Atkins’ John Drever discusses how collaboration between project managers and systems engineers will need to evolve, to achieve an agile approach in Defence procurement. In 2021, the Ministry of Defence (MOD) launched its Digital Strategy, with the goal to ‘persistently deliver transformative digital capabilities to enable sustainable military and business advantage’. ...
Facilities to power the Royal Navy’s new aircraft carriers have taken a major step forward with the delivery of a frequency converter. The frequency converter will play a major part in providing the ships with enough electricity to power a small town. When at their home port, HMNB Portsmouth, HMS Queen ...
Lockheed Martin has signed a contract with NASA to deploy SkyFire, a 6U CubeSat planned to launch to the moon in 2018 with Orion’s Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1). This ground-breaking infrared camera will take high-quality images with a lighter, simpler unit. This reduction in mass means lower payload cost and easier manoeuvrability ...