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• Germany enters the cyberwar

• Defence

• Technology

• Industry & Trade

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During last weeks AFCEA, the biggest trade showonmilitaryinformation-andcommuni-cationtechnologyinGermany,ColonelArminFleischmann, head of the planning depart-ment in the cyber command, described the futurecapabilitiesthisnewlyformedmilitarybranch will add to the Bundeswehr.Background for founding this new military branch had been the impact the cyber do-mainhasnowadaysonpopulation,economy,politicsandarmedforces.Takingthis impactanynationneedstobeabletodefenditscy-berspace,Fleischmannsaid.Butdefiningthecyberdomainisstillachallenge,thatmostna-tionsanswerindifferentways.Therehasbeenproof, for example, that the Kremlin employs about 800 people whose sole purpose is, to feed social media with “informations” and“facts”ortocanalizediscussioninafavorableway.Thisrulesupremeoversocialmediaandthediscussions in them might also be seen as a kind of cyberwar, since spreading false facts or tryingtomisinformor“guide”thepopulationin enemy countries, has been common prac-tiseinmostwarsofthepast.Another threat derives from the fact, thatmostmilitaries do not have a real policy onusing new or private technologies and so-metimes forget, that they are not in controlofprivateownedmarketplaces.Fleischmannnamed the example of an app the Ukraine mi-litarymadefortheiramrouredhowitzer.Thisapp had been really well done, adding new valuetothemilitaryworkandmakingitmuchmore easier for the soldiers, Fleischmann said. But the problem was, that it had been published and spread over the Google PlayStoreandsomehackershaveexchangeditaf-

teraquiteshorttimeintoaslightlydifferentversion.Thatversionworkedfine,justliketheoriginalone,sothesoldierscouldnotrealizetheirversionwasdifferentfromtheother,tilltheclashwithRussia.Adding to these challenges Fleischmann na-med another problem that he called Davidversus Goliath. Small countries and armiescould – by using the cyberdomain in a per-fectandsophisticatedway–turnthemilitarybalance of power upside down. Modern ar-mies that want to keep and control their own forces in any conflict need to addressall these new circumstances and challenges. And even though a strong national industryis just as vital for ruling the cyber domain,Armed Forces need their own personnel and knowledgetosecuretheirpopulationandna-tioninthecyberspace.The new cyber branch in the German Armed Forceswill starton July1,2017,withastaffof13,500 thatmovesover from theexistingmilitary branches. The commanding element – KdoCIR – started on April 5, 2017 with astaffof 260butwill grow to700 to 800be- tween2021and2023.FirstChiefofStaffCIR (http://cir.bundeswehr.de) is LtGen Ludwig Leinhos (Air Force). Dorothee Frank

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Cooperation between NATOand EU

(df) Addressing the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee and Sub-Com-mitteeonSecurityandDefenceonMay3NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg welcomedclosercooperationbetweentheEuropean Union and the Alliance. He stres-sedthat“cooperationisnowthenorm,notthe exception,” and noted that a strongEuropean defence contributes to fair bur-den-sharing.“We agreed in December on 42 concrete measures on how to strengthen NATO-EU cooperation,” Stoltenberg said on theachievements. “Andweare strengthening

the cooperation based on the fact that –of course – not all EU members are mem-bers of NATO and not all NATO members aremembersoftheEuropeanUnion.”Re-spectingthedifferencesbetweenthetwoorganisations need to be practised whilekeeping in mind, that all member states of bothorganisationshavealottogainfromworking close together. This close coope-rationbetweenforcesofNATOandEUhasbecomemorepractical in the recentpastthaneverbefore.“Weknowthat90%ofthepeoplelivinginanEUcountryarelivinginaNATOcountry,”Stoltenberg said. “We share the same secu-rityenvironmentsandwesharethesame

instability to dissolve.” Thementioned42measures are mainly in the areas of cyber defence, responding to hybrid threats, operationsandexercises.“Thegoodnewsis, that we are really making progress,” Stoltenberg said. “Wehave lifted theNA-TO-EU-cooperationtoanewlevel.www.nato.int

