The US Navy awarded AAR Government Services a $114.5 million modification external link to provide P-8A Poseidon aircraft depot scheduled and unscheduled maintenance, depot in-service repair/planner and estimator requirements, technical directive incorporation, airframe modifications, aircraft on ground support, and engine removal and replacement in support of the Navy, the Australian government, and Foreign Military Sales customers. The work will be done in Indianapolis, Indiana, and is scheduled to be finished in October 2023.
L3Harris has incorporated new sophisticated battlefield awareness technologies through external link onto Rheinmetall’s Lynx Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle (OMFV), improving its lethality. The digitally developed technologies allow the next-generation armored fighting vehicle to “identify and combat battlefield threats faster and at longer distances while lowering the number of crew members required.”
Middle East & Africa
DSIT Solutions Ltd., an Israeli developer, manufacturer and supplier of high-end, comprehensive and integrated protection solutions against all underwater threat types, will showcase its multilayered defense solution for securing strategic assets against the various types of underwater threats in diverse ranges and sea depths at EURONAVAL 2022, set to take place in Paris next week. These solutions include, among others, hostile military, terror and illegal activities, intrusion, sabotage and smuggling by divers, Semi-Submersible Vehicles (SSVs), Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs), Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) and all submarine types.
Europe
A private company has successfully bid for a Swiss government PC-24 business jet. The aircraft, registration T-786, was delivered to the Swiss government in February 2019. The Swiss Federal Office for Defense Procurement (armasuisse) says the bid received was higher than the cost of purchasing the jet.
Canada on Tuesday said it would soon send combat engineers to NATO ally Poland to help train Ukrainian forces who have been battling a Russian invasion for more than seven months. “In the coming weeks, Canada will deploy approximately 40 combat engineers to Poland to help Polish forces train Ukrainian sappers on engineer reconnaissance, explosives, mining and demining,” Canadian Defense Minister Anita Anand said in Warsaw alongside her Polish counterpart.
Asia-Pacific
Malaysia’s Senior Defense Minister Hishammuddin Hussein revealed 
on October 9 that the government has opted for two of Leonardo’s ATR 72MP maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) and three medium-altitude long endurance unmanned aircraft systems (MALE UAS) from Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) to meet Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) requirements. “The government has agreed with Leonardo’s offer and has decided to issue a contract to [TAI] for the acquisition of three [MALE UAS],” said the minister, noting the Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) is in the midst of issuing notices of acceptance once final negotiations have been completed.
