Indonesia is to receive 15 Bushmaster Protected Mobility Vehicles (PMV) from Australia. The vehicles will serve overseas as part of the country’s U.N peacekeeping commitments. Prabowo Subianto, the Indonesian Minister of… Continue reading "Australia to Donate 15 Bushmaster PMVs to Indonesia"
The European Union’s foreign policy head, Josep Borrell, says that he plans to propose the formation of a 50,000-strong EU expeditionary force, tasked with providing an independent European response in… Continue reading "EU Foreign Policy Head To Propose Formation Of European Expeditionary Force"
The live fire tests of the first battery of the Iron Dome Defense System (IDDS-A) that the United States purchased from Israel were completed by the Israel Missile Defense Organization… Continue reading "US Army Tests Israeli Iron Dome System for the First Time"
With the lightning advance of Taliban forces across Afghanistan and onto Kabul, world attention has turned to the chaos in the Afghan capital. Images of American helicopters lifting off evacuees… Continue reading "World Scrambles to Evacuate Kabul"
The United States Army is procuring new next-generation cryptographic key load devices as part of an effort to combat rising cyber-attacks. The Next Generation Load Device-Medium (NGLD-M) is a proposed… Continue reading "United States Army Picks SNC And General Dynamics for Next-Gen Crypto Key Loader Contracts"
A growing concern in the medical field has been the rise of “superbugs”, or infectious microbes capable of withstanding many common antibiotics. Through the process of evolution, resistance to antibiotics… Continue reading "DARPA Project to Counter Superbugs Moves Forward"
Welcome to another Weekend Briefing, where we round-up the week’s most important defense news and some of the stories that may have flown under the radar. This week at Overt… Continue reading "Weekend Briefing (2-6 August)"
Welcome to another Weekend Briefing, where we round-up the week’s most important defense news and some of the stories that may have flown under the radar. This week at Overt Defense… Continue reading "Weekend Briefing (26 – 30 July)"
The Department of Defence announced today that it had cancelled solicitations for the $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) Cloud, and has “initiated contract termination procedures”. Alongside the cancellation… Continue reading "Pentagon Axes JEDI Contract, To Recompete Cloud Efforts"
The press service of Ukraine’s Joint Forces Operation states that as of 5PM local time on Tuesday, there have been no ceasefire violations along the Line of Contact in the… Continue reading "Ceasefire In The Donbass Holds Following Deadly Violations"