Jorge Domecq extended as EDA Chief Executive

Following a proposal by Federica Moghe-rini,theEUHighRepresentativeforForeignAffairs and Security Policy, Vice-Presidentof the European Commission, as Head of the European Defence Agency, EDA Mem-ber States have decided unanimously toextend the initial three year mandate ofJorge Domecq as Chief Executive of theAgency foranadditional twoyears,up toFebruary 1, 2020. Domecq leads the EDA since February 2015.Hisprolongationcomesata crucialtimeforEUdefenceingeneral,andforthe

EuropeanDefenceAgencyinparticular.AstheAgencyiscruciallyinvolvedintheprac-tical implementationofall recentEurope-andefenceinitiatives–fromtheEUGlobalStrategy and its Implementation Plan totheEuropeanDefenceActionPlan(EDAP)and the implementation of the EU-NATOJointDeclaration–Domecq’sextensionwillprovide the necessary continuity in EDA’s

top team to make sure the agency can play its role to the full, EDA announced.The implementation of the EDA’s LongTermReview,whichwas set inmotionbythe Head of the Agency last autumn and that Ministers will consider at the May 18 Steering Board and the upcoming launch of the European Commission’s Preparato-ryActiononDefenceResearch (PADR), inwhich the EDA will play a central managing role through the signing of a delegationagreement with the Commission, are two additional challenges lying ahead of theAgencyanditsChiefExecutive.www.eda.europa.eu

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Defence Energy Managers Course

On 24 April, EDA welcomed 20 students from nine Member States to the opening sessionofa16-monthcourseaimedspeci-ficallyatreducingtheenergyusagewithinmilitary installations. The “Defence Ener-gy Managers Course” (DEMC) is the firstof itskind tobe runat themulti-nationallevelandwilldeliverboththeoreticalandpracticalenergymanagementsystemtrai-ning to facilitymanagers fromthenavies,armies and air forces of Europe.

Beginning with a 5-day classroom session covering the fundamentalsof energyma-nagement, the students will receive pro-ject specific mentoring to deliver energysavingswithintheirownnationalsitesandwill benefit from one-on-one instructionfrom market leading experts.Thecourseissplitinto5distinctmodules(3classroomandtwopractical)andisbasedon the ISO 50001 standard but with speci-ficapplicabilitytothedefencesector.Thecourse marks another important milestone

in EDA’s approach to sustainability in de-fence and runs in parallel with the Consul-tationForumforSustainableEnergyintheDefence and Security Sector sponsored by the European Commission and EDA’s own EnergyandEnvironmentalWorkingGroup,which looks to mainstream sustainability concepts within the military as enablers for improvedmilitarycapabilityandtoreducethenegativeenvironmental effects ofmi-litaryoperations.www.eda.europa.eu

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Bulgaria tests PIRANHA IFV

(df)ThePIRANHAInfantryFightingVehicle(IFV),amemberofthePIRANHAfamilyofvehicles,wasofficiallypresentedinBulga-ria. The vehicle demonstration eventwashostedbytheMilitaryUnitTylbetoinKaz-anlak with a broad military audience, state officialsandauthoritiesand local industryin attendance. ThePIRANHA IFV is a can-didate for the Bulgarian Army’s BattalionBattleGroupacquisitionproject.Together with its partners, General Dyna-micsMissionSystemsandRafaelAdvancedDefense Systems, General Dynamics Eu-

ropean Land Systems successfully conduc-ted the three-day vehicle demonstrationand live firing event with a PIRANHA IFVequipped with a 30mm NATO-compliant remotecontrolledweaponstation,anan-ti-tank guided missile system and a fullyintegrated communication informationsystem. “General Dynamics European Land Systems ishonouredtohavetheopportunitytopre-sentthefullrangeofthePIRANHAsystemcapabilitiestotheBulgarianArmy,”saidDr.Thomas Kauffmann, Vice President of In-ternationalBusiness&ServicesofGeneral

Dynamics European Land Systems. “With ourproven technologyandadvancedsys-tem capabilities, we are confident in ourabilitytoprovidetheBulgarianArmywithacompliantsolution.”www.gdels.com

