The Royal Air Force Signed A Contract For Its First Loyal Wingman Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
The Royal Air Force Signed A Contract For Its First Loyal Wingman Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
A newly released rendering of the Project Mosquito Loyal Wingman technology demonstrator flying alongside the F-35B. (Photo: Royal Air Force/UK MoD)
Project Mosquito will be the technology demonstrator of an armed UAV that could fly as a Loyal Wingman alongside the Typhoon and F-35 before the end of the decade.
The United Kingdom signed a £30 million three-year contract to design and manufacture a prototype of the first “Loyal Wingman” Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) for the Royal Air Force. The company that was awarded the contract is Spirit AeroSystems, based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and is set to take the lead of “Team Mosquito”, as the technology demonstrator project team has been called.
Hargreaves Lansdown has also donated Chromebooks for vulnerable and disadvantaged students to use.
- Credit: Lighthouse Schools Partnership
Almost 500 computers have been given to schools from local organisations to support pupils who are struggling to access remote learning from home.
Children across the Lighthouse Schools Partnership, which has 24 schools in North Somerset and Bath and North East Somerset, are currently studying from home due to the third national lockdown. However, the learning trust says some families are struggling to fully access online remote teaching and classwork due to a lack of appropriate technology at home.
Chief executive of the partnership, Gary Lewis, said: “Our schools have worked incredibly hard to adapt their curriculum and embrace technology to teach our pupils remotely this term. These additional devices will allow a large number of our children to keep up with their studies and progress.
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Fragile and ageing legacy systems need to be replaced – now
Lindsay Clark Fri 11 Dec 2020 // 15:15 UTC Share
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The UK s Ministry of Defence has awarded Boeing Defence UK a £500m contract without external competition to replace fragile and ageing legacy systems it had already been charged with swapping out as part of a 2010 contract.
Any lack of availability would fundamentally impact the UK Armed Forces ability to operate effectively around the globe, according to a tender notice published today.
The extension with Boeing relates to the Future Logistics Information Services (FLIS) project, an £800m contract set out by the government in 2010 to deliver an operationally essential logistics information system.