The Ministry of Defence has awarded BAE Systems a £60M contract to upgrade the Royal Navy’s autonomous Sting Ray lightweight torpedo. The team will design and develop the Sting Ray torpedo upgrade over a four-year assessment phase, which will include the construction of prototypes and in-water trials. The upgrade will implement ...
Helping the Royal Navy maintain a skilled and capable workforce amid rapid technological advancements and demographic shifts. The Royal Navy needs to maintain a skilled and capable workforce in the face of rapid technological advancements and demographic shifts so that it can draw on the right people with the right skills ...
In a pan-Defence collaboration, trials of hydrogen fuelled charging facilities to power the electric vehicle fleet have concluded. This marks a significant step forward in the use of sustainable energy sources in Defence. Generating enough electricity to power roughly 120,000 miles of travel, the trial provided learning on the use of hydrogen ...
AI & robotics start-up Oxford Dynamics has secured an Enterprise Agreement Lite with the UK Ministry of Defence worth up to £2M for its generative AI technology to assist with the searching, interrogation and summarising of complex data. This is the first AI focused EA Lite contract of its type ...
October 21, 2025
Maritime - Newest Royal Navy Submarine Achieves First Underwater Milestone at Barrow
BAE Systems’ Barrow-in-Furness site has marked a major achievement in the UK’s submarine programme as the latest Royal Navy Astute-class
February 6, 2025
Maritime - Threat detection systems on Royal Navy warships upgraded
More than 200 UK jobs will be sustained through a new £285M contract awarded to BAE Systems to enhance the