Turkish Armoured Amphibious Assault Vehicle Project

(df) The Undersecretariat for Defence In-dustries (SSM) has awarded the contract for theArmouredAmphibiousAssaultVehicle(ZAHA) project to FNSS. This programmewasinitiatedbySSMtomeettheamphib-iousarmouredvehiclerequirementoftheTurkishNavalForcesCommand.Underthecontractthevehicleswillbedevelopedandproduced by FNSS based on an indigenous developmentmodel.FNSSwilldeliver27vehicles:23personnelcarriers, two command and control vehi-clesandtworecoveryvehicles.Thetechni-calcharacteristicsoftheArmouredAmphi-bious Assault Vehicles were determinedby taking into consideration the opera-tional concept and mission requirementsdefinedby theTurkishNavalForcesCom- mand.“Following theAnti-TankVehicles Project,the ZAHA contract is the second contract

wehavesignedwithSSMinthepastyear.Then there is also the KORKUT contractwe have signed with ASELSAN”, said NailKurt, General Manager and CEO of FNSS. “FNSS vehicles currently in the inventoryof the Turkish Armed Forces, which inclu-detheArmouredCombatVehicles(ACVs),theSAMURArmouredAmphibiousAssaultBridge and the KUNDUZ Amphibious Ar-

moured Combat Earthmover, are perfor-ming theirdutiesadmirably.Vehicles thatwillentertheinventoryinthecomingpe-riodincludetheACV-30,whichwillbeusedintheKORKUTproject;theKAPLAN-15andPARS 4x4, which will be used in the An-ti-TankVehiclesproject;andtheArmouredAmphibiousAssaultVehicle.”www.fnss.com.tr

Polish shipyard will build new Swedish SIGINT vessel

(df) Saab has selected the Polish Nauta Shiprepair Yard based in Gdynia, a part of the Polish Armaments Group (PGZ), to buildtheshipplatformforthespecialpur-

poseSignalIntelligence(SIGINT)vesselfortheSwedishNavy.OnApril11,2017Saabcommunicated that the company and the Swedish Defence Material Administration(FMV)signedacontractfordesign,const-ructionanddeliveryof this SIGINT-vessel,

thatwillbeprimarilyusedforinterceptionand analyze of radio transmitted signals.Theorder covers theperiod2017 -2020,withatotalvalueofSEK730million(€75.8million).www.saabgroup.com

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U.S. Army contracts NextGeneration Combat Helmet

(df) The U.S. Army has awarded the con-tractonAdvancedCombatHelmetGene-rationII(ACHGENII)toRevisionMilitary.The last contract by the US Army in 2012 hadalsobeenfulfilledsuccessfullybythecompany in delivering a total of 180,000ACHhelmets.Inthisnextgenerationcom-bat helmets Revision said their scientists

wereabletoexceedtheweightreductionrequirements stipulated in the Army’ssolicitation by a sizeable margin: the so-licitationrequiredaminimum15%weight

reduction, with Revision’s solutions forACH-GEN II providing up to 24% weightreduction over the legacy ACH design,pushingtheenvelopeofattainableweightreductionwhilemaintainingverygoodbal-listicprotection.In totalRevisionhasdelivered1.1millionhelmetstotheU.S.military,andanadditio-nal300,000helmetsinternationally.www.revisionmilitary.com

New features of the STAMP-2

(df) The Turkish company ASELSAN an-nounced that its new product STAMP-2 is ready fordutynow.The improvementsrealized with STAMP-2 are focused onthe compact and light design combined with advanced fea-tures such as trai-ning simulator, an advanced graphi-cal user interface and a High Accu-racy Stabilized Gim-

bal (HASG).Moreover, the elevationmo-vementrangehasbeenincreased.The display of STAMP-2 is now 19 inches, a large screen on which day TV cameraand thermal camera images both can be displayed, which is an advantage for thegunner. A High Accuracy Stabilized Gim-

bal (HASG) which can rotate in elevationandazimuthaxesrela-

tive to turret is integrated to STAMP-2.HASG gives the gunner independentsurveillancecapabilityand increases the

engagement capability at long distances.

