The US Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman a $59 million contract for the engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) phase of the Embedded Global Positioning System (GPS) /Inertial Navigation System (INS)-Modernisation, or EGI-M, technology. During the EMD phase, Northrop Grumman will develop the critical hardware and software design for the EGI-M, ...
The Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has announced that the UK’s new fleet of submarine hunting aircraft will take to the skies over the Arctic next year. While visiting Royal Marines and Royal Navy personnel on winter training in Norway, Mr Williamson revealed that, as part of their first deployment next year, ...
Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has announced that Wildcat and Apache helicopters are to be deployed to Estonia this year at a meeting of NATO Defence Ministers in Brussels. The Army aircraft will provide aviation training opportunities to NATO allies on Estonia’s annual Exercise Spring Storm as well as to the UK-led ...
The UK’s role as a leading partner on the global F-35 programme has received another significant boost as the F-35 avionic and aircraft component repair hub in North Wales was awarded a second major assignment of work worth some £500M by the US Department of Defense. Following the announcement in 2016 ...