Skilled workers at Solid Swivel – a family-run business in The Midlands established in 1910 – will forge and assemble some of Britain’s largest naval anchors in over 70 years, reviving manufacturing capability and ending reliance on imported anchors, following a contract award from Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S).
More than 400 schoolchildren and teachers from across Bristol and the South West unleashed their inner engineer this week when they got stuck into robotics and virtual reality welding as part of a two day STEM-athon run by Babcock International Group.
BAE Systems OneArc has been awarded a contract from the Italian Ministry of Defence to modernise the Italian Army’s virtual training ecosystem with VBS4, OneArc’s next-generation virtual training and mission rehearsal environment and Mantle, its high-fidelity terrain generation platform.
