Two weeks before the presidential elections in Russia, Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin announced an increase in defence spending.
On January 30th 2012, the SDA hosted a high-level policymakers' dinner about public-private cooperation in cyber-security.
The SDA hosted an evening-debate on "Improving global cyber-governance", where the groundbreaking cyber-report "Cyber-security: The vexed question of global rules" was launched.
India and Saudi Arabia have decided to set up a joint committee on defence cooperation, as announced on the sidelines of the visit of a high-level delegation of Indian defence policy-makers, led by Defence Minister A.K. Antony, to Riyadh on Tuesday.
In the scope of its Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) system, NATO will purchase five US-built Global Hawk drones from Northrop Grumman.
Defence Minister Giampaolo Di Paola announced today to a joint defence committee of both houses of Parliament that Italy will reduce its order of F-35 by one-third as part of defence spending cuts.
A hacker, going by the name of YamaTough, has hacked antivirus firm Symantec and released the source code for the company’s pcAnywhere utility.
SDA Director Giles Merritt commented on the implications of the recent US defence strategy for Europe in the Voice of America.
On January 30th 2012, the SDA hosted two events in the framework of its cyber initiative and launched its cyber-study “Cyber-security: The vexed question of global rules”.
NATO has decided to extend its air policing mission over the Baltic states until 2018.