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Business Wire
11-06-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Boyd Recognized with Silver Tier Partner 2 Win Award from BAE Systems
BOCA RATON, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Boyd, whose durable, high quality cooling technologies enable critical applications in aerospace and defense, today announced it received a Silver Tier Partner 2 Win Award from BAE Systems. Boyd was selected based on its exceptional performance and contributions to support supply chain success for BAE Systems' Electronic Systems sector in 2024. We are honored to receive recognition from BAE Systems. Boyd consistently demonstrates a commitment to the highest quality and delivery standards for customers, and this recognition validates our commitment to customer support and execution excellence. Share 'We are honored to receive this recognition from our valued customer, BAE Systems,' said Doug Britt, Boyd Chief Executive Officer. 'Boyd consistently demonstrates a commitment to the highest standards of quality and delivery on behalf of its customers. This recognition validates our commitment to customer support and execution excellence.' BAE Systems' Partner 2 Win program promotes operational excellence and eliminates inefficiencies in its supply chain by raising the bar of performance expectations. As part of the program, BAE Systems meets regularly with its suppliers to transfer best practices and ensure the components and materials that comprise its products meet the highest quality standards. 'I want to sincerely thank our winning suppliers for their exceptional support and groundbreaking solutions that have set new standards in our industry,' said Jennica Dearborn, Vice President of Operations, Electronic Systems at BAE. 'We look forward to our continued collaborations with Boyd that push the boundaries of what's possible.' Boyd aerospace and defense thermal technologies are deployed in flight, space exploration and global communications satellites with cooling solutions designed to operate in the most dynamic and demanding conditions known to mankind. These thermal technologies require fully optimized systems that need little to no maintenance, are durable to withstand environmental extremes, and are compact and lightweight to ensure maximum fuel efficiency and payload capacity. Boyd's thermal innovation helps customers deploy increasingly greater power density electronics and higher system performance levels. Boyd's scalable design and manufacturing capabilities under defense-grade quality management systems safely accelerate customer speed to deployment. About Boyd Boyd is the trusted global innovator of sustainable solutions that make our customers' products better, safer, faster, and more reliable. Our innovative engineered materials and thermal solutions advance our customers' technology to maximize performance in the world's most advanced data centers; enhance reliability and extend range for electric and autonomous vehicles; advance the accuracy of cutting-edge personal healthcare and diagnostic systems; enable performance-critical aircraft and security technologies; and accelerate innovation in next-generation electronics and human-machine-interface. Core to Boyd's global manufacturing is a deep commitment to protecting the environment with sustainable, scalable, lean, strategically located regional operations that reduce waste and minimize carbon footprint. We empower our employees, develop their potential, and inspire them to do the right things with integrity and accountability to champion our customers' success. About BAE Systems The Electronic Systems sector of BAE Systems is part of a global defense, aerospace, and security company. We deliver products and services for air, land, sea, and space, as well as advanced electronics, intelligence, security, and IT solutions and support services. Our dedication shows in everything we design, produce, and deliver— to protect those who protect us in a high-performance, innovative culture. We push the limits of possibility to provide a critical advantage to our customers where it counts.
Scotsman
03-06-2025
- Politics
- Scotsman
Starmer must do much more to put UK in state of 'war-fighting readiness'
Sign up to our daily newsletter – Regular news stories and round-ups from around Scotland direct to your inbox Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... At the BAE Systems' shipyard in Govan, Keir Starmer said words that should not be brushed aside as the usual political rhetoric: 'We are moving to war-fighting readiness.' His government's aim, he stressed, was to create 'a battle-ready, armour-clad nation'. "When we are being directly threatened by states with advanced military forces, the most effective way to deter them is to be ready, and frankly, to show them that we're ready to deliver peace through strength.' Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad He spoke after Germany's defence chief General Carsten Breuer told the BBC that analysts studying Russia's manufacturing of weapons had identified 'an intent and... a build up of the stocks' for a possible future attack on Nato members Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania within four years. However he added: 'If you ask me now, is this a guarantee that's not earlier than 2029? I would say no, it's not. So we must be able to fight tonight," Breuer said. Prince William rides in a Challenger 2 tank while visiting British forces at the Tapa army base in northern Estonia in March (Picture: Raigo Pajula) | AFP via Getty Images Six new munitions factories Such warnings should make it clear that Russia's war on Ukraine is far from the limit of Vladimir Putin's ambitions for military conquest. And, in the face of such threats, Nato must remain united in its determination to regard an attack on one as an attack on all, despite Donald Trump calling that crucial concept into question. The government's plans include spending £15 billion on nuclear warheads, ordering up to 12 more attack submarines and up to 7,000 long-range weapons, and opening at least six new munitions factories, with defence spending increasing to 2.5 per cent of gross domestic product by 2027 and 3 per cent during the next parliament. This will be a drain on stretched Treasury funds, but the extra work for Scottish and UK defence industry firms should provide the grim solace of a 'war dividend' for the economy. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad
