A Service Level Agreement on “Provision of Ammunition and Missiles” between NSPA and OCCAR-EA, on behalf of the Ministry of National Defence of Lithuania, was signed in a ceremony at NSPA in Luxemburg on Monday 18 December 2017. 

On 15. December 2017 two BOXER Driver Training Vehicles (DTV) have been handed over to the Lithuanian Armed Forces. This is the first big milestone for Lithuania after the contract was signed end of August 2016. 

The 6th Italian FREMM frigate, named Luigi Rizzo, was launched on the 19th of December at the FINCANTIERI integrated shipyard in Riva Trigoso.

The contract for a second batch of BOXER vehicles for Germany was signed on 18 December 2015 at the OCCAR-EA headquarters in Bonn by the original equipment manufacturer ARTEC GmbH and OCCAR.