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Royal Navy completes vital upgrades to rearming jetty

Maritime January 18, 2022

Official DPRTE 2022 event partner, the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO), has completed a significant series of upgrades to the Northern Ammunition Jetty at Glen Mallan near Helensburgh. The jetty, which is used to load and unload ammunition for the Royal Navy’s surface fleet, was last upgraded in the 1970s and had ...

First new FDIS contracts comes into force in Scotland and Northern Ireland

Land December 29, 2021

The first of the new Future Defence Infrastructure Services (FDIS) contracts has now come into service. The £160-million contract, which will provide key maintenance work, repairs, servicing, and hard facilities management to more than 4,400 Defence buildings across Scotland and Northern Ireland, is being delivered by Mitie on behalf of the ...

Arrival of first US F-35 aircraft marks major milestone for DIO upgrades

Air December 28, 2021

The first four of the US Air Force’s new F-35 aircraft to be based in Europe have arrived at RAF Lakenheath, having been flown across the Atlantic from manufacturer Lockheed Martin’s factory in the USA. This is an important milestone both for the US Air Force personnel stationed at the Suffolk ...

DIO awards new delivery partner contracts for US Visiting Forces sites

Land December 3, 2021

The Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) has recently awarded three new contracts to support infrastructure upgrades at UK armed forces bases used by the United States Visiting Forces (USVF). The Delivery Partner Technical Support contracts have been awarded to AECOM, Tetra Tech and Mace, which is a consortium of Mace, Turner Townsend ...