A NATO-led multinational operational exercise has taken place off the coast of Scotland, during which a Raytheon built Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) intercepted a ballistic missile target at sea. Dubbed ‘Formidable Shield 17’, this was an integrated air and missile defence exercise aimed at replicating real-life threat scenarios. With support from the ...
The Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon, along with the Minister for the Armed Forces and Minster for Defence Procurement, met US Secretary of the Navy for the first time. During the meeting a number of defence and security issues were reviewed including close Carrier cooperation, deepening capability collaboration on F-35s and ...
General Dynamics Information Technology – the business arm of General Dynamics – is to provide enterprise IT and cyber security services to the Naval Surface Warfare Centre (NSWC) Crane Division in accordance with a newly awarded contract courtesy of the US Naval Sea Systems Command. The single-award, task order contract has ...
Thales has secured a seven year contract worth £100M to provide through-life support for communications systems of the Royal Navy’s fleet. The contract provides Thales with the responsibility to maintain, support and manages through-life the Royal Navy’s communications systems across the majority of the Fleet’s platforms, from the state-of-the-art systems aboard ...