German Air Force chief: The service is undergoing upgrades to meet future challenges By: Lt. Gen. Ingo Gerhartz January 11 The German commitment to NATO is a fundamental pillar of our national stability and peace, and the Luftwaffe is at the heart of our national engagement within the alliance. The challenge for NATO is not only in the reorientation toward a common defense against a peer competitor, but also to respond proportionally to adversaries testing our security across multiple domains every day. The access to - and use of air and space - are of the upmost national and alliance importance; and therefore, they must be protected from misuse by state, industrial and individual hostile actors.
Leonardo Hack Allegedly Targeted Details Of nEUROn UCAV Program
Leonardo Hack Allegedly Targeted Details Of nEUROn UCAV Program
Preliminary inquiry documents in the Leonardo hack suggest hackers were targeting nEUROn drone, C-27J and ATR-72 documents.
For almost two years, between May 2015 and January 2017, the IT infrastructure of Leonardo, the Italian multinational aerospace and defense company, and the 8th largest defence contractor in the world, was targeted by a persistent cyber attack (known as Advanced Persistent Threat or APT), carried out with installation in systems, networks and in the target machines, of a malicious code whose aim was the creation of active communication channels suitable to allow a slow and continuous leakage of technical and business data.
Spain Is Now Officially The Third Nation Of The Future Combat Air System (FCAS) Programme
Spain Is Now Officially The Third Nation Of The Future Combat Air System (FCAS) Programme
A rendering of the Next Generation Fighter and the Remote Carriers, both part of the wider FCAS programme. (Photo: Airbus)
Spain will be an equal nation along with France and Germany in the participation to the demonstrator phase of FCAS.
The Spanish industry has signed the initial framework contract for the Future Combat Air System’s (FCAS) Phase 1A Technology Demonstrators activities, completing the onboarding process, started in February, as an equal nation in the originally Franco-German programme. Airbus announced during its annual Trade Media Briefing that they will have the lead in the Spanish industrial effort for the New Generation Fighter (NGF) demonstrator and will also be the prime contractor for the Low Observability development.