MoD signs £250m contract with Team Tempest
The Ministry of Defence has signed a £250m contract with Britain’s industrial consortium ‘Team Tempest’ to drive forward the concept and assessment phase of the Future Combat Air System.
The Future Combat Air System, ‘Tempest’, plans to combine a core aircraft with a network of capabilities such as uncrewed aircraft and advanced data systems. Planned to enter service from the mid-2030s, the project is set to receive over £2bn worth of government spending over the next four years and is supported by the £24bn increase in defence spending announced by the prime minister last year.
This latest £250m contract will see investment in the digital and physical infrastructure on which the programme will be developed, aiming for reduced cost, time and emissions through a ‘digital first’ simulated design and testing process.
Now officially underway, the concept and assessment phase aims to define and begin to design the future combat air system, mature technologies, invest in the skilled workforce, secure tools to underpin digital engineering and software-based systems and enable major programme choices by 2024.
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