A UK-led design has been chosen for the first generation of AUKUS nuclear submarines that will be built in the UK and Australia. The new fleet of submarines will be in operation by the late 2030s following a massive, trilateral building project which will create thousands of jobs in the UK. The ...
DASA funding has helped a Northern Ireland SME deliver personnel and accounting technology to the Royal Navy’s aircraft carriers. Northern Ireland-based SME, Kinsetsu, has developed a resilient and scalable platform to accurately account for and locate personnel on Royal Navy ships, providing immediate insight of all souls on board, as well ...
Lockheed Martin is partnering with the US Navy to integrate hypersonic strike capability onto surface ships. The US Navy awarded the contract, worth more than $2bn, to integrate the Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) weapon system onto ZUMWALT-class guided missile destroyers (DDGs). CPS is a hypersonic boost-glide weapon system that enables long ...
A multi-million-pound Zero Emission Vessels and Infrastructure (ZEVI) competition has been launched to help decarbonise the UK’s maritime sector. This is the first time in UK history the government is intervening to specifically target this level of funding on green maritime tech which is already well developed. The funding will take ...