The Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) has awarded a contract worth £17-million to Kier Graham Defence Ltd to ready Bassingbourn Barracks for the relocation of the British Army’s Mission Training and Mobilisation Centre (MTMC). The MTMC delivers crucial pre-deployment training for approximately 12,500 personnel every year and has recently trained a battlegroup heading out ...
Six companies have been awarded a share of £3m to develop new semi-autonomous concept demonstrators for the British Army. The winners will demonstrate their autonomous innovations at the Army Warfighting Experiment (AWE19) in April 2020. The competition, run by the Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA), sought to find collaborative ideas that could ...
The British Army, in partnership with DE&S, has launched the latest Army Warfighting Experiment to test new technology. The ongoing Army Warfighting Experiment (AWE) has been launched again by the British Army in partnership with Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S) to try out new technology and provide feedback on equipment. New ...
Penny Mordaunt has announced new rules to address the problem of inappropriate conduct in the armed forces. Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt announced the new guidelines which will implement changes in culture to fight inappropriate conduct and improve conditions for personnel. A new report found that while the vast majority of personnel ...