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QinetiQ achieves UK’s first aircraft and autonomous drone teaming

Defence

QinetiQ achieves UK’s first aircraft and autonomous drone teaming

25 April 2024

QinetiQ has successfully trialled the UK’s first Crewed-Uncrewed-Teaming demonstration between a crewed aircraft and an autonomous jet drone.

Birmingham Airport achieves global carbon accreditation

Aerospace

Birmingham Airport achieves global carbon accreditation

25 April 2024

Birmingham Airport (BHX) has achieved Level 3 (optimisation) of the Airport Carbon Accreditation (ACA) scheme for a second year.

Kromek receives US nuclear security contract

Defence Security

Kromek receives US nuclear security contract

25 April 2024

Kromek Group plc has been awarded a contract, worth up to $2.9 million, from a US federal entity for the provision of nuclear security products.

Advance Magazine

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Issue 1, Vol. 14: ADVANCE March - May 2024

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Babcock to manage Type 23 for Royal Navy

Defence

Babcock to manage Type 23 for Royal Navy

25 April 2024

Babcock International Group has been awarded the contract to manage the Type 23 class frigate Refit Support Group, allowing the company to take end-to-end responsibility for vessel upkeep and regeneration in preparation for handover to the ship’s crew.

BAE Systems breaks ground on Maple Grove facility

Defence Events

BAE Systems breaks ground on Maple Grove facility

25 April 2024

BAE Systems’ Combat Mission Systems (CMS) business is marking the start of construction on its new 236,000-square-foot facility in Maple Grove, Minnesota.

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Defence

Leonardo's CEMA to maintain military pilot mission data toolkit

25 April 2024

A mission data toolkit used to help combat pilots in the UK Armed Forces recognise and evade hostile threats will be maintained under £10 million contract by Leonardo’s Cyber and Electromagnetic Activities (CEMA) centre of excellence in Lincoln, UK.

DE&S secures transport vehicles for British Army

Defence

DE&S secures transport vehicles for British Army

25 April 2024

Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S) has secured a contract for the British Army’s Heavy Equipment Transport (HET) capability.

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Review to shape next phase of The Alan Turing Institute

Defence Security

Review to shape next phase of The Alan Turing Institute

25 April 2024

A new review outlining the impact and value of The Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s national institute for data science and AI, has been published.

British aviation set for more SAF

Aerospace

British aviation set for more SAF

25 April 2024

The UK Government has today confirmed new targets to ensure 10% of all jet fuel in flights taking off from the UK comes from sustainable sources by 2030 through its sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) mandate.

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The rise of low-carbon aircraft

Features

The rise of low-carbon aircraft

24 April 2024

Stephen Gifford, Chief Economist at the Faraday Institution, examines the potential of three technologies being developed for future low-carbon aviation.

Putting land equipment capability in the hands of military and defence personnel

Focus

Putting land equipment capability in the hands of military and defence personnel

13 March 2024

DVD2024 marks more than two-decades of the most significant exhibition for Defence industry, DE&S Delivery Teams, Army HQ and Defence community users of Land Equipment. Staged at UTAC Millbrook since 2003, DVD is a two-day event, which will take place on 18th and 19th September 2024.

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Defence

DIO helps underpin NATO’s largest exercise in decades

5 April 2024

The Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) has been enabling and supporting Exercise Steadfast Defender 2024, NATO’s largest military exercise since the Cold War.

Defence Events

MoD Sanctuary Awards celebrate sustainability and conservation

21 March 2024

The 33rd annual Ministry of Defence (MoD) Sanctuary Awards held earlier this week, have recognised the outstanding sustainability and conservation efforts across the MoD in the past year.

Defence

NATO DIANA expands network

18 March 2024

NATO Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) is significantly expanding its transatlantic network of accelerator sites and test centres - doubling in size to more than 200 affiliated sites - which includes five additional UK test centres.

Defence

MoD releases unseen DragonFire LDEW footage

11 March 2024

The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) - along with its defence industry partners MBDA, Leonardo and Qinetiq - is publishing ‘never seen before’ declassified footage of the DragonFire Laser Directed Energy Weapon (LDEW) system, in action over the skies of the Hebrides.

Defence

British Army conducts Ajax subarctic trials

8 March 2024

The British Army’s new generation of armoured fighting vehicles, Ajax, has been put through its paces during cold weather trials in Tåme, Sweden.

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Events Calendar

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May 2024

13 - 15 May 2024
13 - 15 May 2024
21 - 23 May 2024
22 - 23 May 2024

June 2024

5 - 9 June 2024
12 - 13 June 2024
17 - 21 June 2024
25 - 26 June 2024

September 2024

October 2024

16 - 18 October 2024
22 - 26 October 2024
29 - 31 October 2024
30 - 31 October 2024

November 2024

18 - 20 November 2024

December 2024

3 - 5 December 2024

February 2025

17 - 21 February 2025

March 2025

25 - 30 March 2025

May 2025

6 - 8 May 2025
21 - 23 May 2025

June 2025

16 - 22 June 2025

September 2025

9 - 12 September 2025