A contract to provide critical maintenance, servicing and hard facilities management to the Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) Cyprus estate has officially come into service. Awarded to Mitie Defence Limited in April, the £256M Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) contract covers every part of the MOD estate in Cyprus, including: RAF Akrotiri, Episkopi, ...
VIVO Defence Services is sponsoring RAF Corporal John Stanbridge in his team bid to gain gold as part of the Great British Bobsleigh team. Avionics instructor John, 33, is the pilot of his sled team – one of three British teams competing at international level in the European Cup. Team Stanbridge is ...
A ground-breaking Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) funded project has restored an area of wetland on the River Avon in West Chisenbury, part of the Salisbury Plain Training Area (SPTA). The ‘first of its kind’, the project is enhancing the biodiversity of the local area by improving the watercourse and natural floodplain, ...
The FEDERATES consortium, coordinated and led by Rheinmetall has been selected by the European Union for €30 million in funding. The European Commission has picked the consortium to implement a prototype service-oriented innovative solution for distributed synthetic training and decision support. The “distributed synthetic simulation environment” draws on a multitude of different ...