The Minister for Defence Procurement, Harriet Baldwin reaffirmed to UK’s close relationship with the US in her visit Washington DC, where she met with US Deputy Secretary of Defence Robert Work. The US has an old and close relationship with the UK, through NATO, UN Security Council membership and as leading ...
Monday 26th September saw AlSat Nano – a joint CubeSat mission between the UK Space Agency and Algerian Space Agency, successfully launched from India. Contact with the satellite was established shortly after launch and orbital injection from the Surrey Space Centre (University of Surrey) ground station in Guildford. A number of ...
ASV Global has signed a licence agreement through Ploughshare Innovations, the transfer arm of the Dstl, with UK MOD, allowing use of its Advanced Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) Capability technology. ASV has been working with funding from Dstl and a recent showcase of MAST technology was viewed on the Thames. This ...
On 30 September 2016 the AirTanker consortium, of which Cobham is a shareholder, reached the final milestone in the Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft (FSTA) programme with the achievement of ‘Full Service Date’. The FSTA project, the largest private-funded defence project to date, includes a 27-year contract through to 2035 that covers ...