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  Abu Dhabi / WAM Atlas Elektronik UK, a leading provider of science and technology solutions to the UK Ministry of Defence, announced a major export contract award for its ARCIMS Remote Combined Influence Minesweeping System. The contract will see delivery of two ARCIMS vehicles, both operating ASW surveillance mission modules that can detect, classify and locate underwater threats and divert ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM DRS Technologies Inc. was awarded an Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quality contract, IDIQ, worth up to US$22 million by the US Navy for updated communications systems that allow ship commanders to securely share real-time tactical data. The initial five-year contract for the Link-11/Link-22 tactical data system is worth $9.3 million, with a second five-year option that could ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM Emirates Defense Industries Company (EDIC) an integrated national defence services and manufacturing platform, announced the establishment of Barij Munitions, specialising in providing world-class ammunition products and services. The company will be a manufacturer of all kinds of ammunition, including small arm, infantry, artillery and air-craft munitions. Announcing the formal launch of the company on the second ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business ADNOC Distribution announced on Monday the opening of a Vehicle Inspection Centre (VIC) for light vehicles within the Motor World service station located in the Al Shamkha area in Abu Dhabi. The opening ceremony was attended by Saeed Mubarak Al Rashdi, Acting Chief Executive Officer of ADNOC Distribution, Brigadier Ali Khalfan Al Dhaheri, Director-General ...

  Abu Dhabi / Emirates Business Etihad Airways Engineering signed an agreement with Kenya Airways to perform mandatory checks on its Boeing 787-8 fleet. This is part of an integration programme for the newest additions to the airline’s fleet. The first of six scheduled Boeing 787 C-checks begins this month, with the last one planned for October 2017. The airline ...

  Sharjah / Emirates Business The UK’s famous ‘Ministry of Science Live’ is coming to Sharjah with a brand new show and some bizarre new experiments to spread the word that physics is fantastic, chemistry is crazy and that every child has the chance to become a life-changing scientist. Under the theme ‘The world is one classroom’, many elements of ...

  Dubai / Emirates Business “Investing in knowledge is essential in our efforts to reach Mars and explore the universe,” asserted His Excellency Jamal bin Huwaireb, CEO of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation (MBRF) on the sidelines of the second workshop of the third annual Nobel Museum. MBRF – a member of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, and President Omar Hassan Al Bashir of Sudan, attended the unveiling of the ‘Rabdan’ ...

  ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE Central Bank announced that the money supply aggregate, M1 (currency in circulation outside banks and monetary deposits in current accounts and call accounts at banks), increased by 1.3 percent, from AED474 billion at the end of December 2016, to AED479.9 billion at the end of January, 2017. The money supply aggregate, M2 (M1 ...

  Abu Dhabi / WAM His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai and His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, on Sunday opened the thirteenth edition of the International Defence Exhibition and Conference (IDEX 2017) the ...