17 March 2026
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has released its Long Term Demand Projections (LTDP) for air travel, showing that global air passenger demand is expected to more than double by 2050.
17 March 2026
BAE Systems has been awarded a contract by Robins Air Force Base in Georgia to support and sustain the AN/ALQ-221 Advanced Defensive System (ADS) for the US Air Force (USAF) U-2 Dragon Lady surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft.
17 March 2026
Investment in Scotland's defence industry has directly supported £1.1 billion in inward investment with defence firm Thales, securing export deals whilst creating and sustaining over 500 jobs.
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17 March 2026
DE&S CEO Lieutenant General Simon Hamilton will be the British Army’s next Deputy Chief of the General Staff (DCGS)
17 March 2026
Viasat today announced that its advanced in-flight connectivity has been selected by charter operator National Airlines to enhance the passenger experience onboard a new fleet of three Airbus A330 aircraft.
17 March 2026
International cyber security chiefs will convene next month at the Scottish Event Campus (SEC), Clydeside, Glasgow, for the UK’s flagship cyber conference, CYBERUK (21st-23rd April), to discuss accelerating defences in the face of rising online threats.
17 March 2026
Manufacturer of connector systems, ODU, has joined the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), the world’s largest sustainability and corporate responsibility initiative.
17 March 2026
Thales and Faculty have published a new white paper on synthetic data assurance for Defence AI, setting out why synthetic data is increasingly being used when real operational data is scarce, sensitive, or difficult to share and why 'looks realistic' is not a reliable basis for trust.
16 March 2026
Atlas Air Worldwide has placed a landmark firm order for 20 Airbus A350F freighters, which is the largest ever placed for the A350F and makes Atlas the biggest customer of the type.
16 March 2026
Simon Clark, visiting lecturer at the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering and founder and CEO of Julius & Clark, examines the transformation taking place within aerospace and defence manufacturing and the factory of the future.
23 February 2026
Across skies, seas and battlefields, a new kind of formation is emerging: one made not of pilots and platoons but of intelligent machines acting in perfect coordination. Autonomous swarms are redefining how nations project power, defend assets and respond to threats in real time, creating urgency to develop autonomous systems that can think, ...
Videos
9 March 2026
At the UK Civil Aviation Authority’s Future of Flight Day, David Walters, Head of Futures and Innovation, National Police Air Service (NPAS), shared the latest progress in NPAS’s Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) development programme and showcased a recent multiagency search and rescue demonstration.
25 February 2026
The National Armaments Director (NAD) Group has awarded the third and final major contract within the Business Modernisation for Support (BMfS) programme, towards delivery of defence support transformation.
24 February 2026
The Metropolitan Police Service has cut mobile phone theft offences in London by 10,000 in the past year following its largest ever crackdown on phone thieves.
4 February 2026
The National Crime Agency (NCA) and NatWest Group have launched a joint campaign aimed at accounts payable professionals and finance personnel that highlights the risks of Invoice Fraud, a crime that costs businesses millions each year.
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.
