Airbus has secured a contract from Europe’s organisation for the management of cooperative armament programmes – OCCAR – on behalf of NATO Support & Procurement Agency (NSPA) to provide an Airbus A330 MRTT Multi Role Tanker Transport. The order follows the announcement in February of Belgium’s official accession to the European/NATO ...
QinetiQ is to play a key role in OCEAN2020, the first research programme awarded by the European Defence Agency as part of its European Defence Fund initiative. The European Defence Agency recently announced the award of the OCEAN2020 contract to a consortium led by Leonardo, comprising 42 partners from 15 European countries. The ...
For the first time a fully-fledged defence research project – initiated by the Croatian Ministry of Defence and supported by the European Defence Agency (EDA) – has been awarded EU co-funding under the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF). The funding marks a first as, to date, only ‘dual-use’ projects with ...
Celebrating its tenth anniversary, the four-day DSEI 2017 event took place last month at ExCeL London. Defence Online editor Matthew Brown takes you through some of the highlights. This year’s Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) event, held at London’s renowned ExCeL convention centre from 12 to 15 September, was heralded ...