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  • Autumn budget 2017 predictions – what to look out for?

    • 9 Nov 2017

    On 22nd November 2017 Philip Hammond will present the Autumn Budget, his second major fiscal event of the year. With Brexit on the horizon, The Chancellor has some tough decisions to make

  • Gavin Williamson replaces disgraced Sir Michael Fallon as defence secretary

    • 3 Nov 2017

    Chief whip Gavin Williamson has been appointed defence secretary after Sir Michael Fallon quit the position following allegations of sexual harassment.

  • Police and MI5’s counter-terrorism operations to undergo major shake-up

    • 2 Nov 2017

    The police and MI5 are to undertake the most radical rethink of their counter-terrorism operations since the 7/7 London bombings in 2005, the Evening Standard reports.

  • Michael Fallon quits as defence secretary amid sexual harassment claims

    • 2 Nov 2017

    Sir Michael Fallon has resigned as defence secretary in light of historic sexual harassment allegations.

  • New £90m helicopter simulation centre coming to RAF Benson

    • 30 Oct 2017

    A new world-leading helicopter simulation centre worth £90 million will help train the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy helicopter pilots of the future.

  • More Isis fighters have returned to UK than any other country in Europe

    • 30 Oct 2017

    More Islamic State fighters have returned to the UK than any other country in the West, according to MI6’s former director of global counterterrorism.

  • MI5 boss: Terrorism is quicker and harder to detect than ever

    • 19 Oct 2017

    The UK is facing its most severe ever terrorist threat and new attacks are inevitable. That’s the view of MI5 director general Andrew Parker.

  • Armed Forces Covenant and Veterans Board schedules first meeting

    • 17 Oct 2017

    A new cross-government Armed Forces Covenant and Veterans Board will meet for the first time on October 26th.

  • BAE Systems targets Australian students for future projects

    • 17 Oct 2017

    BAE Systems is appealing to Australia’s university students to consider a future career in the defence industry.

  • Mental health of Armed Forces set to benefit from new Prince Harry initiative

    • 16 Oct 2017

    A new initiative to improve the mental health of current and former Armed Forces personnel has been launched jointly by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and the Royal Foundation of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry.

  • BAE Systems proposes 1,915 redundancies in light of Eurofighter order gap

    • 16 Oct 2017

    BAE Systems is set to cut almost 2,000 jobs from its UK workforce.

  • Locky bolts back big time in September

    • 16 Oct 2017

    September saw the Locky ransomware return on a massive scale, according to Check Point Software’s monthly malware report.

  • MI5’s Belfast HQ is ten

    • 10 Oct 2017

    October 2017 marks ten years since the opening of MI5’s headquarters in Palace Barracks, just outside Belfast in Northern Ireland.

  • Autonomous vessels set to dominate maritime within next decade

    • 28 Sep 2017

    Underwater vessels that can pilot themselves will come to dominate maritime activity over the next ten years, according to a report from QinetiQ on the future of autonomous maritime systems.

  • RFA ship helps save three people in the Caribbean

    • 25 Sep 2017

    The crew of Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) Mounts Bay has been praised for its role in saving three people during a search and rescue operation in the Caribbean.

  • Facebook: “We can do more in fighting online extremism”

    • 22 Sep 2017

    Facebook has accepted Theresa May’s claims that technology companies could do more to fight online extremism.

  • GCHQ’s first leader recognised in new biography

    • 20 Sep 2017

    A new biography about the first head of GCHQ has been published.

  • UK biggest audience in Europe for online jihadist content

    • 20 Sep 2017

    Concerns over possible further homegrown terrorists have surfaced after it emerged that online jihadist propaganda attracts more clicks in the UK than in any other European country.

  • Sir Stuart Peach to become NATO chairman of the military committee from June 2018

    • 19 Sep 2017

    UK chief of defence staff (CDS) air chief marshal Sir Stuart Peach has been elected as the new NATO chairman of the military committee, after a lengthy election campaign.

  • New £55m bomb disposal robots will be in service by 2021

    • 19 Sep 2017

    A contract worth up to £55 million for innovative bomb disposal robots has been approved by the Ministry of Defence.