Day: July 13, 2026

£180 million runway overhaul gets underway at RAF Brize Norton

Aerial image of the new Atlas aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul facility at RAF Brize Norton in the UK. The hangar was built under Defence Infrastructure Organisation contracts and has cost approximately £70 million including fit-out work, with activity in the facility ramping up since late 2016 when it was handed to Defence Equipment and Support, the MOD’s procurement organisation.

A major infrastructure programme is now underway at RAF Brize Norton, the UK’s busiest military air base, as part of a wider push to renew and future-proof critical airfield infrastructure across the Defence estate. The project, delivered by the Defence Infrastructure Organisation, will see the base’s 3km runway surface fully replaced alongside refurbishment of taxiways, […]

Kraken and Capewell complete world’s first airdrop of an uncrewed surface vessel

Kraken Technology Group and Capewell, working with the Royal Navy under Project Beehive, have successfully completed the world's first extracted-load airdrop of an uncrewed surface vessel from an A400M military transport aircraft, demonstrating a new rapid-insertion capability for maritime force projection.

Kraken Technology Group and Capewell, working with the Royal Navy under Project Beehive, have successfully completed the world’s first extracted-load airdrop of an uncrewed surface vessel from an A400M military transport aircraft, demonstrating a new rapid-insertion capability for maritime force projection. Over a series of trials, a Project Beehive specification K3 SCOUT USV was deployed […]

Defence Tech’s Venture Capital Moment: Opportunities, Risks and the New Funding Landscape

Open-source intelligence, or OSINT, is a type of structured and enriched data that can help homeland security investigators uncover answers with speed and precision. Learn about OSINT types, tools, and methods to leverage in investigations.

For all the modern innovation in venture capital, history often repeats itself. The First and Second World Wars led to unprecedented public investment in industrial capability and advanced manufacturing, which later found widespread commercial application. Similarly, the Cold War drove sustained investment in semiconductors, satellite communications, and GPS. There is a clear pattern that is […]

UK companies could do more to strengthen critical supply chains, report finds

AtkinsRéalis has been selected by Babcock International for its Global Engineering Services Framework, securing a five-year agreement that significantly extends a partnership of more than 15 years and moves the relationship well beyond its established foundations in defence infrastructure and nuclear-licensed facilities.

UK companies can play a bigger role in strengthening the nation’s critical supply chains, but barriers including procurement complexity, limited visibility of opportunities and buyer engagement prevent many from doing more, finds survey. The findings from the new UK Supply Report by the Critical Supply Group (CSG) show that almost three-quarters of the surveyed UK […]