ByintegratingtheoptionalAmmunitionlo-adingsystem,STAMP-2maximizestheper-sonnel security during ammunition load.STAMP-2 additionally provides theoppor-tunity to integrate 12.7mmNSVmachinegun,awidelyusedguninseveralarmies.STAMP-2 is, like its predecessor STAMP, equippedwithadvanced features suchasautomatic target detection and tracking,high stabilization performance and auto-maticballisticcorrectionandachieveshighhit performance.www.aselsan.com.tr

New missiles for the British Army and Royal Navy

(df) The British Armed Forces have awar-ded a £323 million deal for the next batch of next-generation Common Anti-air Mo-dular Missile (CAMM). This missile is desig-ned for use both at sea and on land. It has the capability to defend against anti-shipcruisemissiles,aircraftandotherhighlyso-phisticatedthreats.Designed and manufactured by MBDA in the UK, CAMM will be deployed using the Sea Ceptor and Land Ceptor weapon systems that will protect the Royal Na-vy’sType23andfutureType26warships,as well as enhancing the British Army’s

Ground Based Air Defence system. Sea Ceptor and Land Ceptor use radar and da-talink technology to guide the CAMM with high accuracy.CAMM’s associated radar system tracks themaritimeorlandbasedthreatandusesthe datalink to update the missile with the location of the threat. The CAMM’s ownactiveradarseekercanthentakeoverthemissile guidance. The missiles are designed to provide 360degree coverage andhighdegreesofmanoeuvrability.The Sea Ceptor weapon system incor-poratingCAMMwill replace theSeaWolfweapon system on the Type 23 Frigate andprovidetheanti-airdefencecapability

onthenewType26frigatesfortheRoyalNavy. Similarly, the Land Ceptor weaponsystemwillreplacetheRapierweaponsys-tem in servicewith the British Army andcontribute technology to the replacement of ASRAAM in service with the Royal AirForce.www.mbda-systems.com

Cybersecurity Centre in Ukraine

(df) The Ukrainian company Ukroboron-prom – together with the Turkish company Havelsan andexperts of the Igor SikorskyKiev Polytechnic Institute – creates a Cy-

bersecurity Centre in Ukraine. A team of “white” hackers DCUA, that topped the worldrankingsinthefieldofcybersecuritylast year,will provideadvisoryassistance.“A key purpose is to unite specialists of

thehighestlevelforthecreationofsuper-center for cybersecurity. We are ready to cooperate and are open to constructiveproposals,”companyrepresentativessaid.http://ukroboronprom.com.ua/en/

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Delivery of the 500th Eurofighter

(df)AceremonyheldatLeonardoAircraftDivision’sTurinsitemarkedthedeliveryofthe 500th Eurofighter Typhoon. LtGenGa-briele Salvestroni, Logistic Commander ofthe Italian Air Force, took delivery of theaircraftinthepresenceofFilippoBagnato,Leonardo Aircraft Division’sManaging Di-rector,VolkerPaltzo,ChiefExecutiveOfficerofEurofighterJagdflugzeug,PeterSchmidt,Deputy General Manager of NETMA, and representativesfromtheEurofighterpart-nernationsandpartnercompanies.The very first Eurofighter was deliveredto the British Royal Air Force at the end

of 2003. The 100th Eurofighter was alsodelivered to theBritishRoyalAir Force inSeptember 2006. The 200th aircraft washanded over to the German Air Force inNovember2009.The300thaircraftwasde-liveredtotheSpanishAirForceinOctober2011, and the 400th to the German Air Force in December 2013.“The500strongEurofighterTyphoonfleetrepresents one of the largest and most capable fighter fleets in the western he-misphere, and will be the backbone of European airpower for decades to come,” said Volker Paltzo, Chief ExecutiveOfficerof Eurofighter Jagdflugzeug GmbH, said.

“Today’shandoverisagreattestamenttotheprogramme’s success,and Ifirmlyex-pect to see the fleet grow further as ourpartner companies continue to pursueopportunities for more orders internatio-nally.”www.eurofighter.comwww.leonardocompany.com

Two milestones for the Meteor

(df)TheMeteormissileachievedtwoma-jor milestones in the last weeks. First aEurofighterTyphoonhassuccessfullycom-pletedasimultaneousfiringoftwoMBDAMeteorBeyondVisualRangeair-to-airmis-silesaspartofamajorprogrammeofworktointegratetheweaponontotheaircraft.The test was conducted using Airbus De-fence & Space Instrumented ProductionAircraft (IPA) 4 with the support of BAESystems, Eurofighter GmbH, MBDA andthe UK‘s Ministry of Defence. The trial was used to test successful engagement of tar-gets and a simultaneous two-way data link betweentwomissilesandtheaircraft.Thesecondmajormilestoneisthecontract,theBritishMoDhasawardedtoMBDAforthe integrationof theMeteor BeyondVi-sual Range on the new F-35 stealth figh-ters. The contract includes the mixture of test assets, production and engineeringwork needed to support Meteor’s compa-tibilityandusefromF-35. It isplannedtoarmtheBritishF-35LightningIIforcewithMeteor missiles in the 2020s. The test as-sets being contracted encompass the usual suiteoftestmissilesrequiredforanaircraftintegration programme. Contract scopealso includes the role change kits for the UK’s common Meteor stockpile for both Typhoon and Lightning.www.mbda-systems.com

