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Defence and Security Accelerator celebrates one year anniversary

Homeland December 14, 2017

The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) has this week celebrated its first anniversary; the culmination of a year’s worth of defence innovation. The Accelerator was initially launched in December 2016 as part of the Defence Innovation Initiative with a mandate for finding and funding exploitable innovations – those technologies with potential ...

MoD award £4.49 million body armour contract

Land December 13, 2017

The Ministry of Defence has agreed a contract worth £4.49 million with Morgan Advanced Materials to supply body armour. The contract will see the Composites and Defence business of Morgan deliver hard body armour that has been designed and manufactured to bespoke requirements. The ultra-lightweight LASA LWB III+SA06 plate weighs just 1kg and ...

Defence Secretary briefed on Scotland’s key role

Land November 22, 2017

The new Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has been briefed on how Scotland benefits from and contributes to UK defence and National Security. Mr Williamson met with Scotland’s three most senior military officers – the Flag Officer Scotland and Northern Ireland Rear Admiral John Weale; General Officer Scotland, Major General Bob Bruce; ...

Babcock and BMT sign future surface ships cooperation agreement

Maritime November 10, 2017

Babcock and BMT have signed a cooperation agreement, which outlines the principles of a strategic relationship that will see the companies collaborate to support the Design, Build, Construction and Support of future classes of Surface Ships for the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) and other international projects. The initial focus will ...