The US Army has awarded BAE Systems a contract worth up to $600 million for the sustainment and support of the Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV) over the next five years. The AMPV comes in five variants designed to execute a broad set of missions while operating on the front lines. BAE Systems is currently in low-rate production for ...
WFEL has commenced production of Boxer Mechanised Infantry Vehicles for the British Army at its new manufacturing plant in the North West of England. It is a number of years since any new armoured vehicles have been manufactured in the UK. The fabrication of vehicle sub-assemblies has been taking place over the ...
Writing for Defence Online, Tim Williams, Business Development Manager, QinetiQ, discusses battlefield communications and the need for increased investment to fully achieve the PACE method. Command and Control (C2) communications are inherently complex, but also unavoidably essential, meaning in depth planning is always needed to establish them. And when implementing them ...
The Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) Ministers gathered in Helsinki, Finland to set the roadmap from which the JEF’s 10 northern European nations will evolve to tackle shared threats. The JEF is a multinational force made up of 10 like-minded, northern European nations; the UK – as Framework Nation – together with ...