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Rolls-Royce and Air China enter Beijing MRO joint venture

Rolls-Royce and Air China are entering into a new 50/50 Joint Venture (JV) maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facility in Beijing, China. Image ...

Menzies Aviation wins first LATAM Airlines engineering contract in Australia

Menzies Aviation has secured its first engineering contract in Australia with long term customer, LATAM Airlines. Image courtesy Menzies Aviation ...

SSTL to work with Space Norway on radar satellite for real time maritime surveillance

Space Norway AS has recently signed contracts - including with UK based Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) - to immediately begin the process of b...

Serco acquires ORS

Serco has acquired ORS, a specialist provider of immigration services to public sector customers in Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Italy. Image c...

DASA launches Disruptive Science and Technology Impacting the Future of Defence competition

The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) has launched a new Themed Competition, Disruptive Science and Technology Impacting the Future of Defence, ...

SkyWall deployed to protect G7 summit

As leaders from around the world visited the G7 meeting in Germany, SkyWall Auto Response was deployed as part of the security architecture and protec...

Flybe to introduce daily Glasgow-Southampton service in 2023

Flybe has announced plans to introduce a daily service between Glasgow and Southampton next year. Image by Bradley Caslin / copyright Shutterstock ...

EWS announced as partner to deliver £41m project to provide digital protection to bomb disposal troops

Strategic consultancy EWS Ltd. has been announced as a top table partner and operational advisor on Team Endure to deliver the £41m Asparkle project. Under Team Endure, a team of small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) being led by Leonardo, have been tasked to equip British Army personnel with digital protection against remotely triggered bombs.

EWS appoints Phil Hunt as Managing Director

Strategic consultancy EWS Ltd. based in Long Bennington, Lincolnshire has appointed Phil Hunt as Managing Director to help drive the continuing success of the business.

SeeByte selected to develop future crewed-uncrewed teaming concept to increase trust in autonomous systems

UK donating undersea minehunter drones to help Ukraine clear coastline

The UK is giving underwater drones to Ukraine and training Ukrainian personnel in Britain to use them to clear their coastline of mines. Images cour...

CHAMP Technologies advances Ethiopian Airlines' customer functionalities

Ethiopian Airlines, a CHAMP customer for 30 years, has extended its partnership agreement with the cargo IT solutions provider for an additional five ...

Bii.aero to manage Virgin Atlantic's surplus aircraft parts

Virgin Atlantic has appointed Bii.aero to oversee the consignment and storage process of its large surplus inventory of B747-400, A340-600 and A330-20...

BAE Systems awarded US Navy $42.6m NTCDL systems contract

The US Navy has awarded BAE Systems a $42.6 million contract for production of seven Network Tactical Common Data Link (NTCDL) systems. Image courte...

Innovative drone delivery trials completed at Milton Park

A pilot demonstration for a set of innovative drone and electric van freight trials was successfully completed at Milton Park, a science, technology a...