STOCKHOLM, Sweden, March 30 (UPI) — The Australian Ministry of Defense has contracted Saab to supply communication technologies for the Royal Navy’s Anzac- and Canberra-class ships.

LONDON, March 30 (UPI) — The British Ministry of Defense announced a milestone for an attack-submarine program with the recent laying of the Audacious Astute-class submarine’s keel.

RA’ANANA, Israel, March 30 (UPI) — Israel-based Nice Systems has launched its new mobile, digital video-surveillance technology in a move to expand the company’s security-solutions portfolio.

WALL, N.J., March 30 (UPI) — The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts has contracted BIO-key International Inc. for the company’s biometric identity-management technologies.

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 30 (UPI) — Secure information-sharing technologies developer Spyrus said its universal serial bus encryption drives have been approved by the U.S. Defense Department.

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 30 (UPI) — The U.S. Defense Department has certified that a network time-server technology from Symmetricom Inc. has met global positioning system security requirements.