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Lockheed Martin is investing $142 million in its Camden facility in Arkansas and adding 326 new jobs by 2024. Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson joined Lockheed Martin executives during the Paris Air Show announcing this impactful investment and demonstrating on an international stage, Arkansas’ favourable conditions for the aerospace business. Gov. Hutchinson said: “Lockheed Martin is a leading technology firm with facilities and clients around the world. […]

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Raytheon engineers are integrating a Warfighter-Machine Interface (WMI) into PDB 8.1, a soon-to-be-fielded Patriot upgrade. This new command and control technology allows coalition operators of Raytheon’s combat-proven Patriot air and missile defence system to view complex data in a new, easy-to-understand way. WMI replaces pixelated shapes and a complex directory system with the type of 3-D visuals, easy-to-read status pages […]

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Robotics firm Kraken has won a $0.9million contract to create unmanned maritime vehicles for the US military.

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The Ministry of Defence’s Defence Electronics & Components Agency (DECA) has signalled their commitment to veterans by signing the Armed Forces Covenant at a ceremony at their facility in Sealand, Deeside. DECA employs over 440 staff, of which more than 10% are ex-service personnel. The agency provides specialised maintenance, repair, overhaul and upgrade services for […]

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L3 Technologies has integrated its Commercial Aviation Solutions (CAS) and Security & Detection Systems (SDS) sectors to streamline its product and services portfolio, providing airlines and airport security operators a single channel for evaluating and purchasing critical aviation and support systems. Effective immediately, the company’s SDS and MacDonald Humfrey (MacH) businesses are part of L3 […]

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Defence Online takes a look at the progress Defence Infrastructure Organisation Commercial Director Jacqui Rock is making in realising her vision to create and sustain a competitive market in the defence facilities management, construction and property advisory sectors.  Jacqui Rock took up her role as Commercial Director at the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) in December 2017; she is responsible for putting in place and maintaining the commercial and […]

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Minister for the Armed Forces Mark Lancaster met with Egyptian Minister of Defence General Mohamed Zaki to discuss enhancing UK-Egypt defence cooperation. The meeting came as a part of the Minister’s first official visit to Egypt, and presented an opportunity to reaffirm the strength of the UK’s defence relationship with Egypt and deepen the longstanding […]

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Meggitt has been awarded a contract for the supply of braking systems for the Eurofighter Typhoon contract with Qatar Air Force. In September 2018, BAE Systems announced a £5 billion order for the delivery of 24 Typhoon aircraft to the Qatar Air Force, resulting in a Meggitt order for braking technology including; wheels, carbon brakes, […]

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Civil engineers from the US DoD have begun construction on a STEM facility for Girl Scouts in Oahu.

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The Royal Navy has announced the partnership between its Royal Marines Commando force and Anduril Industries, a defence technology company specialising in AI powered solutions, to modernise surveillance systems and techniques by utilising cutting edge technologies. As part of the recently announced Modernising Defence Programme and the NavyX accelerator initiative, the Royal Navy is keen […]

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Sodexo has successfully retained its catering and cleaning contract with Avon & Somerset Police for a further five years. Avon and Somerset Police is responsible for law enforcement across Somerset and Avon, including the city of Bristol. The new contract, worth £8 million, will see Sodexo teams support more than 2,500 police officers, and 500 […]

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An RAF exercise in Croatia will see British troops training with French and American personnel to support security in the region.

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Saab has received an additional order from the US Navy for the Sea Giraffe Multi Mode Radar (MMR) for the Coast Guard’s offshore patrol cutter. This additional order exercises an option on an existing contract, which was initially awarded in 2017 and includes multiple line item options for additional Sea Giraffe MMR systems. The initial […]

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A technology kit developed by Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, was used for the first time to operate a Black Hawk helicopter with full-authority, fly-by-wire flight controls. The flight, which took place at the end of May, marked the official start to the Sikorsky flight test program for the soon-to-be optionally piloted aircraft. Follow-on flight […]

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