Saturday, 26 September 2026

The Ministry of Defence is investing £80 million in new world-class equipment to help train the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy helicopter pilots and rear crews of the future.

A £51 million contract with Lockheed Martin UK will support Chinook Mk 6 training and a £29 million contract has been awarded to AgustaWestland to provide Merlin Mk 4/4a aircrew Synthetic Training Devices. The simulators will be based at military bases in Somerset and Hampshire with the two contracts providing around 130 jobs, including for the construction of a new schoolhouse.

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New York: Options has announced the acquisition of Jake Roy Pillar LLC. Jake Roy Pillar, headquartered in New York, is a technology consultancy for the financial industry and primarily hedge funds. The financial terms of the deal, which closed in the second quarter of 2015, have not been disclosed but the acquisition will see the technology consultancy form an additional business unit within Options called Options Advisory.

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PHOENIX:  BeyondTrust's PowerBroker Windows v6.7 was awarded a silver medal in the “Identity Management” category for the 2015 Info Security Global Excellence Awards. Additionally, the company’s Retina CS Enterprise Vulnerability Management solution was named a bronze winner in the “Vulnerability Assessment, Remediation and Management” category. These prestigious global awards recognize security and IT vendors with advanced, ground-breaking products and solutions that are helping set the bar higher for others in all areas of security and technology.

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London, UK: Becrypt has announced the winners of its Becrypt Partner Awards. Now in its fourth year, the awards recognise the hard work, commitment and achievement of Becrypt’s strongest channel partners. The awards, which cover distribution, resellers, SaaS providers, and systems integrators, were presented by Becrypt CEO, Dr. Bernard Parsons at a drinks reception held at InfoSec on the opening day of the show.

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  1. Computacenter named F5 Agility EMEA Partner of the Year 2015
  2. Ipswitch sets standard for secure managed file transfer analytics and reporting
  3. UK government PCs open to hackers as paid Windows XP support ends
  4. Remote IT Network Monitoring and Automated Management saves 75 percent in trouble shooting and 32 percent in repair time
  5. CloudTrade joins forces with Palette to strengthen E-invoicing solution
  6. Skyscape Cloud Services in Strategic partnership with DeepSecure
  7. Protection is key to the leisure industry
  8. Nuix launches investigative suite for business
  9. Krux awarded Europe-wide data protection seal “ePrivacyseal”
  10. Crossword Cybersecurity signs its first license agreement
  11. BSIA appoints Steve Lampett as Technical Officer
  12. Peace blooms: Cattle, conflict and the roses of Lake Naivasha
  13. Harry goes to Bastion
  14. Deriving security insight from analytics and video
  15. Saxo Bank selects A10 Networks Thunder ADC



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