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The Home Office Centre for Applied Science and Technology (CAST) has made an agreement with Ploughshare Innovations to commercialise their intellectual property. Ploughshare is the UK’s leading defence and security technology transfer company with responsibility for the technology transfer of early stage research and intellectual property from the Ministry of Defence (MOD). This new agreement gives […]

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Babcock has announced that it is to head up a team of leading industry partners in a bid for the Ministry of Defence’s new £1.25 billion Type 31e general purpose light frigate programme. Babcock and Thales will lead partners BMT, Harland & Wolff and Ferguson Marine to form ‘Team 31’. Babcock will take on the […]

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Fliers from RNAS Culdrose in Cornwall played a key role in seizing £105m of hashish after a two-day hunt in the Indian Ocean. The Sea King helicopters spent two days searching hundreds of miles of ocean before they located the suspicious dhow. The helicopter crew guided Australian frigate HMAS Warramunga to the vessel where the ship’s boarding team discovered […]

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The Defence Secretary, Gavin Williamson, has made his first visit to Iraq and took the opportunity to praise UK service personnel as British airstrikes continue to wipe out Daesh. RAF aircraft carried out operations against the terrorist group every day over the Christmas period, striking terrorist compounds, trucks, mortars and pockets of fighters engaged in […]

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BAE Systems have partnered with Cranfield University to boost Britain’s engineering skills through a new postgraduate engineering apprenticeship programme. The programme will see the learners earn a valuable Masters-level qualification, with the first cohort of 76 engineers from BAE Systems will begin the academic element of their level 7 apprenticeship programme this week. Students will […]

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Viasat has been awarded a contract to upgrade the NATO UHF satellite communications (SATCOM) control stations to comply with the Integrated Waveform (IW) baseline. The upgrade gives NATO greater communications interoperability, scalability and flexibility across legacy and next-generation platforms to enhance situational awareness as the battlespace dynamically expands. As part of this award, NATO will […]

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The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) is lending its support to the Maritime, Enterprise, Innovation and Research Conference (MEIR) at the University of Strathclyde. The Maritime, Enterprise, Innovation and Research (MEIR) unit are looking for key technologies that will significantly improve the ability for unmanned/ autonomous systems to operate in the underwater environment, by expanding […]

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Patria has selected Saab to be one of the major suppliers across the Finnish Navy Squadron 2000 Mid-Life Upgrade programme. Patria has the prime role for the total programme, which includes refurbishment and upgrade of four Hamina-class fast attack crafts. In a contract worth around SEK 960 million, the Swedish defence and security company will […]

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BAE Systems has been awarded a contract worth $47.8 million from the US Navy to modernise the guided-missile destroyer USS Howard. The Howard will undergo 15 months of extensive work at the company’s shipyard in San Diego, the ship’s homeport. The depot maintenance period (DMP) availability contract includes options that, if exercised, would bring the […]

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The United States and allied military forces have agreed a $944 million contract with Lockheed Martin for the production and delivery of the company’s Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) and PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (PAC-3 MSE) interceptors to upgrade their missile defence capabilities. The contract includes PAC-3 and PAC-3 MSE interceptors and launcher modification kits for […]

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Raytheon has completed Lot 1 production of the Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) II, a new weapon that will give fighter pilots the ability to destroy moving targets at any time and in all-weather conditions. The SDB II bomb is a gliding precision weapon with a one-of-a-kind tri-mode seeker that uses millimetre wave radar, uncooled imaging […]

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