Defense, Risk & Security

London (15 February 2012) – Shortlisted companies for the twelfth annual Jane’s ATC Awards were announced on 15 February 2012 by IHS Jane’s Airport Review. The awards celebrate the improvements to air traffic control over the past 12 months across seven areas important to the future of the industry.

IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), the leading global source of information and analysis, and JANSON Communications, Inc., a leading full service communications strategy and brand positioning firm, have joined forces to better serve the needs of the global aerospace and defense industries with integrated market analysis and enhanced market positioning.

IHS Jane’s has examined images of the wreckage of a helicopter that crashed during the operation, apparently due to an undisclosed technical malfunction, and have concluded that the wreckage does not conform to any helicopter types that are currently known to be in service or in development with the US military.

Economists and industry experts in automotive, energy, risk, security, shipping, and supply chain at IHS (NYSE:IHS), a leading global source of information and analysis, said today the triple disaster in Japan and the ongoing turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa likely would have only a limited impact on the global economy – provided the twin shocks of higher oil prices and the supply chain disruptions from Japan do not get much worse more...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jane’s Intelligence Reviewhas acquired commercially available satel­lite imagery from DigitalGlobe taken over sites in Myanmar reported to be nuclear sites, including two machine tool factories. These images corroborate evidence gathered by the Democratic Voice of Burma from Major Sai Thein Win, a defector from Myanmar, who worked as a deputy director at the two machine tool factories.

Safety at Sea International magazine held its annual award ceremony aboard HMS Belfast on the Thames, London, to recognize those companies that made the biggest contribution to improving maritime safety. The awards were made for advances in equipment, systems, training, management/operations, security and seamanship and presented at the ceremony on 22ndJune 2010.

Jane’s Industry Quarterly, an IHS Jane’s publication, forecasts that mergers & acquisitions activity in the defence industry remained in the doldrums during 2009 as both total volume and values recorded double digit falls.

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Through the use of commercial satellite imagery from DigitalGlobe and GeoEye, IHS Jane’s has revealed that a new launch pad is being constructed at Iran’s Semnan space centre that could ultimately launch Tehran’s next-generation Simorgh rocket.

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LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The United States’ dominance of the global defence sectors is likely to be eroded over the coming decade as both Russia and China encroach on formerly assured markets, according to the latest Jane’s Industry Quarterly study: “Crossing Borders: International Defence Industrial Relationships – a Global Perspective.”

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Robert Munks, Americas editor for Jane’s Intelligence Weekly, commented today that “President Obama’s 7 January criticism of systemic failings within the intelligence community illustrates that the huge task of overhauling an unwieldy, multi-agency security apparatus after 9/11 has not yet been completely achieved.