October 21, 2024 | International, Aerospace
France eyes aircraft carrier, frigate order in 2025 spending plan
The French government has proposed to lift the 2025 defense budget to €50.54 billion (US$55 billion) from €47.23 billion this year.
November 21, 2023 | International, Security
In Episode 27 of The Pilot Project Podcast, Goddard shares his experiences as a CH-149 Cormorant pilot conducting SAR missions and rescues.
https://skiesmag.com/news/pilot-project-podcast-paul-goddard-flying-sar-missions-ch149-cormorant/
October 21, 2024 | International, Aerospace
The French government has proposed to lift the 2025 defense budget to €50.54 billion (US$55 billion) from €47.23 billion this year.
September 7, 2018 | International, Aerospace, Naval, Land, C4ISR
By: Aaron Mehta WASHINGTON — Last December, Ellen Lord sat down with reporters and told them that the reorganization of the Pentagon's Acquisition, Technology and Logistics office would be a two-year process. Now, however, Lord believes her Acquisition and Sustainment office will beat that target, easily. “I believe we are going to be pretty squared away” by the first quarter of calendar year 2019, Lord told Defense News in an interview following her appearance at the second annual Defense News Conference. “I believe those last critical slots — a lot of [deputy assistant secretary of defense] slots, a few director slots — will all be filled by March of '19. We're excited to get going on the work,” she said. The AT&L reorganization included splitting the office into two new units — the undersecretaries of Acquisition and Sustainment, led by Lord, and of Research and Engineering, led by Mike Griffin. In July, Deputy Secretary of Defense Pat Shanahan released a memo — obtained first by Defense News — finalizing the structures of the new organizations. Full article: https://www.defensenews.com/smr/defense-news-conference/2018/09/06/as-reorganization-should-be-completed-a-year-ahead-of-time
July 11, 2024 | International, Land
SATURN will deliver new advantages to operators who rely on timely and accurate communications to inform key decisions in the field.