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  • Britain, Italy, and Japan are reportedly leaning towards choosing the UK as the strategic headquarters for the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP), highlighting London's crucial role in this unpreceden ...
  • Major defense companies from the UK, Japan, and Italy, including BAE Systems, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, and Leonardo SpA, have taken significant steps towards shaping the future of aerial warfare. ...
  • A&P and Cammell Laird have secured contracts from BAE Systems for the production of components for the Royal Navy's Type 26 frigates. These advanced anti-submarine warfare vessels are currently under ...
  • A UK-based manufacturer and supplier of diving and subsea rescue equipment, Submarine Manufacturing and Products Ltd (SMP), has secured a three-year contract to supply their innovative submarine rescu ...
  • Amid escalating tensions in the Western Pacific, Japan's Kishida administration has significantly increased its defense budget, allocating a substantial sum of $53 billion. This significant investment ...
  • The US Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) has granted approval for the sale of 183 General Dynamics Land Systems Stryker armored fighting vehicles to Bulgaria, encompassing various variants, i ...
  • Today, the European Commission and the UK Government have concluded negotiations and reached an agreement in principle on the association of the UK to Horizon Europe and Copernicus under the Trade and ...
  • A new fleet of submarines will be built by the UK and Australia based on the UK’s nuclear-powered submarine design. UK’s submarines will be in operation by the late 2030s following massive, trilateral ...
  • The US Department of Defense (DoD) has been actively involved in quantum science initiatives, concentrating on the study of fundamental units of matter and energy. In response to China's progress in d ...
  • For years, Defense Department officials have emphasized the importance of diversifying the industrial base, aiming to create opportunities for companies beyond the dominant top-tier firms. Five years ...
  • The Romanian Ministry of National Defence, led by Defense Minister Angel Tîlvăr, has formally sought parliamentary approval to purchase 32 F-35 Lightning II fighter jets, with an estimated value of ap ...
  • On August 14, 2023, the Polish Armaments Agency signed three contracts with Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa (PGZ), a local military consortium. The first contract involves PGZ company Rosomak supplying 400 L ...
  • New Zealand is currently grappling with its most complex strategic landscape in many years, marked by a significant power rivalry and a military ill-equipped for upcoming challenges. This assessment a ...
  • Lockheed Martin has introduced a novel establishment for the processing of small satellites. This facility showcases adaptable assembly lines and dedicated testing capacities, aimed at facilitating ra ...
  • The US Army is exploring the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance military operations, with a focus on an AI-powered social media tool named Data Robot. This tool is being tested as ...
  • On August 1st, NATO announced that twenty-three of its member nations have officially become Limited Partners of the NATO Innovation Fund (NIF). This paves the way for the NIF to utilize its €1 billio ...
  • British government ministers Andrew Griffith and James Cartlidge have expressed concerns about the potential impact on Britain's long-term security due to City of London investors who are refraining f ...
  • Lockheed Martin and BWX Technologies have been chosen by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and NASA to collaborate on the development of an innovative nuclear propulsion system. Th ...
  • NASA has selected 11 U.S. companies to develop technologies that could support long-term exploration on the Moon and in space for the benefit of all. The technologies range from lunar surface power sy ...
  • UK's Space Exploration: Technology Roadmap

    31 Jul 2023 UK Government
    The UK's new space exploration technology roadmap responds to the growing global interest in space exploration by identifying crucial technological advancements and breakthroughs. It outlines the UK's ...
  • The UK will today release its refreshed Defence Command Paper (DCP), setting out its key ambitions to shake-up the relationships, organisation and priorities of its forces in coming years. This comes ...
  • The US Army is currently developing a new munition known as the Low Altitude Stalking and Strike Ordnance (LASSO) program, with the purpose of equipping its infantry brigade combat teams (IBCT) with a ...
  • Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has agreed to support Sweden's bid to join Nato, the military alliance's chief Jens Stoltenberg says.
  • Britain's BAE Systems has launched a new innovation division called 'FalconWorks', in a bid to create a more public facing innovation hub in the style of Lockheed Martin's 'Skunk Works' or Boeing's 'F ...

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