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The Royal Air Force (RAF) and the German Air Force has teamed up for their first-ever combined UK-German joint NATO Air Policing operation in Estonia.

Jeremy considers himself one of the lucky ones, having had support from colleagues to make his transition from defence to the civilian workforce seamless.

We sat down with Neil Appleton, Head of Electric Products to find out more about the Air Sector’s exploration and development of electric products. He notes, “Sustainability is becoming more and more a key focus for our business. Customers globally are declaring net zero targets and declaring a need for sustainable flight.”

Significant momentum for the platform-agnostic Fox Shield suite.

In the summer of 2020, Arham Haris chose to expand his horizon beyond the scope of commercial aviation due to the pandemic’s impact on the travel industry.

Hypersonic weapons are a real and growing threat, especially given their ability to carry both conventional and nuclear warheads, and their potential impact on high value naval assets. To better explore how we counter this threat, we have now added hypersonic weapon simulation to our naval wargaming modelling package.

Currently, maintenance analytics are often downloaded from an aircraft by USB stick or even burned to a CD, then sent to separate manufacturers to analyse - whether airframe, engine or sensor systems. This can add weeks or months to analysis, meaning that the information could arrive back with decision makers too late to take meaningful action. We have now demonstrated that an aircraft can transmit usage data as soon as it lands, so that those managing the fleet have instant access to the most relevant information and can take preventative action to prevent failures.

Sceptre is the next generation mission planning and debrief system which delivers a competitive edge for all operators in the battlespace. It provides operators with the latest information enabling airborne and ground environment operations with the highest situational awareness to achieve mission success. Sceptre is designed to support live and synthetic missions allowing an integrated approach to operational mission support, providing commanders with immediate and secure command and control, allowing timely influence over the battlespace. It supports the full mission planning cycle – plan, brief, rehearse, execute and debrief – and synchronises information from multiple platforms, for replay of the entire mission.

We are applying our expertise in military training with technology from a range of leading companies to develop next generation training for the forces of tomorrow. Project OdySSEy brings together experts in simulation, supercomputing, data analytics and augmented and virtual reality to create a single synthetic environment, enabling air, land, sea, space and cyber forces to plug in and train together.

Engineers making a difference branding and book cover image Free copies of an engineering showcase book featuring a BAE Systems engineer are to be sent to every state secondary school in the UK.

The diverse talent, skills and commitment of our people help us take on and solve some of our customers’ most complex and demanding challenges. At BAE Systems we want everyone to be themselves at work, because we know that’s when they’re at their best. Embrace is an important forum for discussion and change within our business.

Following a visit to our Warton site, The Times' George Grylls writes on the future of multi-domain simulated training.

On 6 May 2023, the Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla will take place at Westminster Abbey in London. To mark the occasion, we’ve been taking a look back through our archive at our connections with the King and Queen.

Over the past 20 years we’ve had a close partnership with Combat Stress and this year we became the first company to raise a total of £1m in funds for the charity and have been recognised with their inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award.