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General Dynamics NASSCO has handed to the U.S. Navy a second mobile landing platform-class vessel that is designed for amphibious staging and vehicle transfer operations. The General Dynamics subsidiary began construction work on the USNS John Glenn in April 2012 and plans to undock the third MLP ship in November, NASSCO said Wednesday. Fred Harris, NASSCO […] More

Saab has opened a marketing office in Gaborone, Botswana in a move to further its presence in the sub-Saharan Africa region and add on to company’s offices in South Africa and Kenya. “With the growing economies in many countries in Africa there is a growing demand for defense and security products,” Jerker Ahlqvist, head of the Botswana office, said Wednesday. […] More

DynCorp International will provide aircraft, pilots and a maintenance team to Touchdown Helicopters in support of an aerial fighting program run by the state of New South Wales’ rural fire service under a potential three-year subcontract. Chris Bernhardt, DynCorp president, said Wednesday the deal is part of the company’s strategy to provide commercial and international customers the similar […] More

L-3 Communications has reorganized the company’s business segments in a move that Chairman and CEO Michael Strianese called an effort to further the company’s technology and sales push. John McNellis has been named president of the new aerospace systems segment that combines the former platform and logistics segment and the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems […] More

CGI Group is supporting an OpenText-hosted annual innovation event that showcases enterprise-grade information management technologies globally. CGI has been working with OpenText for more than a decade and serves as a premier-level sponsor of this year’s OpenText Innovation Tour, CGI said Tuesday. “As one of our important global partners, CGI is helping OpenText take our innovations […] More