16 septembre 2021 | International, Sécurité
Les Etats-Unis, le Royaume-Uni et l'Australie annoncent la création d'AUKUS (Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States), une alliance dans le domaine de la défense. Londres et Washington aideront l'Australie à s'équiper de sous-marins à propulsion nucléaire. L'Australie a annulé un contrat conclu il y a six ans avec la France pour l'achat de 12 sous-marins à propulsion diesel-électrique sur la base du modèle Barracuda de la Marine française. Le ministre de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères, Jean-Yves Le Drian, et la ministre des Armées, Florence Parly, ont indiqué « prendre acte » de cette décision « regrettable » et « contraire à la lettre et à l'esprit de la coopération » entre la France et l'Australie, « au moment où nous faisons face à des défis sans précédent dans la région Indopacifique ».
Ensemble de la presse du 16 septembre
17 mars 2021 | International, Aérospatial, C4ISR
The ENVG-B provides enhanced capability to the entire force by delivering imagery and data from the battlefield directly to the soldier’s eye
2 février 2021 | International, Aérospatial, Naval, Terrestre, C4ISR, Sécurité
David Pugliese, Ottawa Citizen, Postmedia News André Fillion, assistant deputy minister, defence and marine procurement, at Procurement Canada is retiring. Fillion was a key official involved in the Canadian Surface Combatant and other major defence acquisition programs. Bill Matthews, deputy minister at Procurement Canada, announced that Fillion's retirement is effective April 1. Fillion came to Public Service and Procurement Canada in 2018 from national defence where as chief of staff materiel he was also involved in CSC, the fighter jet replacement and all major acquisitions. Simon Page will take over Fillion's job at PSPC as assistant deputy minister, defence and marine procurement. Matthews said Page will be on the job starting March 1. https://www.thechronicleherald.ca/news/canada/top-defence-procurement-official-to-retire-547466/
3 août 2018 | International, Terrestre
By: Aaron Mehta WASHINGTON — As European Union nations look to step up their defense-industrial projects, a trio of states on the Baltic Sea are looking to make a breakthrough in unmanned ground systems. Estonia, Latvia and Finland are pushing to develop land-based drones under the EU's Permanent Structure Cooperation framework, or PESCO, the nations announced Thursday. Between €30-40 million (U.S. $35-47 million) has been earmarked for use from the European Defence Fund to work on the project, while each of the three countries will contribute additional funds. The start date for the planned project is the first half of 2019. Launched in late 2017, PESCO seeks to help develop European-wide defense industries. Groups of nations can pitch the EU on different developments in order to secure initial funding from pooled resources. Although in its early stages, PESCO has been the topic of American concernover the potential of protectionist actions taken by the European defense market that could lock out American firms. EU nations are now looking to carve out market areas that could benefit their domestic defense-industrial bases, something acknowledged directly by Kusti Salm, director of the Estonian Defense Ministry's Defence Investments Department. Full article: https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2018/08/02/these-baltic-nations-could-build-europes-next-ground-drone