Belgium’s coalition government remains deadlocked over its approach to defence industrial participation and has failed to approve or reject a pending IP proposal. The proposal was put forward last year for the forthcoming F-16 replacement program.
A former commander of the Japanese navy, Admiral Takashi Saito, will head a 40-strong delegation to Australia this month to negotiate roles for local industry should Japan be successful in its bid for a submarine contract. The delegation will include government officials and specialists from Kawasaki and Mitsubishi.
Another manuscript has been published seeking to explain how the European Union, by challenging national defence offsets, brought discord to a formerly exclusive member state competence. The authors say, with indubitable understatement: “Our process-tracing analysis shows that the EU’s recent challenge of defence offsets was a case of supranational self-empowerment.”
The Canadian Department of National Defence has awarded Rheinmetall-Canada and ELTA Systems, an IAI subsidiary, the Medium Range Radar (MRR) program. The deal used the Industrial and Technological Benefits Policy’s Value Proposition to rate and weight bid proposals.
BAE Systems is advancing its re-organisation of the group's portfolio of interests in a number of industrial companies in Saudi Arabia to comply with commitments under the Kingdom’s industrial participation program….. An expansion of the Omani program has also been agreed.