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RAeS reveals 2025 award winners

Aerospace Events

RAeS reveals 2025 award winners

28 November 2025

The Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) has revealed the 2025 winners of the global aerospace community’s most prestigious and long-standing awards honouring achievement and innovation.

QinetiQ Powerboat Challenge 2025 tests students skills

Aerospace Events

QinetiQ Powerboat Challenge 2025 tests students skills

28 November 2025

QinetiQ’s annual Schools Powerboat Challenge has put students’ engineering and piloting skills to the test.

Kilmarnock Academy win 10th annual RTX Quadcopter Challenge 2025

Aerospace Events

Kilmarnock Academy win 10th annual RTX Quadcopter Challenge 2025

28 November 2025

A group of students from Kilmarnock Academy in Prestwick have been crowned champions of the 2025 RTX Quadcopter Challenge, held at London’s historic Honourable Artillery Company.

CAA issues Black Friday holiday fraud warning

Aerospace Security

CAA issues Black Friday holiday fraud warning

28 November 2025

The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is urging holidaymakers to act before booking travel deals during the Black Friday weekend and on Travel Tuesday – a growing online travel sales event, after £11 million was lost to holiday fraud in 2024.

BAE Systems to produce additional Bradley A4s for US Army

Defence

BAE Systems to produce additional Bradley A4s for US Army

27 November 2025

The US Army and BAE Systems have definitised a contract modification worth over $390 million to upgrade additional Bradley A4 Fighting Vehicles.

Cranfield University opens new power and propulsion labs

Aerospace

Cranfield University opens new power and propulsion labs

27 November 2025

A new test cell facility at Cranfield University’s campus, developed as part of the Cranfield Hydrogen Integration Incubator (CH2i) project, has been officially opened.

OSL Technology acquired by Terma

Aerospace Security

OSL Technology acquired by Terma

27 November 2025

Terma A/S has completed the acquisition of UK-based provider of counter drone security and safety systems, OSL Technology (OSL).

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Tekever secures EMSA agreement for AR5 UAS deployment

Aerospace Security

Tekever secures EMSA agreement for AR5 UAS deployment

27 November 2025

Tekever has secured a new framework contract valued at €30 million with the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) to provide Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) for maritime operations.

UK space weather probes capture solar radiation spike

Space

UK space weather probes capture solar radiation spike

27 November 2025

New balloon-mounted space radiation probes developed by the Surrey Space Centre at the University of Surrey have captured their first measurements of a major solar storm, confirming the research team’s model, which indicates the flare caused the highest levels of radiation at aviation altitude in almost two decades.

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Leading with integrity in defence AI

Features

Leading with integrity in defence AI

17 November 2025

As AI systems become embedded in defence infrastructure, Emma Du Parcq, Head of Consulting, Research and Thought Leadership at Roffey Park Institute looks beyond the technical challenge to the ethical and cultural implications.

Evolving aviation weather intelligence: The Met Office

Focus

Evolving aviation weather intelligence: The Met Office's new MAVIS platform

27 November 2025

How trusted and accurate weather data is modernising aviation visualisations.

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Defence Security

DASA opens Cycle 5 of Defence Innovation Loans

29 October 2025

The UKDI-Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA), supported by Innovate UK Loans Ltd (Innovate UK), has opened Cycle 5 of Defence Innovation Loans with enhanced support for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) developing defence solutions.

Security

UK experiencing four 'nationally significant' cyber attacks every week

14 October 2025

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has handled an average of four ‘nationally significant’ cyber attacks every week in the year to September.

Space

University of Surrey launches Space Institute

16 July 2025

With the UK's £19 billion space economy surging, government and industry urgently need faster research, innovation and skilled talent – yet more than half of space organisations report critical shortages, a challenge now being tackled by the newly launched Surrey Space Institute at the University of Surrey.

Defence Security

Dstl trials underwater robot

11 June 2025

The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) has trialled an underwater robot which can prevent adversaries from sabotaging undersea cables and pipelines by disarming or removing threats.

Defence

UK Armed Forces to benefit from underwater glue

20 May 2025

An underwater glue that enables rapid repairs to equipment in extreme environments, developed by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) and biotech firm Zentraxa, could soon be saving lives and providing UK Armed Forces with an operational edge following successful trials in Portsmouth.

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