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Next ASTUTE class submarineunder contract

(df) BAE Systems has been awarded a £1.4 billion contract by the UK’s Minist-ry ofDefence to deliver thenextASTUTEclass submarine, which name will be HMS AGAMEMNON,totheRoyalNavy.“ThislatestinvestmentmeanswearewellonourwaytocompletingourfleetofAS-TUTE submarines. These are the most advanced submarines ever operated bytheRoyalNavy and are alreadyproviding

unprecedentedlevelsofstealthandattackcapability across the world,” said Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon. “Backed by a rising defence budget and a £178 billion

equipment plan, Barrow will remain the hub of our submarine build programmes providing high skilled jobs for years tocome.”The first three ASTUTE class submarinesHMSASTUTE,HMSAMBUSHandHMSAR-TFULarecurrentlyinservicewiththeRoyalNavy.HMSAGAMEMNONwillbethesixthof seven nuclear-powered attack subma-rines, of the planned ASTUTE submarine fleet.www.baesystems.com

Raytheon starts production of new air and missile defence radar

(df)TheU.S.Navyawards$327milliontoRaytheonforstartingtheAN/SPY-6(V)rad-arproductionforthefirstthreeshipsets.TheAirandMissileDefenceRadar(AMDR)–AN/SPY-6(V)–istheNavy’snextgenera-tionintegratedairandmissiledefencerad-ar. According to Raytheon it is advancingthroughdevelopmentandontrackfortheDDG-51 Flight III destroyer. AMDR provi-des greater detection ranges, increaseddiscrimination accuracy, higher reliabilityand sustainability, and lower total owners-hipcostaswellasotheradvantageswhencompared to the current AN/SPY-1D(V)radar onboard today’s destroyers. Thesystemisbuiltwithindividual“buildingblocks” calledRadarModularAssemblies.Each RMA is a self-contained radar in a

2’x2’x2’box.These individual radarRMAscanstacktogethertoformanysizearraytofitthemissionrequirements.The inherent scalability could allow for newinstantiations,suchasback-fitonexis-tingDDG51destroyersandinstallationonaircraftcarriers,amphibiouswarfareships,frigates, Littoral Combat Ship and DDG1000classes,withoutsignificantnewradardevelopmentcosts.“ProgressingtoproductionistheresultofalotofhardworkanddedicationfromourAMDR team of experts across Raytheon,the Navy, and our world-class suppliers.In just over three years of the Enginee-ring, Manufacturing and Developmentphase,we’vegone froma technologyde-monstrator to a technically mature, highly advanced, functioning radar,” said TadDickenson, Raytheon’s Director of the Air

and Missile Defence Radar Programme.“Productionbeginstoday-whichbringsusone day closer to delivering this needed,and unprecedented, integrated air and missiledefencecapabilitytotheNavy.”www.raytheon.com

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Next FREMMs to be delivered

(df)GE’sMarineSolutionsreportsthattheFREMMmulti-mission frigate AUVERGNE,thatwas recentlydelivered to theFrenchNavy, features the samepower denseGELM2500+G4 gas turbine in a COmbined Diesel eLectric Or Gas turbine (CODLOG) propulsion system like all of the French Na-vy’snewAQUITAINEclassFREMMs.AUVERGNE is thesixthship tobedeliver-ed out of the 10-ship FREMM program-me (four ships have now been deliveredto theFrenchNavy,andoneeach for theEgyptian and Moroccan Navies). For the

four remaining French ships, DCNS is cur-rently completing theFREMM BRETAGNE,which was floated inSeptember 2016, andis pursuing assembly of frigate NORMAN-DIE. DCNS has started on the ALSACE, which will be one of the two FREMMswithstrengt-hened anti-aircraftcapacities; deliveries

are scheduled before 2022.GE’s LM2500 gas turbine family includes the base LM2500 model (25 mega-watts),LM2500+(30me-gawatts)andLM2500+G4(35 megawatts). Theseengines can be applied inavarietyofpropulsionconfigurations so navalarchitects have designflexibility.http://ge.com/marine

