Americas
Boeing won an $8.1 million deal, which provides for the manufacture, assembly and delivery of various peculiar support equipment in support of the F/A-18E/F program for the Navy. Work will be performed in St. Louis, Missouri, and is expected to be completed in December 2025.
The US Air Force has announced the selection of new bases to receive its latest fighter jets. Barnes Air National Guard Base in Massachusetts will be the host of the next F-35A squadron. Meanwhile, Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans and Fresno Air National Guard Base in California will replace their F-15C/D Eagles with F-15EX Strike Eagles. Each new squadron will consist of 18 aircraft, and the decision to select these respective bases was made after conducting site surveys to ensure that they have the infrastructure capacity to facilitate the mission. The selection process also took into account community support, environmental factors, and cost.
Middle East & Africa
Elbit Systems announced that it was awarded a contract worth approximately $102 million to supply artillery systems to an international customer. The contract will be performed over a period of eight years. Under the contract Elbit Systems will supply a battalion’s worth of ATMOS (Autonomous Truck Mounted Howitzer) 155mm/52 caliber truck-mounted howitzers systems.
Europe
Poland on Tuesday announced plans to install thousands of cameras and motion sensors along its border with Russia’s Kaliningrad enclave to prevent what Warsaw says are illegal migrant crossings orchestrated by Moscow. Polish Interior Minister Mariusz Kaminski said the system would join a barbed wire fence being built on the 200-kilometer (124-mile) frontier.
Asia-Pacific
The Royal Australian Air Force has accepted three defense deployable air traffic management and control systems (DDATMCS) from Indra to improve its international airspace management and deployment. The solutions enable guidance over en-route air traffic and support rapid deployment of aerial vehicles in many domains.
Australia and the US will hold their largest bilateral exercise this year, with approximately 30,000 military personnel expected to participate. The 14-day Exercise Talisman Sabre 2023 will be conducted from July 22 to August 4. Drills will be held in Queensland, the Northern Territory, New South Wales, and Western Australia.
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