RTHK
02-06-2025
- Business
- RTHK
UK to build attack subs as part of defence review
UK to build attack subs as part of defence review Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer visited the BAE Systems' Govan shipbuilding site. Photo: Reuters Britain announced on Monday that it would build 12 new attack submarines as it launched a major defence review to move the country to "war-fighting readiness" in the face of "Russian aggression" and the changing nature of conflict. Prime Minister Keir Starmer warned that "the threat we now face is more serious, more immediate and more unpredictable than at any time since the Cold War," as he launched the review in Glasgow. "We face war in Europe, new nuclear risks, daily cyberattacks, growing Russian aggression in our waters, menacing our skies," he added. The Strategic Defence Review, which assesses threats facing the United Kingdom and makes recommendations, said that Britain was entering "a new era of threat". As a result, Starmer said his government aimed to deliver three "fundamental changes". "First, we are moving to war-fighting readiness as the central purpose of our armed forces," he said. "Every part of society, every citizen of this country, has a role to play, because we have to recognise that things have changed in the world of today. The front line, if you like, is here." Secondly, the prime minister insisted that UK defence policy would "always be Nato first", and finally that the UK "will innovate and accelerate innovation at a wartime pace so we can meet the threats of today and of tomorrow." The UK has been racing to rearm on a perceived Russian threat and fears that US President Donald Trump will no longer help protect Europe. Starmer said the review would serve as "a blueprint for strength and security for decades to come", taking into account the increasing use of drones and artificial intelligence on the battlefield. His government pledged in February to lift defence spending to 2.5 percent of GDP by 2027 in the "largest sustained increase in defence spending since the end of the Cold War". And despite budget constraints, it aims for spending to rise to three percent in the next parliamentary term, due in 2029. (AFP)
Daily Mirror
02-06-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mirror
UK issued ominous warning of 'enemies at our door' as PM unveils defence plan
The Prime Minister said the long-awaited strategic defence review would make the UK 'safer and stronger, a battle-ready, armour-clad nation' amid Russian threats Britain will move to "war-fighting readiness" and every citizen must play their part, Keir Starmer said as he unveiled a battle plan for the nation's defence. The Prime Minister said the long-awaited strategic defence review (SDR) would make the UK "safer and stronger, a battle-ready, armour-clad nation" amid Russian threats in the air, at sea and online. Speaking at a BAE Systems' shipyard in Govan, in Glasgow, Mr Starmer said the front line "is here" - with threats facing the UK "more serious, more immediate and more unpredictable" than any time since the Cold War. In an ominous warning, Lord Robertson, who co-wrote the Strategic Defence Review, said Britain's enemies "are at our door". "Cyber attacks, assassinations, election interference, disinformation campaigns" are all activities that are already happening," he told LBC. The Labour ex-Defence Secretary said: "Our enemies are at our door. They're already there. And when you've got a question about welfare or warfare, you know, what happens if a cyber attack stops our hospitals from working? What if it turns our power off? "What happens if it stops the cars, the police cars in the street? These things are real and alive. And some cases are actually happening today." He warned: "Tomorrow's war could be much nastier, much crueller, much more brutal." His warning came as the PM faces questions over how his defence commitments would be funded after he refused to spell out when his ambition to ramp up defence spending to at least 3% of GDP would be met. The PM promised in February to hike the amount the country spends on defence to 2.5% of economic output by 2027 - with an ambition to hit 3% in the next Parliament. But NATO chief Mark Rutte has already said that allies need to spend considerably more than 3%. Paul Johnson, from the respected IFS think-tank, said: "Bluntly, it really does seem to me that the only choice that is available, if we're going to go through all of those things, is some really quite chunky tax increases to pay for it." Lord Dannatt, former head of the British Army, said that vague commitments to defence spending "does not cut the mustard". He told Times Radio: "It's a little bit like saying in 1938 to Adolf Hitler, please don't attack us till 1946, because we're not going to be ready. Well, frankly, if we'd behaved like that, we wouldn't be speaking English this morning, would we?" The government has accepted all 62 recommendations in the review, which include building extra attack submarines, six new munitions factories, £15billion on nuclear warheads and thousands of new long-range weapons. The plans will help the army become "10 times more lethal", with greater use of AI and drones. The armed forces will move to "war-fighting readiness" and cash will be ploughed into