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Cobham has secured an 18-month, $2.9 million contract from QinetiQ to support the Empire Test Pilots’ School and Rotary Wing Test and Evaluation Squadron based at a British military airfield in Wiltshire, England. The agreement calls for Cobham to deliver one Bell 412 HAR2 helicopter as well as provide aircrew training services and deploy maintenance personnel …

BAE Systems will lead a team comprising General Dynamics‘ U.K. land systems and international mission systems subsidiaries, Leonardo-Finmeccanica, Moog, QinetiQ and Safran Electronics to bid under the U.K. defense ministry’s project to update the Challenger 2 main battle tank fleet. The team will pursue a contract to update the tanks to the Challenger 2 …

  Babcock‘s proposed system for the British defense science and technology laboratory’s Laser Directed Energy Weapon Capability Demonstrator program will incorporate the Raytheon-built Phalanx air defense technology, Flightglobal reported Thursday. Beth Stevenson writes the LDEW-CD competition seeks a 20-millimeter laser-equipped Gatling machine gun designed to counter potential airborne threats, including unmanned aircraft systems, to naval ships. …

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected eight organizations to research and develop an armored ground vehicle that can accommodate additional armor without compromising mobility and speed. DARPA said Tuesday the agency is interested in a vehicle with track and suspension technologies, agile motion systems, 360-degree data visualization technology …

A Visiongain study, released by ReportLinker, forecasts global revenue from border security platforms and services will be approximately $16.4 billion this year. The 364-page market research report examines key factors that Visiongain believes can affect worldwide, regional and national spending on products designed to help authorities monitor cross-border activities, ReportLinker …

Kim Rupert is the senior vice president for contracts and pricing at Science Applications International Corp., where she is in charge of enterprise compliance to relevant federal regulations and business systems. As part of her role, she also serves as the company’s liaison with acquisition and contracting leaders in the …

Cyveillance has introduced new search and intelligence offerings in its cyber threat center intended to help security professionals protect their organizations from threats. The QinetiQ company said Monday the content-based search and retrieval systems work to find trademarks, fake accounts and counterfeit products in the web by scanning brand marks, …

Steve Wadey, formerly managing director of MBDA’s U.K. business, has taken on his new role as CEO at QinetiQ. Wadey, whose appointment was announced in January 2015, is tasked to steer QinetiQ’s organic-plus growth strategy and lead more than 5,000 employees in the U.K., U.S., Belgium and Australia, QinetiQ said Monday. …

A Research and Markets report has forecast the worldwide market for unmanned ground vehicles will enjoy a 31.34 percent growth year-over-year from 2014 to 2019. The research firm said Monday defense agencies use UGVs to examine terrain, supply weapons to soldiers during combat operations, and perform explosive detection and disaster search and …

Technavio is seeing a growing market appetite for unmanned ground vehicles and has predicted that the UGV market will set a compound annual growth rate of 34 percent from 2015 through 2019. Technavio’s new report attributes this market trend to a growing preference for the UGV’s functions in rescue operations, detonation …

QinetiQ‘s Cyveillance subsidiary has partnered with Centripetal Networks to combine the former’s threat intelligence streaming technology and the latter’s RuleGate platform to provide customers with actionable information on cyber threats. Cyveillance said Monday the partnership works to enable RuleGate to operationalize Cyveillance’s feeds on phishing and malicious URLs and suspect domain names and quickly activate security policies to catch …

Steve Wadey, managing director of MBDA‘s U.K. arm and co-chair of the Defense Growth Partnership, will join QinetiQ as CEO in the second quarter of this year. QinetiQ said Tuesday that Wadey will also be a member of its board of directors and the committees for risk and corporate social responsibility, nominations and security. …

QinetiQ North America has received a $17.5 million contract from the U.S. Army and a separate $30 million contract from the U.S. Navy to refurbish and modernize the services’ TALON IV military robots. QNA will provide spare parts for the TALON systems fielded in Afghanistan and Iraq and upgrade services to help …

QinetiQ has bought SR2020‘s seismic imaging and processing technology for approximately $1.7 million to complement QinetiQ’s distributed acoustic sensor and vertical seismic profiling offerings. QinetiQ acquired the SR2020 platform to allow QinetiQ’s OptaSense business to provide, analyze and interpret subsurface seismic data for customers, OptaSense said Monday. Magnus McEwen-King, a managing …

Visiongain published on Oct. 10 a new report on the $238-billion homeland security market that forecasts renewed growth for prime markets in Europe and North America and a surge in demand from Asia and the Middle East. The market analyst said the industry is poised to go through an expansion …