Seven years have passed since a surge of popular uprisings, which subsequently became known in the West as the Arab Spring, started sweeping the Arab world. 

The Pentagon’s 2019 budget will include the upgrading of 261 M1A2 Abrams SEP V2 main battle tanks (MBTs), which will be fitted with Rafael's Trophy Active Protection Systems (APS) to neutralize anti-tank missiles, Army Recognition reports.

Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, has completed qualification to military standards of a comprehensive weapons system for S-70M / S-70i Black Hawk helicopters. Fully integrated with the aircraft's existing avionics, the system allows either pilot to place munitions quickly from forward firing guns, rocket pods, and laser-designated air-to-ground missile launchers onto static or moving targets with high accuracy.

A shooting investigation is underway at the National Security Agency (NSA) at Fort Meade, Maryland, NBC Washington reported.

"Anne Arundel County police tweeted just before 7:30 a.m. referencing the 'possible shooting near NSA.'

Artificial Intelligence (AI) uses methods, algorithms, and systems that imitate the way humans think – to enhance our ability to carry out complex tasks. Some of the fundamental challenges of AI include learning, knowledge modeling, and reasoning. These solutions draw on concepts from computer science, statistics, and linguistics, among others, and embrace techniques for machine learning (ML), natural language processing, problem-solving, and automated inference.

The 2S35 Koalitsia-SV self-propelled artillery gun is scheduled to complete acceptance trials in 2020, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Yuri Borisov said. "We contracted 12 Koalitsia-SV and they will be test operated in the troops up to 2020. We shall complete acceptance trials that year and will decide on serial procurement," he said.

Following the events of last Saturday, the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (ITIC) is assessing that Iran is not interested in a direct confrontation with Israel at this point.

The Jordanian Armed Forces, together with Defense IQ, will hold a conference focusing on technologies and methods to deal with the drone threat, the IT Briefing website reported.

Sky Sabre air defense missile system was recently unveiled by the British Army. The system has three principal components: the MBDA launcher that fires the CAMM missile, the Saab radar targeting system (named the giraffe), and the Rafael control electronics suite from which the system is operated. Sky Sabre is expected to become operational in 2020.

Sergey Chemezov, CEO of the Russian Rostec Corporation, says Moscow is ready to sell S-400 air defense systems to any nation, including the United States.