Defence Blog Posts

The Ministry of Defence has marked mental health awareness week with new confidential support for personnel on operations. The MOD has announced a series of new joint projects with leading mental health charity Samaritans backed by £3.5 million in LIBOR funding. The initiatives will build on the charity’s digital technology to offer military personnel at […]

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The Defence Secretary, Gavin Williamson, has announced an investment of £2.5 billion in the UK’s nuclear submarine programme. The plans will see an Astute hunter-killer submarine built costing £1.5bn, with £960m being spent on completing a fleet of four nuclear-armed Dreadnought submarines to replace the four Vanguard submarines that make up the UK’s nuclear fleet. […]

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Royal Air Force personnel will be primed and ready to crew the very first P-8A Poseidon maritime aircraft once it arrives at RAF Lossiemouth, thanks in part to time spent embedded within the ranks of the US Navy. Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland currently houses Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 1 (VX-1) – […]

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The Defence and Security Accelerator is to hold a collaboration day on Thursday 7 June 2018 to showcase projects successfully funded by the Future Aviation Security Solutions programme and to identify opportunities for future collaboration with other organisations. This event will enable the winning suppliers from the competition to showcase their research proposals to end users, […]

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BAE Systems has been contracted to manufacture more than 7,000 Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS) Laser-Guided Rockets on behalf of the US Navy. The $175 million award falls under the $600 million indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract first announced in 2016, through which APKWS rockets will be delivered to the US Air Force, US Army, […]

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The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) scientists supported the WISE (Women in Science and Engineering) conference, as part of efforts to inspire more girls to choose to study or work in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). In their roles as WISE Co-chair and Executive Sponsor respectively, Phillippa Spencer and Penny Endersby appreared as […]

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Lockheed Martin has agreed a deal with the US Army worth $828 million for the production of Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) rockets and associated equipment. The contract calls for the production of GMLRS Alternative Warhead (AW) rockets, GMLRS Unitary rockets, Reduced-Range Practice Rockets (RRPRs) and integrated logistics support for the US Army as […]

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7-8 JUNE 2018   Radisson Blu Edwardian Heathrow Hotel, 140 Bath Road, Harlington, Hayes UB3 5AW   LOGNET is the Ministry of Defence’s logistics support enterprise engagement and future development event. We want to engage with the logistics and engineering industry, academia, international partners and allies to optimise military logistics and promote UK prosperity; not […]

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The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), through the US Air Force Research Laboratory, has awarded BAE Systems a $13.1 million contract to demonstrate a new, cost-effective optical seeker for precision-guided munitions. The seeker is designed to improve navigation, as well as automate target location and homing, for different types of munitions that are […]

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James Milne, Managing Director of Clip-Lok, examines the important role of logistics in the military and highlights the need to adopt the reusable model.  Modern conflicts are far more fluid and dynamic than the static trenches of WWI. Forces are usually deployed by air or road, equipped to deal with their immediate mission, but only probably self-sufficient with food, ammunition […]

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