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Viasat wins US Special Ops communications and cyber security contract

Viasat has been awarded an Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) worth up to $350M for advanced equipment, systems, services and support. The global communications company will provide advanced equipment, systems, services and support to significantly modernise ground/air situational awareness, tactical data links, terrestrial networking, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), tactical satellite communications, information assurance, network […]

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French Minister welcomes first C-130J Super Hercules aircraft

The French Minister of the Armed Forces, Florence Parly, has officially welcomed the country’s very first C-130J Super Hercules aircraft to the Armée de l’Air’s 62st Transport Wing. Government officials from France and the United States of America attended a ceremony held at Orléans-Bricy Air Base on 15th January 2018 – alongside representatives from Lockheed […]

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2 Hotels

Scheme comprises construction of a 9 storey 375 bedroom hotel (use class C1) and a 9 storey 254 bedroom hotel (use class C1) with associated landscaping, car parking, cycle storage, sub-station, external drop off and service area. Sustainable Information

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US Air Force readies SBIRS GEO Flight-4 satellite for launch

The fourth US Air Force Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) satellite to be built by Lockheed Martin has now been encapsulated. Completion of this final milestone means that the SBIRS GEO Flight-4 satellite will meet its planned January 18th launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, propelled by a […]

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DASA to hold Market Interest Day for Defence People Challenge

The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) are to hold a Market Interest day on 7 February 2018 in London to help shape the upcoming Defence People Challenge. In September 2016 the Defence Secretary launched the Defence Innovation Initiative, which acknowledged that we needed a new approach to innovation in order to maintain our military advantage and […]

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MASS demonstrates training expertise with Exercise Eagle Warrior

MASS has supported the RAF-led Exercise Eagle Warrior at the RAF College, Cranwell, which saw over 200 personnel participate in the event, including several senior members of the RAF leadership team. The event formed part of an annual series of horizon-scanning events run by Air Command to shape, test and review RAF capability development. Eagle […]

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Armoured Vehicles- Exporting Opportunity

Sectors Automotive and Security
Opportunity type Private Sector
A company is looking for a supplier of both luxury and armoured vehicles for civilian and state clients.
You should be able to supply:
a range of premium vehicles, for example Range Rover,

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Cascade Aerospace to modernise FAM’s Hercules aircraft

Cascade Aerospace has secured a contract for the avionics modernisation of one Fuerza Aérea Mexicana (FAM) L-100 (C-130) Hercules aircraft. The contract follows on the recent delivery of two modernised C-130K Hercules aircraft delivered to the FAM and fitted with advanced digital avionics from Rockwell Collins. This program will be contracted through the Canadian Commercial […]

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General Dynamics wins US Army Medical Command Regional Training Contract

General Dynamics Information Technology has won a contract from the US Army Medical Command for professional training and operations services in support of the US Army Reserve regional training sites-medical programme. The single-award contract has a potential value of approximately $58.9 million for a one-year base period with four option years. General Dynamics Information Technology, […]

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Saab to demonstrate anti-submarine training system to US Navy

Defence and security specialist Saab plans to demonstrate its anti-submarine warfare training system – the AUV62-AT – to the US Navy, it has been announced. During the demonstration, the US Navy will evaluate the AUV62-AT – an artificial acoustic system designed to mimic a submarine – to see how it stacks up against the Navy’s […]

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MDA Technology Alternatives

U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Science and Technology Directorate
Borders and Maritime Security Division

Request for Information (RFI) No: DHS 18-RFI-00003

Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) Technology Alternatives

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Dstl bring boy’s submarine design to life

Apprentices from the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) have brought a seven-year-old boy’s dream submarine design to life. Jacob Bland, from Suffolk, drew his water-propelled design and wrote to Dstl asking if they would like to make it and use it for “sneaking and spying”. With the drawing, Dstl’s scientific apprentices worked up the […]

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Gibbs & Cox appointed to Multi-Mission Surface Combatant contract

Lockheed Martin has announced the appointment of independent naval architect and marine engineer Gibbs & Cox in support of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Multi-Mission Surface Combatant (MMSC). Previously, Lockheed Martin’s MMSC was chosen to fulfil the Royal Saudi Naval Forces multi-mission surface combatant requirement. In May of last year both the United States Navy […]

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