defence to create jobs across the country. But the SDR laid bare how the military had been hollowed out under the Tories. It found that the armed forces were not currently fit to fight Russia or China, with inadequate weapons stockpiles, recruitment issues and problems with morale. The PM said Britain must prepare for war if it wants to avoid it. He said: "Every part of society, every citizen of this country, has a role to play because we have to recognise that things have changed. In the world of today, the front line, if you like, is here. "The threat we now face is more serious, more immediate and more unpredictable than at any time since the Cold War. We face war in Europe, new nuclear risks, daily cyber attacks, growing Russian aggression in our waters, menacing our skies. "Their reckless actions driving up the cost of living here at home, creating economic pain and hitting working people the hardest. A new era in the threats we face, demands a new era for defence and security, not just to survive in this new world but to lead." Mr Starmer said he was "100% confident" that the blueprint can be paid for. Defence Secretary John Healey, who last week said he expected to hit the target by 2034, last night told MPs: 'I am totally confident that we will meet the ambition of 3% in the next Parliament." But questions have been raised about a recruitment and retention crisis on the frontline. Mr Healey said the SDR will mark an end to an era of "hollowing out" of the armed forces. He told MPs he wants to see the British Army rise to at least 76,000 full-time soldiers in the next Parliament - 2029 to 2034. He told MPs: 'For too long our army has been asked to do more with less. We inherited a long-run recruitment crisis, 14 Tory years of cuts to full-time troops. "Reversing this decline will take time, but we are acting to stem the loss now and aiming to increase the British Army to at least 76,000 full time soldiers in the next Parliament. For the first time in a generation, we are a Government who want the number of regular soldiers to rise." Mr Healey was challenged by MP Zarah Sultana over how the Government was finding money for defence at the same time as 'slashing disability benefits, keeping millions of children in poverty through the two-child benefit cap and cutting winter fuel support for pensioners'. 'The first duty of any government is to defend the country and keep its citizens safe,' he replied. 'We invest in defence in order to deter and prevent a war that brings such extreme human and economic costs. 'If we can't defend the country, where will we be with an NHS without power, with submarine cables that mean data doesn't work? Strong national security is fundamental to a stable economy, a strong society.'
Scotsman
02-06-2025
- Business
- Scotsman
Readers' Letters: Scottish Government's stance on defence spending misguided
A reader suggests the Scottish Government should be more supportive of spending on munitions Sign up to our daily newsletter – Regular news stories and round-ups from around Scotland direct to your inbox Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... In light of the statement made by Prime Minister Keir Starmer as he unveiled the government's defence spending plans,and stating that the UK military is moving to 'war-fighting readiness', I could hardly believe an earlier response to part of the plans by the Scottish Government's Rural Affairs Secretary Mairi Gougeon, in which she stated: 'I think the key difference between ourselves and the UK Government is that, when we have principles, we stick to them.' I therefore have a question. In attempting to repel any future aggressor, and in the increasingly dangerous world we now live in, is it her intention, as a means of protecting these shores, to send our ground troops to the field of battle in fully electric armoured vehicles fuelled/powered and charged by intermittent wind driven turbines and an assortment of other renewable sources playing the bagpipes and waving claymores? Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad No wonder The UK Defence Secretary John Healey has accused the Scottish Government of 'student union politics' over its decison to lock a £2.5 million grant for a specialist welding centre in Glasgow. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer delivers a speech during a visit to the BAE Systems' Govan facility yesterday (Picture: Andy Buchanan -) Neil McKinnon, Glenalmond, Perth & Kinross Only hope UK Defence Secretary John Healey appears to have an extensive portfolio encompassing many domains of Westminster governance if his pre-publishing preparation of the public to receive the UK Government's Strategic Defence Review in the press is anything to go by. Aside from geopolitical considerations regarding a £6 billion spend on a dozen attack submarines and 7,000 upgraded long-range weapons of mass vaporisation he repeatedly emphasises the 'opportunities for young people' in Scotland in a bonanza of training and employment roles in 'strengthening of the British industrial base in more defence investment'. This in a Scottish nation that harbours the aspiration of unilateral nuclear disarmament to effectively remove our people from the "first strike' and retaliatory Armageddon that would unfold in the opening exchanges of a tactical nuclear war not of our making. Mr Healey's helpful and farsighted sustainable industrial and employmemt strategies and his threats to bypass devolved government legislation should represent further wake-up calls to to our people about Starmer and co's commitment to maintaining a world order of mutual assured destruction, with the Union Jack in the vanguard. These captains of our 'wellbeing' economy are the same people facilitating genocide in Gaza, prolonging mass death in the Ukraine and who have seriously considered putting our sons' 'boots on the ground'. They must disappoint their corporate and globalist sponsors and leave office at their earliest convenience and before then cease to patronise the Scottish people with thinly veiled attempts to further exploit and subvert the fabric of Scottish life by promises of prosperity based on death products, carbon phobia and fulfilling the role of being the "battery pack" for a failing UK economy. