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57 Houses & 29 Business Units/8 Flats

Scheme comprises hybrid application тАУ outline planning consent for 65 residential units (24 three bedroom, 10 four bedroom, 4 two bedroom market houses and 1 two bedroom market flat and 5 two bedroom, 10 three bedroom, 1 four bedroom social houses and 4 o

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GB-Gloucester: 25 Flats (New/Extension)

Scheme comprises alterations, part demolition, conversion and two storey extension to existing building (number 53) to provide 7 apartments (one bedroom) and construction of new three storey building comprising 18 apartments (12 two bedroom, 6 one bedroom

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Follow-on testing for LONGBOW fire control radar successful

The LONGBOW Limited Liability Company, a joint venture of Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin, has announced the successful completion of the ArmyтАЩs AH-64E Apache Follow-On Test and Evaluation II (FOT&E II) for the AN/APG-78 LONGBOW Fire Control Radar (FCR). During the FOT&E, the modernised LONGBOW FCR successfully demonstrated many new operational modes and capabilities, including [тАж]

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Saab tests new electronic attack jammer pod

Saab carried out the first flight tests with its new advanced Electronic Attack Jammer Pod (EAJP) with successful results earlier in November. The podтАЩs interfaces with the aircraftтАЩs hardware and software as well as cockpit control and monitoring were tested during the flight. The purpose of SaabтАЩs new EAJP pod is to protect aircraft against [тАж]

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BAE Systems to innovate electronic warfare jamming technology

BAE Systems has been awarded research and development funding through the US Army to create an advanced radar jamming technology. The technology aims to improve air survivability and mission effectiveness for US Army rotary-wing aircraft and unmanned aerial systems (UAS) by detecting and defeating complex and unknown threats in electronic combat. As part of the [тАж]

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Bangladesh selects LeonardoтАЩs high-tech air surveillance radar

The Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) has ordered LeonardoтАЩs KRONOS LAND radar to provide air surveillance, allowing operators to detect and track targets in tactical environments. Leonardo made the announcement at BIDEC (Bahrain International Defence Exhibition and Conference) tri-service exhibition, which is took place last week at Manama (Baharain). Leonardo will also supply communications equipment, twelve [тАж]

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Plextek wins DASA contracts to defend against hostile drones

Plextek-DTS (Defence Technology Solutions) has been awarded two contracts under the ┬г2 million Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) competition to develop new capabilities to detect, disrupt, and defeat the hostile and malicious use of drones. The first project focuses on the development of an innovative signal detection and jamming capability to detect and defeat hostile [тАж]

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Airbus and QinetiQ confirmed as prime contractor partners for DPRTE 2020

Airbus and QinetiQ have been confirmed to appear at Defence Procurement, Research, Technology & Exportability (DPRTE) 2020 taking place at Farnborough International Exhibition Centre on 1 April. Airbus and QinetiQ will take their place at the Prime Contractor and Supply Chain Pavilion as the event confirmed them as prime contractor partners. As outlined within the [тАж]

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Labour Party targeted by cyber attack on its digital platforms

The Labour Party has confirmed that it has been the subject of a cyber attack against its digital platforms. The attack, which took place on Monday, has been reported to the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) but has not managed breach any of LabourтАЩs data due to its тАЬrobustтАЭ security system, the party has said. [тАж]

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Northrop Grumman takes part in DARPA Swarm Test

Northrop Grumman has demonstrated progress towards successful heterogeneous unmanned vehicle (UxV) swarming with the test of Rapid Integration Swarm Ecosystem (RISE) at the Defense Advanced Research Project AgencyтАЩs (DARPA) second field experiment. The experiment leveraged the command, control and collaboration capabilities of RISE in a mock city environment at Fort Benning, Georgia, with dozens of [тАж]

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Defence Estates bolster construction pipeline

According to Glenigan Construction Data, defence estate construction has been beneficial to the construction sector as a whole in a period of stagnation resulting from political uncertainty. In particular, this data specifies that of the Ministry of DefenceтАЩs ┬г38.1Bn worth of spending in the 2018/19 year ┬г4.26Bn was actually spent upon defence infrastructure, ultimately resulting [тАж]

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Immersive Labs raises $40m to accelerate expansion of cyber skills platform

Bristol-based cyber security training platform, Immersive Labs, has closed $40 million in funding led by global growth equity investor Summit Partners, with participation from existing investor Goldman Sachs. The investment will be used to support expansion initiatives in North America, where customer demand highlights a clear need to optimise cyber skills and guard against constantly [тАж]

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United Kingdom-Salford: Cyber Security Services

NHS Shared Business Services has been working closely with NHS Digital on the development of the cyber security services framework agreement, to offer an additional solution to support the existing portfolio of security solutions currently available. The

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Production starts on world-leading respirators for UK armed forces

Wiltshire-based Avon Protection Ltd will manufacture and supply the potentially life-saving respirators over the remaining period of the five-year contract, having completed 18 months of successful tests and trials. The ┬г16 million contract has created 22 new jobs at Avon Protection тАУ three management and 19 shop-floor production тАУ as well as helping to sustain [тАж]

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