Design work for the next-generation of Royal Navy submarines is underway following the award of two contracts to UK industry, the Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has announced. Two contracts worth £85 million each had been awarded to BAE Systems and Rolls-Royce to deliver design and concept work for a future Class ...
The future of the Royal Navy and how it could further embrace autonomous technology, including drones, will be unveiled at DSEI this year. Led by a design challenge for young engineers from UK Naval Engineering Science and Technology (UKNEST), the Royal Navy will develop a Future Autonomous Fleet programme that could ...
Contracts have been awarded to four consortia, all of which include significant UK involvement, to develop their bids to build three new Fleet Solid Support ships for the Royal Fleet Auxiliary and Royal Navy. The award of the Competitive Procurement Phase (CPP) design contracts, each initially worth around £5 million, means ...
The safety management requirement to record the presence of sailors on board ships is being overhauled using new technologies being trialled by the Royal Navy. The traditional system for recording sailors entering or leaving a vessel is a simple pegging in/out board. This records the number of Souls on Board (SOB) ...