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04 Mar 15DCNS selected, through a multinational consortium, to contribute to the NATO Ballistic Missile Defence. DCNS has been selected – as part of a multinational industrial team led by the US Company Leidos – to participate in the system engineering and the integration of the NATO Ballistic Missile Defence. DCNS will provide its leading-edge expertise as a naval systems prime contractor to contribute both to the definition and specification and to the integration and test of the NATO Ballistic Missile Defence architectures. The single-award firm-fixed-price contract has a four-year base period of performance, two one-year options plus one eight-month option, and a total contract value of $77m if all options are exercised.
27 Feb 15. Selex ES has been awarded two important new contracts for the company’s Grifo radar system. In each case, the Grifo radar system was selected for its proven high performance and flexible architecture. The radar can be installed in a large range of combat aircraft and integrates easily with modern avionics suites. The Grifo family of airborne fire control radars are multimode and operate in the X-band. They offer a broad suite of field proven air-to-air, air-to-surface and navigation modes, high resolution SAR and ISAR. Grifo represents an important commercial success for Finmeccanica – Selex ES at the international level. Over 450 of the radar systems have been sold so far and the radar equips six international Air Forces. The radars, manufactured at the company’s Nerviano (Milan) site in Italy, are in service with seven types of aircraft and have accumulated over 150,000 hours of operational flight time.
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27 Feb 15. Finmeccanica – Selex ES to provide land-naval-land communications to the Polish Navy. The provision is embedded in the NATO BRASS (Broadcast and Ship-Shore) framework programme
• Land HF radio systems will be installed to allow communications with naval units thousands of kilometres away
• The systems will guarantee the effective co-ordination of naval units, land-based facilities and NATO command centres
As part of NATO’s BRASS (Broadcast and Ship to Shore) programme, Finmeccanica – Selex ES has been awarded a contract to provide the Polish Navy with NATO-interoperable telecommunications systems. The systems are for the Polish Navy’s land-based radio sites and will be provided through Page Europa, prime contractor for the BRASS programme in Poland. Finmeccanica – Selex ES’s high-power HF radio systems and their associated receivers will allow the Polish Navy to transmit and receive messages at ranges of thousands of kilometers in accordance with NATO standards ACP 127 and STANAG 5066. Within the BRASS Poland programme the Polish Navy communication networks will be integrated into the Polish Ministry of Defence’s terrestrial telecommunications networks and NATO’s land network to provide a full operational coordination between naval units at sea, national land Commands and NATO. This programme further strengthens Finmeccanica – Selex ES’s position as a reference systems provider within NATO architectures. Finmeccanica – Selex ES’s HF systems are of a new generation, state-of-the-art technical design, making the company (at its Pomezia, Rome site) one of the few manufacturers of this kind of system worldwide. Finmeccanica – Selex ES has provided similar solutions to Turkey, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Belgium and for the NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA)’s integration and test centre.
AIR
04 Mar 15. Germany approves Sea Lion helo procurement. Germany has approved the purcha