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DIO awards £20m contract for Typhoon infrastructure at RAF Lossiemouth

Maritime June 24, 2020

The Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) has awarded a contract worth £20-million to Galliford Try for work which will house Number IX (Bomber) Squadron in facilities that are fit for purpose, enabling them to deliver in their role as a Typhoon Aggressor Squadron. Their re-role from Tornado to Typhoon, and move from RAF Marham ...

BAE Systems sells inflatable boats to Austal for new Trinidad and Tobago coast guard ships

Maritime June 23, 2020

BAE Systems are to sell six Pacific 24 Rigid Inflatable Boats to Austal for new Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard Ships. The Rigid Inflatable Boats (RIBs), built and customised in BAE Systems’ Boats factory in Portsmouth, are being supplied to Australia’s Austal to equip two Cape-class Patrol Boats they are building ...

£26.7 million engine support contract for EP Barrus

Maritime June 18, 2020

A £26.7 million contract has been awarded to EP Barrus to supply and maintain outboard and inboard motors fitted to the MOD’s small boats fleet. The Oxfordshire-based Company secured the seven-year contract for the upkeep, update and supply of engines fitted to more than 1,100 craft. The contract covers boats within the ...

iMAST Alliance – Transforming Royal Navy Training, for Royal Navy people

Maritime June 17, 2020

An industry and academic alliance is gearing up to make the world’s most renowned naval training, even better. The iMAST Alliance, a collaboration of three leading UK Maritime defence companies Babcock, QinetiQ and Thales together with technology partners Centerprise International, Learning Technologies Group and academic Institutions, University of Portsmouth and University ...