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US Air Force and local Alabama officials joined Lockheed Martin executives to break ground on the company’s new strike systems production facility in Troy. The planned 225,000-square-foot facility, combined with the current cruise missile production factory, will provide the necessary space to meet the US Air Force’s objectives. Building construction is slated for completion in 2021 with Joint […]

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An SME in Devon has won a contract with DASA to provide lightweight bridging equipment to Royal Engineers.

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Researcher groups from the US military are advancing 3D Printing for use in Naval shipyards in Keyport, Washington.

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New training simulator ‘Gladiator’ will allow RAF personnel and US aircrew to prepare for numerous exercises and challenges.

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Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt has praised the UK shipbuilding industry during a speech at the 2019 Sea Power Conference.

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Representatives from ASEAN member states met with FCO ministers to forge trade and defence ties with the UK.

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Naval Service specialists met with Kenyan Forces to provide training on tackling issues such as illegal fishing, piracy, and the drugs trade.

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Innovate UK has launched a competition for £150million in funding for new aerospace designs to support the UK industry.

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President Trump has declared a national emergency to ban technology from “foreign adversaries”. The executive order block transactions that involve information or communications technology that represent “an unacceptable risk to the national security of the United States.” The move is believed to target Chinese technology firm Huawei Technologies, which has come under intense scrutiny in […]

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Around 10,000 US military personnel are participating in exercise Northern Edge 2019 (NE19), a joint training exercise hosted by US Pacific Air Forces, on and above central Alaska ranges and the Gulf of Alaska, May 13-24. NE19 is one in a series of US Indo-Pacific Command exercises in 2019 that prepares joint forces to respond to crises in […]

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The Rt. Hon. Mark Lancaster TD MP has visited the RAF in Estonia to assess the NATO air policing mission in the Baltic.

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The open-source software framework titled Stone Soup will help develop tracking technology through model outcomes and simulators.

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