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12 Jul 17. 550 UK jobs sustained by Type 26 Global Combat Ship contract awards. BAE Systems has awarded manufacturing equipment contracts to a further 14 companies for the Type 26 Global Combat Ship, helping to support around 550 jobs across the UK maritime industry and bringing the total investment in the supply chain to more than £500m. The largest of the new contracts are for the procurement of structural steel for the first three ships from UK and European steel mills by Dent Steel Services Ltd from its Bradford, UK facility, and sonar components critical to the ship’s anti-submarine warfare role, which are to be manufactured by Thales in Cheadle and Tods Defence from their Portland, UK facility. The 14 companies awarded contracts are as follows
Company Equipment Manufacture Location
AGI Helicopter visual landing aids Poole, UK
Babcock Helicopter landing grid Bristol, UK
Cathelco Hull preservation system Chesterfield, UK
DCNS Shaftline system Nantes, France
Dent SS Structural steel sourcing Bradford, UK
DESMI Hot fresh water module Norresundby, Denmark
EWB Cold and cool rooms Paddock Wood, UK
JP Sauer High pressure compressors Kiel, Germany
MSI Small calibre gun Norwich, UK
MacTaggart Mission bay side doors Gdansk, Poland
Renold Flexible drive shaft couplings Cardiff, UK
Rohde & Schwarz MMRD Teisnach, Germany
Thales Towed array system Cheadle, UK
Tods Defence Sonar domes Portland, UK
BAE Systems’ Maritime Services was also awarded the contract for manufacturing the Artisan Radar 997, for Type 26, assembly of which will take place in Cowes, UK.
A total of 34 companies across the maritime supply chain are working directly with BAE Systems to deliver the Type 26 ships, with many more through the supply chain.
Geoff Searle, BAE Systems, Programme Director for Type 26 Global Combat Ship, said: “Today’s announcement demonstrates that the Type 26 Global Combat Ship is truly an industry-wide effort drawing on the skills and dedication of many hundreds of people spread across the supply chain in the UK, Europe and beyond. We are now in the final stages of preparation to start manufacture of the Royal Navy’s first Type 26 Global Combat Ship in the coming weeks.”
“Tods Defence is honoured to have been selected to design and manufacture the composite bow sonar domes, a highly sophisticated acoustically tuned part of the sonar system,” said Pete Eckersall, Vice President and Managing Director of Tods Defence. “Our team has spent many years honing the talent and expertise required to produce such a critical component and we are privileged to have the opportunity to be a part of this prestigious programme.”
12 Jul 17. Specialist Document Publication
B2B Quote Ref no: B2B532150
Location: London
Register Interest Deadline: Wednesday, August 09, 2017
Submit Documents Deadline: Wednesday, August 09, 2017
Publication & distribution of permanent unclassified information concerning any aeronautical facility, service, procedure or hazard directly concerned with the operation & safety of aircraft. Potential Providers must be BSI EN ISO 9001.
(Source: B2B.com)
12 Jul 17. Radio Frequency Defensive Aid Suite Chinook Sky Guardian 200 Digital Radar Warning Receiver Integration. – VEAT Contract Award
B2B Quote Contract Award Ref no: B2B531654
Location: South West
Radio Frequency Defensive Aid Suite Chinook Sky Guardian 200 Digital Radar Warning Receiver Integration. – VEAT Contract Award
(Source: B2B.com)
11 Jul 17. United Kingdom-Bristol: Installation services of radio equipment
2017/S 120-244060
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