Aerospace & Defence

GKN Aerospace has signed a follow-on Performance Based Logistics (PBL) contract with the Swedish Armed Forces for the provision of comprehensive support for the GKN Aerospace RM12 engine. The RM12 engine powers the JAS 39 Gripen C/D fighter. This contract follows a series of multi-year RM12 PBL agreements and is expected to be worth approximately $440m.

Following a competitive tendering process, Nottingham-based manufacturer and supplier of high quality filtration solutions for oils and process fluids, Filtertechnik has secured a major contract with Meggitt PLC, valued at over £500,000, to design and manufacture highly complex rigs for testing and certifying heat exchangers for the Aerospace sector.

Airpeeder, the electric flying craft racing series is inviting elite pilots from across the globe to take part in the upcoming first GP season. Airspeeder and Alauda Founder, Matt Pearson made the call to pilots from civil, military, motorsport, UAV and even esports backgrounds at the Agility Prime virtual event.

Kongsberg Digital has acquired COACH Solutions, a supplier of software solutions for vessel performance and monitoring. The new name will be KONGSBERG COACH Solutions.

Spectra Group is emerging from the COVID-19 lockdown restrictions confident that their business continuity plans have withstood the considerable challenges faced by the company. Over the last four months, Spectra Group has achieved 100% of  their sales forecast whilst remaining fully compliant with all Government Guidelines and restrictions.

The US Army has announced that GM Defense, along with Ricardo as its strategic partner, has been awarded a $214.3m production contract to build, field, and sustain the Army’s new Infantry Squad Vehicle (ISV). The ISV is designed to provide rapid ground mobility transportation in a highly flexible, light, all-terrain, air-droppable vehicle intended for use by a nine-solider infantry squad moving within 'close battle areas'.

Frost & Sullivan’s recent study, Analysis of the Global Airline IT Market, Forecast to 2025, has found that the increasing expectations of passengers are compelling airlines to embrace digital enablers and propelling a digital transformation journey that will fundamentally change traditional airline information technology (IT) strategies towards incorporating AI, machine learning and Blockchain.

What will the aerospace industry look like going forward? The skies are eerily silent, as flights are restricted, the aerospace industry is seeing its worst-ever global decline due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As the industry resets to a ‘new normal’, there will be a continuing push for driving costs down and providing a greener operation. I have been considering how maxon meets the challenge. Andrew Gibson, Aerospace Sales Engineer, max...

Unite, the UK’s leading union, is urging the Government to commit to invest in the UK space programme in the interests of national security and to ensure that thousands of highly skilled jobs are not put at further risk.

Over the past two decades, satellite-based positioning has become an indispensable, every-day technology that we constantly rely on - often even without being aware of it. With the relentless expansion of applications and use cases, driven largely by falling cost of ownership and improvements in positioning accuracy, there will soon be one GNSS receiver in operation for every person on the planet.