The Defence Secretary and Shipbuilding Tsar Ben Wallace has met representatives from some of Britain’s most successful maritime companies in the south west. The Defence Secretary and Shipbuilding Tsar Ben Wallace met with Pendennis Shipyard, A&P Falmouth and Harland & Wolff Appledore to discuss how closer working between government and British ...
The UK is set to become the first European nation to operate a Maritime Ballistic Missile Defence capability that can detect and destroy Anti-Ship Ballistic Missiles as it commits to a significant upgrade of Britain’s fleet of Type 45 destroyers. The upgraded defence system, using the ASTER 30 Block 1 missile ...
Babcock has been awarded a 10-year contract to provide dry-dock maintenance for the Royal Navy’s Queen Elizabeth class (QEC) aircraft carriers. The new £30m contract follows a previous maintenance period where Babcock completed the first docking for HMS Queen Elizabeth at the Rosyth site in 2019 and includes all routine maintenance ...
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has been awarded a sole-source delivery task order from Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division (NSWCCD) to provide structural hardware for the propulsor of the Navy’s new Columbia-class submarine. The delivery task order is part of a broad Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Propulsor Demonstration Hardware ...