News Items

Please find below news items from our many members and Industry relevant press releases. If you would like to disseminate your news, please contact us.

Interface - FAC's Magazine

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Member News

Waviatech - Thursday, March 04, 2010

Waviatech and easyJet sign 5 year contract

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QinetiQ - Tuesday, January 12, 2010

QinetiQ New day or night camera, Tarsier, puts the eyes on Vancouver's runway?

Vancouver International Airport (YVR) is the first commercial airport in the world to install a day and night camera to its existing Tarsier Foreign Object Debris (FOD) radar detection system. The new camera will upgrade YVR’s 24-hour automated runway debris detection system in all weather conditions by providing visual confirmation of any potentially dangerous objects on the runway.

To read the full report, please click here.

Relevant Papers:

Aero Strategy Globalization Commentary - click HERE

Aero Strategy Civil Aerospace Commentary - click HERE

White Paper on Keeping control of your External IT Service Providers - click HERE

New European Aerospace Park and Cluster

The Southern Group Business Advisors (SGBA) are working in conjunction with Vaucluse Developpement, and actively promoting the investment in a new Aerospace Park, based alongside Avignon Airport. Ideally located to serve France, Italy, Spain and Switzerland the park will become the third largest Aerospace hub in France, after Toulouse and Paris. The region has the 2nd highest GDP per capita in France (after Paris), and France ranks 3rd worldwide in terms of hourly productivity (behind Norway and the US), well ahead of Great Britain and Germany. Source : BIT 2007

Active Clusters include Pole Pegase. The region has 75,000 employees in Aerospace working for 8 industry leading companies and SME's, all supported by Academia and 31 R&D test centres.

Companies wishing to develop European business that would like to hear more about the project, and how they can benefit from the opportunity and incentives, please contact Ian Thomas at SGBA. Try Ian Thomas or call 'Proactive' on 0870 787 7590.

Business Opportunities

We have a new call for proposals open to Britsh SMEs. This call is for the French division of a large European multi-national, leader in the defence sector. They are searching for SMEs active in the integration of human factors for weapons systems.

To read more please click here

If you with to get in touch with the instigating organisation please email kristiansen of Pacte PME

http://www.pactepme.org

Industry News

SBRI - Tuesday, January 05, 2010

SBRI - Small Business Research Initiative

This is a process that enables government bodies to connect with technology businesses,
finding innovative solutions to specific public sector challenges and needs.

To read the brochure, please click here.

Bank of England - Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Bank of England Agents Summary - December 2009

Please find attached a web link to the August Agents' Summary for your information

To read the Summary please click here.

Library - Wednesday, September 30, 2009

New National Aerospace Library

This facility has now been launced and is based at IQ Farnborough. Please click here to find out more.

UKTI Information

Advanced Engineering Contracts

UKTI Advanced Engineering Business Planning 2010/11. Please discuss your ideas for international trade and investment activities with our teams in Embassies and Consulates now.

Context

As discussed at the pre-AdESAB meeting in September, there are changes to UKTI's business planning process this year. UKTI sector teams have, following consultation, produced the attached guidance sheet showing strategic priorities for international trade and investment for the UK advanced engineering the sector. If you are proposing to organise international activities for the advanced engineering sector in the next financial year that support these priorities and want to have involvement and support from our teams overseas, in the Embassies and Consulates, or the Advanced Engineering Sector national team, based in the UK, you should get engaged in this business planning process now.

If your ideas are not specific to any market, or group of markets, or you simply want to run then past us in the national sector team please contact Neil on +44 (0)141 228 3614 who leads on aerospace, Ian on +44 (0)141 228 3654 for automotive, construction equipment and mining or Janet on +44 (0)141 228 3617 - she leads on the rest of engineering including manufacturing technologies etc. Please copy us all in if you are emailing and are unclear or the idea is cross cutting.

New Specification Document