Babcock International Group (Babcock), working with the Defence Nuclear Enterprise (DNE), has reached the next significant milestone to fully dismantle a nuclear-powered submarine, Swiftsure, at its facility in Rosyth. As part of the UK’s demonstrator project, the company has recently awarded the recycling contract to KDC Veolia Decommissioning Services UK Ltd (KDCV). Babcock’s ...
The Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) and the Royal Navy have concluded a contract-signing and groundbreaking ceremony for a major construction project at Royal Naval Air Station (RNAS) Culdrose in Cornwall. This marks the beginning of work on a £99.5M project to replace and refurbish the 820 Naval Air Squadron (NAS) hangars, ...
The biggest reform of the Ministry of Defence in over 50 years to fix what the Public Accounts Committee calls the ‘broken’ defence procurement system and to strengthen UK Defence, has been launched by the Defence Secretary. The biggest reform of the Ministry of Defence in over 50 years to fix ...
Open-source intelligence (OSINT) is now critical to defence and national security, but the sheer volume of available online multi-media data and its complexity put analysis beyond human ability. Whereas this might have been a severe restriction a few years ago, advances in technology are streamlining analysis of a vaster array and ...
October 29, 2024
Maritime - Babcock cuts steel on third Type 31 Inspiration Class frigate, HMS Formidable
Babcock has cut steel on HMS Formidable, the third of five Inspiration Class frigates the company is building for the
October 10, 2024
Land - Babcock and ST Engineering launch UK-manufactured Mortar to strengthen UK defence capabilities
Babcock International Group (Babcock), the defence company, in partnership with ST Engineering, a technology, defence and engineering Group has unveiled
