A new £150 million contract to provide key services for the UK Armed Forces serving in Germany and Italy has been awarded to Mitie Defence Limited by the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO). Covering the MOD’s military accommodation, as well as military and adventurous training sites in Germany and a school and ...
Babcock is delighted to have successfully achieved certification to the Carbon Trust Route to Net Zero Standard – Taking Action tier. The verification and certification process involved a quantitative assessment of carbon emissions, as well as a qualitative assessment of governance, carbon measurements, implementation, and stakeholder engagement. The Carbon Trust confirmed that ...
Work at Salisbury Plain Training Area has uncovered an Anglo-Saxon burial site during an archaeological dig. The team of military veterans, archaeologists from Wessex Archaeology and the DIO has unearthed a large bone and antler comb and some iron shears, in what they describe as the richest grave uncovered this year. ...
A new DASA competition has been launched to find novel and innovative proposals to develop and improve explosives and weapons detection capabilities. This £3.1M competition is part of the Innovative Research Call (IRC) 2023 for Explosives and Weapons Detection, a cross-government programme that seeks proposals from industry and academia for the screening ...