January's top ten engineering contract wins

It’s not only environmentally oriented businesses that have seen success. Defence firm BAE Systems was awarded a seven-year, £47m contract by the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) to provide support for the Combat Management System (CMS) on the Royal Navy’s Type 23 frigates and Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) Argus.

The CMS assists a ship’s command in detecting and countering threats to the ship and any surrounding forces by managing all relevant external and internal information provided by the ship’s radars. This contract is part of a larger initiative entitled the Joint Support Solution (JSS) contract, which integrates the Type 45 support contract, awarded to BAE Systems in September 2009. 

Hoping to secure further valuable orders, BAE also submitted a proposal to the US Army for a Ground Combat Vehicle (GCV) that, according to the Northrop Grumman team behind the proposal, emphasises affordability, performance and future scalability. It will be the first combat vehicle designed from the ground-up to meet the current IED-threat environment and is said to be scalable to the level of protection required for a variety of operations.