* China’s state media announced that both President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang are members of a new “Internet security and informatization” executive group whose purpose seems to be a mix of maintaining internal control and countering external...
* US Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James announced that an RFP for the USA’s next strategic bomber will be released “probably in the fall.” Lockheed Martin and Boeing have publicly announced their team twice, in January 2008 then with an October...
* Airbus announced sales up 5% to 59.3 billion euros ($81.5B) and orders worth 218.7 billion euros (about $300B) for 2013. Defense sales grew by 4% to 12.1 billion euros ($16.6B) thanks to initial A400M deliveries. Their defense backlog is down 4.6% to 47.3 billion...
* DARPA wants to make DoD procurement more secure with its Supply Chain Hardware Integrity for Electronics Defense (SHIELD) program. This would be done through small, very cheap components dedicated to authenticating the origin of their host electronic parts. The...
* Last Friday DID pondered who would stand up to Vladimir Putin’s meddling in Ukraine, and the answer came quickly: Ukrainians. Since then, events moved at warp speed as the opposition stepped up the pressure with its newfound parliamentary majority. President...