In four weeks of continuous live-fire exercises, an industry team led by Raytheon Intelligence & Space and Kord, a wholly owned subsidiary of KBR, defeated multiple 60mm mortar rounds with a 50kW-class high energy laser integrated on a Stryker combat vehicle. The directed energy weapon system — part of the US ...
Babcock has been awarded a 10-year contract to provide dry-dock maintenance for the Royal Navy’s Queen Elizabeth class (QEC) aircraft carriers. The new £30m contract follows a previous maintenance period where Babcock completed the first docking for HMS Queen Elizabeth at the Rosyth site in 2019 and includes all routine maintenance ...
General Electric (GE) has announced a five-year, $3.5 million (£2.5m) investment in the UK as part of its global Next Engineers programme, to increase the diversity of young people entering engineering. The UK programme will be based in Staffordshire, where GE operates three sites that design, develop, and service products used throughout the ...
Writing for Defence Online, Dennis Mattoon and Michael Mattoli, Co-chairs of the Supply Chain Security Work Group at Trusted Computing Group (TCG), examine the critical role of the defence supply chain. The nature of threats facing the defense industry have changed considerably over the past decade. As innovation continues to deliver ...