31 January 2025
Following consultation with stakeholders, the UK's Single Source Regulations Office (SSRO) has issued new guidance regarding the Final Price Adjustment (FPA), which mitigates the impact of excess profits or losses that may arise in non-competitive UK defence contracts.
31 January 2025
Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), has signed a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA), worth €862 Million, related to the design, the development and the delivery of the Lunar Descent Element (LDE) for ESA’s Argonaut Mission, including responsibility for mission design and integration.
31 January 2025
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has released comprehensive data for 2024 full-year and December 2024 global passenger and air cargo market performance, revealing record high demand for both.
30 January 2025
Defence Minister Maria Eagle today opened Babcock's Submarine Availability Support Hub (SASH) in Bristol, which adds to the 42,000 jobs and supply chain of 3,000 businesses already supporting UK efforts to maintain the country's continuous at-sea nuclear deterrent.
30 January 2025
Upgrades enabling Royal Navy Commando Merlin helicopters to embark in and operate from vessels anywhere in the world in support of 3 Commando Brigade – a capability called littoral strike – have achieved full operating capability (FOC).
30 January 2025
Serco has today agreed to acquire Northrop Grumman’s mission training and satellite ground network communications software business (MT&S).
30 January 2025
Today the UK Government is announcing the launch of a new nationwide advertising campaign to further boost UK participation in Horizon Europe, the world’s largest programme of research collaboration.
30 January 2025
The first of the two new generation SpainSat satellites, SpainSat NG-I - built by Airbus Defence and Space - as been successfully launched on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, in the US.
30 January 2025
A £173 million UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) training contract with British business Draken will boost Teesside International Airport and support jobs across Teesside, Bournemouth and the Midlands.
10 January 2025
Peter Lenk, Technical Lead at Goldilock, sets out the key steps for building a timeline of resilience for the protection of Critical National Infrastructure (CNI).
14 January 2025
Commercial aerospace is rapidly diversifying, with the traditional fleet of airliners and business jets set to be joined by electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) taxis and the next generation of supersonic aircraft. What they all have in common is a requirement for high-performance precision motors to provide mission-critical motion ...
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14 January 2025
Earth's average surface temperature in 2024 was the warmest on record, according to an analysis led by NASA scientists.
14 January 2025
The future of ‘invisible war’ has been trialled by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) using emerging and next generation electromagnetic (EM) concepts.
7 January 2025
The final drone flight trials of Project CAELUS have taken place between Dr Gray’s Hospital in Elgin and Aberdeen during November and December.
7 January 2025
Police Scotland has launched the second phase of a national advertising campaign with TV, radio and digital advertising to recruit police officers across Scotland.
4 December 2024
Scientists and engineers from the University of Bristol and the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) have successfully created the world’s first carbon-14 diamond battery, which has game-changing applications, including in the space sector.
