Lockheed Martin has invested £23 million in the UK in the last year and recently opened a £5.5 million tank turret manufacturing facility in Ampthill. Here LM Business Development Director for UK and Ampthill, Richard Muir, tells MOD Defence Contracts Bulletin Features Editor, Julie Shennan, about the new opportunities in ...
With budget being reduced between 2015 and 2017, the MOD is moving away from bespoke solutions and towards a model in which requirements are fulfilled in part by Commercial Off The Shelf technology. Here Peter Doig, Plextek Business Manager for Defence, and Dr Aled Catherall, Plextek Technology Lead for Defence, talk ...
Jacobs Engineering Group has received a contract from the Ministry of Defence to provide technical support to the Service Provision and Transformation Contract associated with the MOD’s Strategic Support Supplier (SSS) project for land equipment use in the UK. The SSS project focuses on ensuring the availability of equipment for training ...
Satellite technology can be harnessed and utilised by almost every industry in some form. Satellites have the power to improve telecommunications, detect illegal activity and even help the environment. MOD DCB features writer Domhnall Macinnes caught up with Stuart Martin, CEO of the Satellite Applications Catapult, to discuss today’s satellite ...