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£1Bn deal for UK test and training sites agreed by MOD

Air December 2, 2016

MOD agrees £1Bn contract amendments that will deliver £300M of efficiencies over the next 11 years. An amendment agreed by the MOD to the existing Long Term Partnering Agreement (LTPA) contract with the UK company QinetiQ, will allow modernisation and running of some of its UK test and training sites, that ...

Unmanned systems: disrupting the defence marketplace

November 29, 2016

Unmanned systems, whether aerial, land-based or marine, are taking the defence marketplace by storm, their remote technology allowing intelligence to be collected and transmitted from warzones without risking lives. Yet with this power come ethical and commercial challenges, as Plextek’s Defence Business Manager Peter Doig explains in this interview with ...

Partnership: taking the Whole Force Approach in defence

November 25, 2016

Keith Skempton CBE DL is a retired Major General who has been employed in commercial defence activities, both manufacturing and property and infrastructure, since leaving the Army. He is now an independent consultant. Here, Mr Skempton explains the importance of partnership working and the adoption of a new ‘Whole Force ...

UK MOD chooses VBS3 for Defence Virtual Simulation solution

Land November 24, 2016

The UK Ministry of Defence has chosen Bohemia Interactive Simulations’ solution, VBS3, as its Virtual Simulation solution. By acquiring an enterprise licence for BISim’s flagship solution, the software will allow interoperability, accessibility and a deployable virtual simulation capability across the MOD. Virtual Battlespace 3 (VBS3) will allow training in simulated scenarios ...