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The Ministry of Defence has awarded Skanska UK a £259 million contract to deliver the Vehicle Storage Support Programme (VSSP) at Ashchurch, Tewkesbury. Contracted via the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO), Skanska together with the Technical Services Provider, MACE, will provide modern, sustainable and effective storage and maintenance solutions for the British ...


The first four CV90 Combat Support Vehicles were delivered to the Norwegian Armed Forces during a ceremony hosted by local industry partner Ritek AS in Levanger, Norway. The four vehicles are the first of 20 modernised CV90 engineering vehicles BAE Systems will deliver, in partnership with Ritek and the Norwegian Defense Materiel ...


An innovative digital project launching at the Defence Academy is poised to make decades of defence research available to UK defence personnel and allies. The Defence Academy Research Engine (DARE) is due to launch in September 2022. Designed by the Centre for Defence Education Research and Analysis (CDERA), the DARE will be ...


In four weeks of continuous live-fire exercises, an industry team led by Raytheon Intelligence & Space and Kord, a wholly owned subsidiary of KBR, defeated multiple 60mm mortar rounds with a 50kW-class high energy laser integrated on a Stryker combat vehicle. The directed energy weapon system — part of the US ...


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