Panel Briefing: Prime Contractors Opening Doors for Scottish SMEs

A briefing from the Scottish Defence Procurement and Supply Chain Summit, Glasgow If the opening panel of SDS set out the strategic prize, the second panel got into the practical detail SMEs in the room had come to hear. Titled Prime Contractors Opening Doors for Scottish SMEs, this was the candid conversation about what actually […]

MOD Eyes Market for Major Harrogate Training College Contract as PFI Era Ends

The Ministry of Defence is actively scoping the market for a new contract to operate the Army Foundation College (AFC) in Harrogate - one of the British Army's most distinctive training establishments - as its long-running Private Finance Initiative agreement approaches expiry.

The Ministry of Defence is actively scoping the market for a new contract to operate the Army Foundation College (AFC) in Harrogate – one of the British Army’s most distinctive training establishments – as its long-running Private Finance Initiative agreement approaches expiry. The college is the Army’s dedicated Phase 1 training environment for Junior Soldiers […]

ZeroUSV Demonstrates UK Sovereign Maritime Capability During VIP Tour

ZeroUSV welcomed recently representatives from the Royal Navy, MOD and NSO (National Shipbuilding Office) to Manor Marine’s headquarters in Portland for a VIP tour showcasing the company’s expanding autonomous maritime capabilities. The visit follows ZeroUSV’s recent strategic investment in Manor Marine, strengthening the partnership and boosting sovereign UK production capacity for the company’s Oceanus class […]

First Boeing E-7 Wedgetail Arrives at RAF Lossiemouth

The RAF's next-generation airborne early warning aircraft has touched down in Scotland, with the first Boeing E-7 Wedgetail AEW Mk1 arriving at RAF Lossiemouth

The RAF’s next-generation airborne early warning aircraft has touched down in Scotland, with the first Boeing E-7 Wedgetail AEW Mk1 arriving at RAF Lossiemouth on 21 May – greeted, appropriately, by a member of the station’s pipe band. Registered as WT001, the aircraft departed STS Aviation Services at Birmingham Airport before flying north to its […]