13 March 2026
Increased lethality for the British Army has moved a step closer after a £53 million contract was awarded by OCCAR on behalf of the British Army to ARTEC GmbH for the long-lead production of 37 weapon systems for the Remote Controlled Howitzer (RCH) 155.
13 March 2026
During this week's Security & Policing event - delivered by ADS on behalf of the Home Office’s Joint Security and Resilience Centre (JSaRC) at the Farnborough International Exhibition and Conference Centre - ADS released its Security & Resilience Outlook 2026, which highlights the sector’s three core priorities of protecting critical national ...
13 March 2026
Manchester based provider of traditional and digital signage solutions, Astra Group, has completed on a seven-figure wayfinding contract for Manchester Airport.
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13 March 2026
Researchers at Cranfield University have created WANDER-bot, a low-cost, 3D-printed robot that is powered by wind energy.
12 March 2026
Orbit Fab are working with Airbus Defence and Space to assess the feasibility of incorporating Orbit Fab’s RAFTI refuelling valve into possible future Airbus geostationary satellites, as part of a project within the European Space Agency’s programme of Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems, named RADICAL, funded by the UK Space ...
12 March 2026
BAE Systems has completed the Preliminary Design Review for the $1.2 billion US Space Force (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC) Resilient Missile Warning & Tracking (RMWT) – Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) Epoch 2 programme to provide missile warning and tracking of advanced missile threats.
12 March 2026
As the Vera C. Rubin Observatory issues live alerts of changes in the night sky, a UK innovation allows us to observe millions of unfolding astronomical events.
12 March 2026
Amentum, GXO, Accenture and Maersk have entered into an alliance to support the next generation of supply chain solutions to the UK Defence Sector, called Torus Defence Supply Chain.
12 March 2026
Dr Noelia Noël, Senior Lecturer in Astrophysics at the University of Surrey, has been awarded this year’s Leadership Fellowship in Public Engagement from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC).
4 March 2026
In the latest edition of Advance magazine, Kata Escott, UK Managing Director and Head of Country, Airbus Defence and Space - and ADS Vice President for Space - talked with Steve Nichols about how important Space has become for the UK, not just from a commercial or scientific perspective but also as a domain for defence.
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.