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Thales acquires Guavus

(df) Thales announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire the U.S.company Guavus, one of the pioneers inreal-time Big Data analytics. Founded in2006,Guavushasfocusedonthetelecom-munication and cable network operators’market, and analyses more than 5 petaby-tes –equal to 5,000 terabytes – of data for itscustomerseverysingleday.Thisrepre-sentstheequivalentofanalysingaround3millionfeaturefilmseverydayor500timestheentireprintcollectionsoftheU.S.Libr-ary of Congress.Guavussupportsmorethan20majorope-rators around the world, including the 5 largest North-American mobile operators (AT&T, Rogers, Sprint, T-Mobile and Ver-

izon),4outof the top5 internetbackbo-ne carriers, and 7 out of the top 8 cable operators. Headquartered in San Mateo, California, in Silicon Valley, the companyemploys 250 people, of which 50 are based in Montreal (Canada) and 140 in Gurgaon (India).The acquisition of Guavus follows severalacquisitions in the fields of connectivity,mobility and cyber security, and strengt-hensThales’spositioninginoneofthekeytechnologies at the heart of digital trans-formation, the processing and predictiveanalysis of “big data”, an increasingly cri-tical factor in real-time decision-making.Since airlines, satellite, air traffic control,metro or train operators, armed forces or security officials of large urban or energy

infrastructures rely on real time analysisand decisions with a broad spectrum of connected sensors, Guavus’s acquisitionopens broad opportunities for Thales inareas including predictive maintenance,cybersecurity,monitoringofcriticalinfras-tructures,networkandtelecommunicationsystemsoptimization.www.thalesgroup.com

Industry & Trade

Rostec increases revenues

(df) Rostec’s CEO Sergey Chemezov re-ported to Russian President VladimirPutin on the state corporation’s perfor-mance in 2016, announcing plans for thedevelopment of high-tech industries,presenting the results of the industrialdigitizationandreflectingonpersonnelch-

anges that occurred at the state corpora- tion.In2016,Rostec’sconsolidatedrevenuesin-creasedby11% from2015,amounting toRUB1,266billion(€20.3billion).Consolida-tednetincomeequaledRUB88billion,andthe EBITDA was RUB268 billion. In 2016,the Corporation average wage increased

from RUB41,000 in 2015 to RUB44,000,while average wage in Russia was RUB36,600. In 2016, the total volume of in-vestments amounted to RUB 142 billion.The total amount of social expenses for Rostec’s employees exceeded RUB 7,700million.www.rostec.ru

Teaming for the MjölnerMortar Programme

(df)BAESystems teamswithCzechRepu-blic’s Ray Service to support the SwedishMjölnerMortarProgramme.Thecompanyannounced that it was awarded a contract by the Swedish Defence Material Administ-rationinDecember2016forthedeliveryof40 of the mortar systems and has now en-listedRayServicetodevelopandproducecabling assemblies.“The agreement with Ray Service de-monstrates our commitment to deliver a

world-class CV90 offering through closecooperationwithCzechindustryinordertomeet theCzechArmy’s IFV requirement,”said Peter Nygren, director of business development at BAE Systems Hägglunds.“The design and production of the cableharnesses for the 40 mortar systems is a strong foundationforworkingtogether inthe future. This collaborative effort ensu-res a role for local industry to produce oneofthecriticalsubsystemsinthevehi- cle.” The arrangement further streng-thens BAE Systems’ commitment to work

with Czech companies as it supports thegovernment’s effort to replace the legacyfleet of BMP-2 Infantry Fighting Vehicles (IFVs).In2016BAESystemsteamedupwithVOPCZ, a leading Czech defense company, tooffertheCV90IFVasthereplacementvehi-cle, and subsequently contracted with that company to produce components for the BvS10all-terrainvehicle,alsoproducedbyBAE Systems.www.baesystems.comwww.rayservice.com

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