1,200 UK jobs have been secured through a new contract worth close to £900 million that’s set to keep the British Army’s Apache helicopters – as well as the Royal Air Force’s (RAF) Chinook fleet – ‘mission-ready’. The three-year £879 million contract has been awarded to Boeing Defence UK to maintain ...
Babcock has been awarded a four‑year extension to the Light Aircraft Flying Task (LAFT) contract, continuing delivery of essential military flying training to the Royal Air Force (RAF). The extension reinforces a long-standing partnership with the Ministry of Defence (MOD) enabling trainee pilots to access safe, reliable and cost-effective training. Operating seven days a ...
EnduroSat and Shield Space have entered into a strategic partnership to deliver rapidly deployable autonomous space defence missions for the UK Ministry of Defence and NATO allies. This collaboration aims to establish a new operational standard by reducing the timeline from contract signature to on-orbit operations to as little as ...
The Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) has reached a definitive milestone with the award of its first joint international contract, valued at £686 million. The agreement, announced earlier this month, was placed by the GCAP Agency on behalf of the partner nations – the UK, Italy, and Japan – and ...
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