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Israel is Top Global Exporter of Unmanned Aerial Systems
Israeli original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) have aggressively marketed these platforms, helping them become the top exporter of UAS platforms, globally. A recent Frost & Sullivan market insight, “Israeli Unmanned Aerial Systems,” finds that Israel’s UAS export revenue totaled $4.62 billion from 2005 to 2012. The top purchaser of these exports [...]
US DoD C4ISR Spending to Focus on Maintenance of Existing Platforms
The large, multiyear, single prime contract model is yielding to a small, short-term, multivendor model in the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) command and control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR) market. By 2017, spending will focus on maintenance and incremental upgrades to mature technologies. New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, US DoD C4ISR [...]
Where Can A US Contractor Find Future Growth
With the U.S. Government facing significant challenges to the overall budget, tough cuts can be expected to the defense budget – one of the largest areas of discretionary spending. Frost & Sullivan’s latest research looks at the envisioned future defense capabilities and identifies various market opportunities that will appear if those capabilities are fully funded. [...]
Defense Industry Finds New Business Opportunity in Emerging Countries
Under tight budgetary environment global defence industries are experiencing another threat to their growth: unexpected competition arising from rapid innovations in the commercial of the shelf (COTS) technologies. This is more relevant to C4ISR, being a complex web of high-tech sub-systems. As traditional defence markets no longer offer reliable growth opportunities global defence integrators are [...]
Military Air Modernization on the Rise
Despite austerity measures implemented by most Western countries, the military Support in Service (SIS) market seems to be relatively immune from the effects of the economic recession. Among SIS segments, the modernization sector is one of the most stable and promising in terms of revenue growth. According to recent Frost & Sullivan analysis, the military [...]
Global Military Land Vehicles Market Under Transition
The global military land vehicles market is undergoing a transition. Many countries have been forced to curtail their defence spending and as a result, vehicle programs in the West are being delayed or facing reduction in procurement numbers. Even though some notable land vehicle modernization programs are under development and even deployment, the market future [...]
Geospatial Tools and Services Are Modern Warrior’s Weaponry
Participants within the U.S. defense geospatial products market have reached a point in which each has established their particular niche. The transformation into a tools and services market has begun, as companies develop applications that can enhance and integrate vast amounts of information on to geographic canvases. The advent of “big data” (geospatial data so [...]
DoD Budget Cuts Stall New Purchases of Helicopters
Continuing wars and nation building activities in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Yemen have generated significant demand for rotary-winged assets for their diverse mission capabilities. The 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) lists success in counterinsurgency (COIN), stability, and counterterrorism operations as some of the United States’ defense objectives. This can only be achieved by increasing the [...]
DoD Spending Focused on Incremental Upgrades to Time-Tested Technologies
Continuing economic challenges will necessitate cuts in the defense budget till 2017. While there will be reductions in the number of personnel in every military segment, ground forces will experience the most structural changes. Fewer numbers of units denotes lower requirements for equipment, but this reduction is offset by the higher demand for the modernization [...]
