Digital engineering

BAE Systems has been selected to supply 12 Bofors 40 Mk4 naval guns to the Belgian and Dutch navies as part of the Mine Counter Measures Vessels (MCMV) program.

BAE Systems has been awarded a contract by Fleetway Inc. to deliver a range of digital solutions for on-shore support of Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) vessels.

BAE Systems has successfully completed planned systems maintenance and repair on HMCS Toronto, a Royal Canadian Navy ship, allowing the vessel to return to sea. The work was undertaken at the home of the Royal Navy at Portsmouth Naval Base, UK.

BAE Systems’ Type 26 Global Combat Ship has been chosen as the design for the Canadian Surface Combatant (CSC), with the contract awarded today to Lockheed Martin Canada by Irving Shipbuilding. Irving Shipbuilding is the Canadian Surface Combatant Prime Contractor to the Canadian Government for the build  of all 15 ships at its Halifax Shipyard.

BAE Systems Australia welcomed today’s announcement by Minister for Defence Industry Christopher Pyne to award a five year contract worth $70m for the sustainment of the three Hobart Class Air Warfare Destroyers as they are delivered and transitioned into service.

BAE Systems has awarded further manufacturing equipment contracts to six companies for the Type 26 Global Combat Ship, bringing the total investment to date in the Type 26 supply chain to more than £380m.

BAE Systems has confirmed that the first steel will be cut on the Royal Navy’s Type 26 Global Combat Ships in Glasgow in summer 2017, subject to final contract negotiations with the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD).

Technology developed and funded by BAE Systems is set to transform the future of warship support by flagging potential faults in real time.

BAE Systems has awarded an equipment contract to Rolls-Royce to manufacture diesel generators for the first three Type 26 anti-submarine warfare ships for the Royal Navy.