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| February 2010 |
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ROGER MEDWELL OF NP AEROSPACE NAMED BATTLESPACE BUSINESSMAN OF THE YEAR 2009
Tucked away on a street in the centre of Coventry, is a world-beating advanced composite armour facility - NP Aerospace Ltd. The Company reached its 80th Birthday in 2006. The NP team founded in 1926 is one of the oldest technical moulding operations in the world. NP currently manufacturers ultra lightweight, ballistic protective, x-ray transparent and stealth composite structures.
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NEWS IN BRIEF
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U.K. Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth announced big changes to the U.K. Defence Budget today. He started with the announcement of a big order for Chinook helicopters. The MoD has today announced plans to re-prioritise spending to help achieve success in Afghanistan ‘the top military priority’ and balance the books.
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Against a background of milestones, continuing accomplishments, and changes within the JTRS program, government and industry planners are working to balance immediate warfighter communications needs with near term networking capabilities. While a myriad companies used the October Association of the U.S. Army (AUSA) annual meeting to highlight their own recent achievements and capabilities in this finely balanced arena, some excellent representative examples of these ongoing activities were found at Boeing, Harris, and ITT.
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India’s defence research agency, DRDO is to award contracts worth over $1.5 billion to various private sector and state-owned defence companies to develop sub systems for advanced long range radars with a range of over 700 kilometers. DRDO is also working on designing radars with a range of over 1000 kilometers.
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The Tories ambushed Gordon Brown by luring his favourite efficiency guru to work for them. Sir Peter Gershon, the business chief who wrote the Prime Minister's 2004 review to identify Whitehall waste, will join a Conservative advisory board. The chairman of Tate and Lyle was the first chief executive of the Office of Government Commerce and spent 30 years in industry, including at the helm of British Aerospace.
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BY OXLEY GROUP PLC www.oxleygroup.com The lighting requirements, as for every other technical requirement, derive from the Operational Requirements of the Mission or the Theatre of Operations.
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SPONSORED BY MILLBROOK
www.millbrook.co.uk
Millbrook, based in Bedfordshire, UK, makes a significant contribution to the quality and performance of military vehicles worldwide. Its specialist expertise is focussed in two distinct areas: test programmes to help armed services and their suppliers ensure that their vehicles and systems work as the specification requires; and design and build work to upgrade new or existing vehicles, evaluate vehicle capability and investigate in-service failures. Complementing these is driver and service training and a hospitality business that allows customers to use selected areas of Millbrook’s remarkable facilities for demonstrations and exhibitions.
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