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GB-Erith: 2 Industrial Warehouse Units

Scheme comprises construction of two warehouses for light industrial use (B1(c)) with associated parking. The associated works include sewer systems, landscaping, infrastructure, enabling and access roads.
Detailed plans have been granted.
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Asteroid Mining: The future of space exploration

In this feature John Baker, Head of Global Operations for the National Security and Resilience and Event Horizon Consortium; Mitch Hunter Scullion, CEO of the Asteroid Mining Corporation; and Luke Deamer, MESci (Hons) Geology; examine asteroid mining and what the future holds for the UK space sector. Asteroids are the minor planets of the inner […]

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Smiths Detection to develop next generation chemical detector

Smiths Detection has been selected by the US Department of Defense’s Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense (JPEO-CBRND)’s Joint Project Manager, Nuclear Biological Chemical Contamination Avoidance (JPM-NBC CA) to be one of the suppliers to design and engineer an Aerosol and Vapor Chemical Agent Detector (AVCAD). Intended as the next […]

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Babcock secure HMS Queen Elizabeth maintenance contract

Defence Minister Stuart Andrew has announced that Babcock’s Rosyth dockyard has been awarded a contract to carry out the first planned dry-dock maintenance of Britain’s largest warship, HMS Queen Elizabeth. The contract worth £5 million, will see the 65,000-tonne carrier to undergo a routine, planned hull survey and maintenance of her underwater systems over a […]

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MBDA demonstrates Mistral missile against surface vessels

MBDA has successfully demonstrated the use of the Mistral missile against fast boats such as FIACs (Fast Inshore Attack Craft). A number of foreign delegations attended the demonstration firing that was performed from a SIMBAD-RC automated naval turret firing from the land against a fast moving remotely-controlled semi-rigid boat more than three kilometres off the coast. The […]

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US Navy commissions Littoral Combat Ship Wichita

The US Navy has officially commissioned its newest freedom-variant littoral combat ship (LCS), the future USS Wichita. During a ceremony held at Naval Station Mayport in Florida – where the USS Wichita will one day be based – US Senator Jerry Moran of Kansas delivered the principal address. In time-honored US Navy tradition, ship’s sponsor Kate […]

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US Air Force accepts first Boeing Pegasus tanker aircraft

The US Air Force has accepted the first Boeing KC-46A Pegasus tanker aircraft, setting the stage for the aircraft’s delivery to McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita, Kansas in the coming weeks. During extensive flight testing, six KC-46 completed more than 3,800 flight hours and offloaded more than four million pounds of fuel to A-10, […]

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Fire Safety Consultants and Risk Assessors

The awarding authority is procuring the fire safety services Frameworks. This tender relates to FS1-C: Fire Safety Consultancy Services BAFE 205 or equivalent companies that offer one of the following workstreams Workstream 1: Fire engineers – To Advise

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Spanish Chinook fleet to be modernised by Boeing

Boeing has been contracted to comprehensively upgrade the Spanish CH-47D Chinook helicopter fleet and introduce the more modern F-model configuration. 17 Chinooks are to be upgraded by Boeing, bringing digital automatic flight control systems, common avionics architecture and advanced cargo handling capability to the Spanish fleet. As the first order placed by a non-US customer, […]

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General Dynamics awarded Abrams Main Battle Tank upgrade

General Dynamics Land Systems has been awarded a $714 million contract to upgrade 174 additional M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tanks to the M1A2 System Enhancement Package Version 3 (SEPv3) configuration on behalf of the US Army. According to General Dynamics, this recent award brings the total number of M1A2 SEPv3 tanks ordered by the US […]

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Defence Secretary looks to next century of British air power

The Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has revealed that Britain’s combat air power has reached new heights whilst speaking in a brand-new hangar displaying one-hundred years of fighter jets. Speaking at RAF Marham, the Defence Secretary announced the UK now has nine F-35 Lightning jets ready to be deployed on operations around the world. The F-35 […]

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FY 19 AE Design

01/08/18

THIS IS A PROPOSED INDEFINITE DELIVERY INDEFINITE QUANTITY (IDIQ) CONTRACT FOR MISCELLANEOUS DESIGN SERVICES PRIMARILY WITHIN THE MEMPHIS DISTRICT.

1. CONTRACT INFORMATION: The services to be procured under this announcement are class

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Job Order Contract (ID/IQ)

Statement of Work (SOW)

C.1. PURPOSE AND SCOPE

1.1. This Job Order Contract (JOC) is an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) contract for a broad range of general construction intended to provide rapid response for new construction,

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Social houses to be prioritised for former service personnel with PTSD

Former service personnel suffering from PTSD or other mental illnesses will be prioritised for social housing under proposals published for consultation by Communities Secretary, James Brokenshire. The measures will also help people who divorce or separate from their partners in the Armed Forces by exempting them from rules requiring them to be a local resident […]

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