Defence Blog Posts

The Defence Infrastructure Organisation has chosen the team for the £160 million Ministry of Defence project to build an F-35 flight simulator, maintenance unit, new hangars and storage facilities at RAF Lakenheath. HLM will work alongside the Engineering and construction firm Kier VolkerFitzpatrick to design and deliver the new facilities. The Suffolk airbase will be […]

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The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded BAE Systems a contract valued at $9.2 million for its Radio Frequency Machine Learning System (RFMLS) program. As part of the program, the company aims to develop new, data-driven machine learning algorithms that will help to decipher the ever-growing number of RF signals, providing commercial […]

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Iain Moran, Head of High Security Sales for the UK, USA and Australia at ATG Access, examines how airports can improve security against hostile vehicle attacks  Recently, a man drove a stolen car through the automatic glass doors near the main entrance to Terminal 1 of Lyon’s Saint-Exupery airport. He then drove through the building, injuring a worker […]

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KBRwyle, has been awarded two base operating support services (BOSS) contracts worth a total of almost $54 million by Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Europe, Africa and Southwest Asia. Most recently, KBRwyle received a $23.5 million cost-plus-award-fee task order to provide base operating support services at a Naval Support Facility in Poland. The period of performance […]

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Two ‘first of a kind’ 5kg satellites built in Glasgow and funded by the UK Space Agency have been launched from India. The satellites, which were designed and built by Spire Global, are unique due to their function, tiny size, low cost and quick build time. This style of satellite could revolutionise work in space, which […]

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Armed Forces Minister Mark Lancaster has visited RAF Coningsby, one of the two bases from which RAF fast jets rapidly launch to protect UK skies. In the last month alone RAF Typhoons have scrambled on four occasions to respond to Russian aircraft posing a risk to civilian flights. Since the beginning of 2016, there have […]

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Lockheed Martin will contribute $1.5 million to the University of Central Florida (UCF) for the development of a new cyber innovation lab that will foster the next generation of cyber talent. According to a recent study published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, there’s a dangerous shortage of cybersecurity workers in the United […]

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Lockheed Martin has successfully bid for two contracts around the integration and production of Legion Pod, courtesy of F-15 prime contractor Boeing. As part of the appointment, Lockheed Martin will look to fulfill a 28-month Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) contract and a separate Low-Rate Initial Production (LRIP) contract to produce 19 systems. For the […]

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Defence Procurement, Research, Technology & Exportability (DPRTE), the sector’s premier procurement event, will take place at Birmingham’s NEC on 28 March 2019. With a hugely diverse set of requirements, across a vast array of goods and services, the Ministry of Defence is Britain’s industry’s largest customer, buying everything from office equipment to education services and […]

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Zeki Turedi, Technology Strategist, CrowdStrike takes a look at the most prevalent cybersecurity issues, highlighting threats, appropriate responses and prevention.    The UK is currently on the front line for cyber attacks. The amount of intellectual property and personal data we hold are a key target for threat actors, and recently we’ve seen a huge […]

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Representatives from the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) have received an award in recognition of their work in the cyber security field. The award winners beat off stiff competition from more than 350 entries, with the Dstl Cyber Card Game receiving an ‘Institution of Engineering and Technology’ (IET) award. Dstl’s entry utilizes ‘gamification science’ […]

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The Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has announced he has secured the protection of British home waters by retaining three of the Royal Navy’s patrol ships. The decision secures the future of the Batch 1 Offshore Patrols Vessels (OPVs), HMS Tyne, HMS Mersey and HMS Severn, which currently support the Fishery Protection Squadron. They will be retained for […]

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