BAE Systems

The U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has selected 13 companies to compete for orders as part of its Luno B GEOINT programme. Basically, the government agency is acquiring unclassified, commercial GEOINT products, data, and services. This is to expand its own geospatial information. The companies involved are: Airbus U.S. Space & Defense, Inc. BAE Systems, Inc. Booz Allen Hamilton Holding ...

further trade restrictions on China, Pat Gelsinger leaving Intel,  modernising the U.S. Space Surveillance Network (SSN), BAE planning to recruit 2,400 people in the UK, and Microchip closing its Tempe wafer fab...

We're talking about BAE Systems recruiting for 2,400 jobs across the UK, Pat Gelsinger leaving Intel, and a space startup delivering cargo to precise locations on Earth...

BAE Systems is planning to recruit over 2,400 apprentices, undergraduates and graduates in 2025, “which will result in a record number of 6,500 in training, making up approximately 15% of its UK workforce”, it said, while anticipating to spend £230m on education and skills next year. “As the UK’s largest defence company, we rely on the skill and ingenuity of those ...

BAE Systems and GlobalFoundries are to align technology roadmaps and collaborate on long-term strategies for US  fabrication and packaging of secure chips for use in aerospace and defense systems. Together, the companies will plan  for emerging technologies and collaborate on R&D into packaging, GaN-on-Si, silicon photonics and process development. The non-exclusive collaboration brings together BAe’s expertise in microelectronics for critical ...

BAE Systems has been selected by NASA to build an atmospheric composition instrument (ACX) for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) future GeoXO constellation. The ACX is the second BAE Systems has been contracted to develop for the mission to support environmental monitoring. The instrument will help improve measurements of air quality, improve weather forecasts and help pilots ...

A consortium has demonstrated quantum-based inertial navigation in an aircraft, the first such demonstration to be made public, according to the UK Government’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT). By using quantum-based references in the accelerometers and gyros at the heart of an intertial measurement unit (IMU), it is theoretically possible to maintain absolute accuracy over time as an ...

BAE Systems has formally completed the acquisition of Ball Aerospace, the space and defence company, from Ball Corporation. The transaction closed at a purchase price of $5.5 billion (approximately £4.4 billion), which has been funded through existing cash and new external debt, said the company. Ball Aerospace will be called Space & Mission Systems and become a fourth operating sector ...

BAE Systems and the University of Portsmouth have jointly launched a degree apprenticeship in Space Systems Engineering. Apprentices will learn on-the-job critical skills at BAE Systems sites in Alton and Guildford, including System and Mission Analysis, Software Development, AOCS (Attitude and Orbit Control System) and Electronics. At the University of Portsmouth, the apprentices will undertake a Bachelor of Engineering in ...

For example, what caught David Manners' eye was that the first money handed out under the US Chips Act was to a UK company - BAe Systems...