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The Dutch Ministry of Defence has ordered containerised towed-array systems that can be rapidly deployed onto a wide variety of surface vessels, giving the Dutch Navy a way to add anti-submarine sensing to ships not originally designed to carry it.
Twenty-two companies, including British small and medium-sized enterprises, are to receive contracts to carry out feasibility studies on sites for new UK factories producing materials used in munitions.
Royal Fleet Auxiliary personnel, who support Royal Navy operations around the world, are to receive an above-inflationary pay rise and improved conditions.
The government has established the first frameworks under an eight-year open scheme for military-grade tactical communications, worth around £8bn across three lots and admitting close to 100 suppliers.
Police Scotland has asked drone operators not to fly over the Cairngorms wildfire area, warning that unmanned aircraft could interfere with the helicopter water-bombing operation.
Babcock will be the key sponsor of the inaugural Hampshire Air Festival at Thruxton Aerodrome in September, bringing its aerospace and training links, including the RAF Tutor Display Team, to the event.
BAE Systems has partnered with the New Model Institute for Technology and Engineering to launch an MSc in radio frequency and wireless systems engineering, aimed at a specialist skills shortage.
Scotland's justice secretary had already been told the RAF had no waterbombing helicopters in the UK to send, but he asked anyway and then made a point of the refusal, which is not how military aid between two governments is supposed to work.
The Ministry of Defence has set out how it intends to strengthen domestic steel supply chains in support of the Defence Industrial Strategy, in response to a parliamentary question.
As part of a UK Defence Journal series looking at how Scottish public sector organisations support staff with links to the Armed Forces, the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service is the latest body to come under examination.
