The Ministry of Defence has awarded Thales UK Limited a contract worth £9.82 million to continue providing the Link 16 Network Management System, the software that monitors and reconfigures one of the UK armed forces’ core tactical data links. The award, published as a contract award notice on 10 August ...
Cambridge-based air defence company Cambridge Aerospace has closed a $300 million Series C funding round, valuing the business at $3.4 billion — a signal to the wider UK defence supply chain that private investors are backing British-built military technology at real scale. The round was led by US venture capital firm ...
The government’s newly published Defence Investment Plan has formally confirmed long-anticipated plans to retire the Royal Air Force’s ageing Hawk fleet, with a new Jet Training System set to take over both frontline fast-jet training and the Red Arrows’ display duties. The Plan states that new jets for “a modernised fast-jet ...
Thales has been selected by the NATO Support and Procurement Agency to supply a Deployable Tactical Air Navigation system to the Spanish Air and Space Force, in a contract that demonstrates the NSPA’s growing role as a direct procurement channel for sovereign defence capability across the alliance. The D-TACAN system – ...