insight into the ongoing work on the EU’s Strategic Compass. 

Furthermore, we shed light on the Commission’s new Incubation Forum on Circular Economy in European Defence as well as on EDA’s cooperation with the EU Satellite Center.

Finally, we present the winning projects of the 2020 EDA Defence Innovation Prize and assess at the prospects of EU defence beyond 2030. 

Have a look immediately and enjoy your reading!

The magazine is available here.

 
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Vulcain

Military-Today.com - Wed, 02/12/2020 - 07:35

French Vulcain Armored Engineer Vehicle
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UNITED STATES : CIA awaits Biden's marching orders on China, Saudi Arabia, and UAE

Intelligence Online - Wed, 02/12/2020 - 05:30
The director of the CIA is traditionally one of the last nominations to be made in the transition from one US administration to the next. Whoever lands the role will have a full agenda, with a number of major issues
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UNITED KINGDOM/UNITED STATES : OX Intel slow to develop despite innovative new bias tool

Intelligence Online - Wed, 02/12/2020 - 05:30
Despite promising beginnings, OX Intel, which has been supported by British defence ministry and has a prestigious advisory board, is
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SAUDI ARABIA : Mohammed bin Salman counts on APCO to promote Saudi nuclear programme

Intelligence Online - Wed, 02/12/2020 - 05:30
According to our sources, the Emirati office of the American consulting firm APCO Worldwide recently won the contract to handle
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RUSSIA : Putin ensures key roles in business for security officials' offspring

Intelligence Online - Wed, 02/12/2020 - 05:30
Viktor Khmarin Jr was appointed chairman of the hydro-electric giant RusHydro, which operates 70 plants in Russia and Armenia, on
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CHINA : Head Aerospace seeks to become China's top GEOINT supplier abroad

Intelligence Online - Wed, 02/12/2020 - 05:30
Head Aerospace is fine-tuning how it markets its spatial imagery services abroad, as its key partner, satellite maker Changguang Satellite
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LEBANON/FRANCE : Paris sees window for central bank audit

Intelligence Online - Wed, 02/12/2020 - 05:30
In the wake of US auditor Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) pulling out of its contract to audit Lebanon's central bank,
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UNITED STATES/CHINA : Marseille becomes focus of US-China submarine cable battle

Intelligence Online - Wed, 02/12/2020 - 05:30
A new report from the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (CFR) on confronting Beijing's growing influence, published in the final
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UNITED STATES : Would-be candidates circle CIA top job

Intelligence Online - Wed, 02/12/2020 - 05:30
Current CIA director Gina Haspel, who held her own under a difficult White House, will pass on the baton to
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UNITED STATES : Diversity a high priority for intelligence appointments

Intelligence Online - Wed, 02/12/2020 - 05:30
For the first time, three African-Americans make up the incoming US administration's transitional intelligence team : Vincent Stewart, the first
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PALESTINE : Spymaster Dahlan prepares return from exile

Intelligence Online - Wed, 02/12/2020 - 05:30
Mohammed Dahlan, the former chief of Palestine's Preventive Security Force in Gaza, who lives in exile in Abu Dhabi, recently
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TURKEY : MIT installs its Syrian proxies in Nagorno Karabakh

Intelligence Online - Wed, 02/12/2020 - 05:30
According to our sources, the MIT, Turkey's intelligence service, is ordering its Syrian proxies to move into conquered territory in
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