Rafael Advanced Defense Systems has appointed Brigadier General Yitzhak Gat as the company's new Chairman of its Board of Directors.

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ITT Exelis has been awarded a $42 million contract by Aireon LLC to provide the Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast data processing and distribution component for its global space-based air traffic surveillance system.

Supacat and Navistar Defence have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to form a team to deliver collaborative future support to the UK Ministry of Defence's protected mobility fleet.

Rheinmetall has received an order to supply an Arab customer vital subsystems and services for state-of-the-art main battle tanks and artillery systems.

Elbit Systems EW and Sigint - Elisra will launch, at the Paris Air Show, a self protection Electronic Warfare system, well suited for Unmanned Aircraft Systems.

The Bell Boeing V-22 Program, a strategic alliance between Bell Helicopter Textron and Boeing, has been awarded a five-year US Naval Air Systems Command contract for the production and delivery of 99 V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft, including 92 MV-22 models for the US Marine Corps and seven CV-22 models for the US Air Force Special Operations Command.

DARPA's Persistent Close Air Support program is an all-digital system that lets joint tactical air controllers, such as Australian Forward Observers/JTACS, call up CAS from a variety of sources, such as aircraft or missile platforms, to engage multiple, moving and simultaneous targets.

MBDA's combat proven, UK developed, Brimstone missile carried out the world's first surface to surface salvo engagement of multiple Fast In-shore Attack Craft threats with a single button push.

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Back in April it was announced that Raytheon Missile Systems had received a $US12.7 million order to integrate the new AGM-154C-1 JSOW into the F/A-18E/F aircraft's H10E Operational Flight Program (core operating system) software.

This week the government announced the signing of a $21 million four-year contract with AMC Search Ltd to provide Pacific Patrol Boat training services.

Fairfax has been quick to report that Defence is buying a $2.2 million supercomputer to help with research for the Future Submarine program. Seattle-based Cray Inc will provide the supercomputer to the Defence Science and Technology Organisation by next month.

At the third ADM cyber security summit this week, Major General Steve Day confirmed that he would be the first head of the new Australian Cyber Security Centre.

In a five-year strategy released in April, DSTO highlighted flagged plans to move its corporate applications to the Defence Restricted Network, which provides access to the department-wide intranet and about 3,000 applications, and is managed by the department's CIOG.

TC Communications has signed another contract to provide service and support to the ADF in their project to deploy integrated Wideband Global Satellite communications capability into the ADF.