A £180 million contract to deliver cutting edge threat detection technology for the British Army’s new Boxer vehicles will support hundreds of jobs in Glasgow, it has been announced. The 10-year Remote Weapons Stations (RWS) contract will protect over 700 jobs at Thales UK’s Glasgow site while supporting 30 apprenticeships. It uses ...
The Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has confirmed to fellow Defence Ministers representing NATO’s 30 members that the UK will scale up its own commitment in line with the Alliance’s expansion of NATO Mission Iraq. The virtual Defence Ministerial also provided the opportunity for the Defence Secretary to detail to allies how ...
The UK and Australian governments are funding innovative proposals to integrate advanced materials into military platforms such as armoured vehicles. Defence research and development ties between the UK and Australia have been strengthened further under a bilateral international program to accelerate the integration of advanced materials into military platforms. Nine teams of ...
Northrop Grumman’s UK team has successfully demonstrated its command and control (C2) system in a denied satellite communications (SATCOM) environment during NATO’s Coalition Warrior Interoperability eXercise (CWIX 2020). The fully distributed virtual event connected force labs in the UK and the US. across the classified Combined Federated Battle Laboratories Network to ...
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