April 29, 2019 | International, Aerospace, Naval, Land, C4ISR, Security, Other Defence
By: Aaron Mehta
WASHINGTON — Overall military expenditures rose 2.6 percent between 2017 and 2018, to hit a total of $1.82 trillion dollars, according to new research from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
The total from 2018 is 5.4 percent higher than 2009, and represents a 76 percent increase over 1998, a 20-year period.
Sixty percent of global military spending came from five countries: The United States ($649 billion), China ($250 billion), Saudi Arabia ($67.6 billion), India ($66.5 billion) and France ($63.8 billion). Russia ($61.4 billion) and the United Kingdom ($50 billion) were the other two countries to spend $50 billion or more on defense.
However, there are ups and downs among the biggest spenders. While the U.S. (4.6 percent, the first overall growth since 2010), China (5 percent) and India (3.1 percent) increased their respective military spending year over year, Saudi Arabia cut its spending by 6.5 percent, France by 1.4 percent and Russia by 3.5 percent.
And overall defense spending per gross domestic product fell to 2.1 percent in 2018, representing $239 per global citizen, a 0.1 percent decrease over one year and a 0.5 percent decrease over 10 years.
Notably, Russia ranked outside the top five for the first time since 2006. China, meanwhile, increased its military spending for the 24th consecutive year, and its spending is almost 10 times higher than it was in 1994; however, researchers warn that Chinese growth may slow in the coming year.
“The annual rate of growth of China's military spending has slowed steadily since it reached a post-2009 high of 9.3 percent in 2013. The growth of 5.0 percent in 2018 was the lowest annual increase since 1995,” the authors note. “China has followed a policy of linking growth in military spending with economic growth. With its economic growth slowing in 2018 to the lowest level in 28 years, slower rates of growth in the coming years can be expected if China continues to follow this policy.”
SIPRI, which is widely considered to be the authority on military expenditures and exports, having gathered such data for decades. Other key developments, as noted by the researchers:
https://www.defensenews.com/global/2019/04/28/heres-how-much-global-military-spending-rose-in-2018
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April 2, 2019 | International, Aerospace, Naval, Land, C4ISR, Security, Other Defence
Par Michel Cabirol Cinq des dix start-up accompagnées par Generate, l'accélérateur du Groupement des Industries Françaises de Défense et de Sécurité Terrestres et Aéroterrestres (GICAT), sont devenues des scale-up. Qui a dit que la défense et la sécurité n'étaient plus un domaine d'innovations... Deux ans après le lancement de son accélérateur de start-up dans le domaine de la défense et de la sécurité (Generate), le Groupement des Industries Françaises de Défense et de Sécurité Terrestres et Aéroterrestres (GICAT) tire un bilan positif des deux premières promotions de start-up accompagnées. Sur les dix ayant intégré Generate dès le départ, cinq ont franchi un cap pour devenir les fameuses scale-up (ou TPE). Ce sont le cas d'Aleph Networks, qui explore le deep et le dark web, de CerbAir (lutte anti-drone), de Diodon (drones), d'Internest, qui améliore la sécurité des vols des drones et des hélicoptères et, enfin, de l'éditeur de logiciels Linkurious, qui fournit des analyses de réseaux sociaux. En revanche, Othello, qui a développé une approche scientifique du comportement humain, Numalis, qui analyse les logiciels pour détecter et corriger les vulnérabilités numériques, Physip, qui propose des solutions d'analyse automatique de l'activité cérébrale basées sur l'EEG (électroencéphalogramme) et Uniris, qui fournit des services inviolables d'authentification, vont rester une année supplémentaire au sein de Generate afin de d'essayer de passer le cap de start-up. Enfin, Sterblue, qui édite une solution de pilotage automatique adaptable à tous les drones du marché, va se consacrer aux marchés civils. Cette start-up nantaise, créée par des anciens d'Airbus, a réussi fin 2018 une première levée de fonds de 2 millions de dollars. 8 millions d'euros de levées En deux ans, 50% des start-up de Generate ont réussi à lever des fonds, nouer des partenariats industriels, remporter des contrats et se projeter à l'export. Ainsi, elles ont réussi à lever 8 millions d'euros de fonds auprès d'investisseurs publics, privés et notamment des Venture Capital d'industriels du GICAT. Elles ont réalisé un chiffre d'affaire de 4,8 millions d'euros et près d'une start-up sur deux est aujourd'hui présente à l'export et y remporte des marchés. Elles emploient aujourd'hui près d'une centaine de personnes, dont la moitié a été recrutée sur les deux dernières années. Enfin, elles ont remporté sept trophées et prix aussi bien dans la défense et la sécurité, mais également auprès d'organisme civil. Pour le GICAT, ces résultats confirment sa volonté de poursuivre le recrutement de nouvelles pépites, en développant son système de parrainage, en se faisant connaitre auprès d'investisseurs et en accompagnant nos partenaires institutionnels (Délégation générale de l'armement, Agence Innovation défense, Armées, Ministère de l'intérieur, etc.). Generate accueille ou a accueilli au total 28 start-up depuis ses débuts. https://www.latribune.fr/entreprises-finance/industrie/aeronautique-defense/les-start-up-specialisees-dans-la-defense-et-la-securite-poussent-tous-azimuts-811829.html
February 6, 2019 | International, Aerospace
The U.S. Army has selected GE Aviation's T901-GE-900 engine for the Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) phase of the Improved Turbine Engine Program (ITEP), the U.S. Army's endeavor to re-engine its Boeing AH-64 Apaches and Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawks. “We are honored to be chosen by the Army to continue powering their Black Hawks and Apaches for decades to come,” said Tony Mathis, president and CEO of GE Aviation's military business. “We've invested in the resources and infrastructure to execute immediately, and our team is ready to get to work on delivering the improved capabilities of the T901 to the warfighter.” GE has powered Black Hawks and Apaches for the past four decades with its T700 engine, racking up more than 100 million flight hours of combat-proven experience. Through continuous upgrades and technology advancements, GE has doubled the power of derivative engines in the T700 family over its lifetime and reduced its cost to the government by 50 percent. GE carried over the benefits of the T700 engine's single-spool core architecture, ensuring that the T901 engine is ready to continue delivering combat readiness to the warfighter over the next four decades. The T901's single-spool core design is the key to its low cost, growth, reliability, maintainability and reduced life-cycle costs. The full modularity of the T901's single-spool core provides the Army with superior fix-forward maintainability. Combat units can swap out modular parts of the engine in the field and travel with fewer full-sized spare engines, simplifying logistical footprints and supply lines. The fully modular design also offers superior growth potential at a lower cost through incremental improvements to engine modules, a significant advantage to meet the Army's FVL requirements. The U.S. Army is also expecting the ITEP engine to meet Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft requirements for Future Vertical Lift (FVL). GE has invested $9 billion in maturing technologies applicable to the T901 and more than $300 million to develop and test turboshaft-specific technologies. Additionally, GE has invested more than $10 billion in their supply chain over the past decade, including eight new facilities, ten plant expansions and one-and-a-half million square feet of new, advanced manufacturing space in the U.S. This robust, first-in-class supply chain stands ready to deliver T901 engines to the Army. https://www.verticalmag.com/press-releases/u-s-army-selects-ges-t901-engine-for-itep/