Fincantieri joins roster of major companies working to protect undersea cables
The group’s collaboration with network provider Sparkle is the latest move to improve the robustness of submarine cable networks.
Rockwell Collins has been selected to supply the US Coast Guard with Automatic Flight Control System (AFCS) control panels for its short range recovery helicopters.
The $3.7 million contract was announced on 6 February.
The company will produce 140 AFCS control panels, which will be fitted on the coast guard's MH-65E helicopters.
The panels are part of a planned initiative to improve the reliability of the AFCS.
Delivery of the panels is planned to begin in July 2017, with about three panels delivered per month.
The group’s collaboration with network provider Sparkle is the latest move to improve the robustness of submarine cable networks.
The investment will help the US move towards its prescribed Arctic requirement.
Sweden’s Baltic coastal defence will be upgraded with new missile options.
The uncrewed surface vessel was secured with a DAPA contract.
The PNS Yamama completes the class of maritime security vessels.
The year ends with several South American navies undergoing ambitious programmes to modernise their fleets. A common denominator is that regional services want domestically manufactured surface vessels and even submarines.