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad When will Scottish Labour Party supporters make the leap of faith to secession from Westminster along with the English regions in communion, not union? Therein lies our only hope. Andrew Docherty, Selkirk, Scottish Borders Marine marvels It is forgivable to believe, nowadays, that the Royal Navy is much diminished. If one watches the familiar archive film of the British Grand fleet in the Great War, led by Admirals Jellicoe and Beatty, steaming out of Rosyth or Scapa Flow, the Royal Navy accounted for 622 warships. By 1939, under the command of Sir Dudley Pound, the number had increased to 1410 and Britain ruled the waves. Only China today has a similar fleet. Yet one item screams out of the pages of the newly published Strategic Defence Review, namely that the UK will build 12 additional attack submarines at BAE in Barrow, creating 30,000 jobs. Under the radar (or sonar!), the UK already has seven of the lethal Astute Class submarines, called 'boats' in the Royal Navy. No other superpower has an equivalent. The seven Astute class are armed with spearfish heavy torpedoes, and Tomahawk missiles, which can hit a target 1,000 miles away; they feature advanced sensors and optronic masts (there is no periscope).They feature Atlas hydrographic high precision echo sounders and, with 39,000 acoustic tiles, defence strategists say they are as quiet as a baby dolphin. They have unparalleled stealth and combat capability and will have for many years. In Nato exercises with the US Navy they could not be located. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad They can circumnavigate the globe undetected, producing their own water and oxygen. More importantly, they can be used and have already been involved in conflict (Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya). By the 2030s the deterrent of the Vanguard Class will have been replaced by Dreadnought submarines, which the Astute class also protect. Were the Dreadnoughts to fire their ICBMs, deterrence would have failed. The Astute Class and its 12 enhancements will provide that crucial deterrent for years to come. John V Lloyd, Inverkeithing, Fife Reform's cuckoo Extract Nigel Farage from the electoral equation and who exactly does Reform UK have to offer? Like his mentor and onetime best buddy Donald Trump, Farage cuts more of a presidential figure than a largely absentee MP. In a first test of their popularity in Scotland, the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election, it will be fascinating to see how Reform UK fares. Gerald Edwards, somewhat optimistically, suggests (Letters, 2 June) that they can't lose, even if it's a close thing, Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad A recent poll has the staggering statistic that 88 per cent of Scots disapprove of Nigel Farage and his policies. Like Boris Johnson before him, we Scots see him for what he is, an opportunistic chancer. Farage is the cuckoo of British politics, feeding off the ideas of other parties and claiming them as his own. We can only hope that in Thursday's by-election he's flung out of the political nest. Ian Petrie, Edinburgh Democratic fails The democratic process is the loser when politicians prefer to hide rather than face the electorate and be held accountable for their beliefs, actions and party policies. We had two instances of this during the past week. First when Labour candidate for the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election Davy Russell refused to take part in a hustings debate on Tuesday night. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad On Thursday Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner had been due to arrive at her party's Hamilton HQ at around 1.15pm to do some canvassing with Russell but abandoned this because the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign group were holding a demonstration outside. It seems she was not keen on being put on the spot as to why her party was continuing to supply military equipment to Israel amidst the ongoing slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. One of the most interesting aspects of Ms Rayner's visit was that Labour initially advised the Scottish media that they would have absolutely no access to her. Democracy 0, Labour 2! Alan Woodcock, Dundee Wasteful I notice that David Miliband, our green energy guru, is proposing to hike the green levy on our energy bills to help finance the push to reach net zero in a bid to save the world! It is difficult for anyone who understands how little this country contributes to the overall noxious gases polluting our world how this emphasis on green energy is worth the vast sums of money being extracted from UK households, business and manufacturing to be spent in this way. Of course, it is not only the green energy monster that has to be fed through taxation, it is practically all aspects of government with their salaries and pension pots that have to be paid for. For example, we hear that over 50 per cent of the cost of running our Scottish Government is spent on staff salary and pensions... how can that be considered an equitable outcome for our taxes? It is as if we, the taxpayers, are funding a shadow economy that is out of our control! Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad It really is time to say stop, review where we are in economic terms, ask serious questions regarding funding of all national and local government entities and understand just what the important priorities should be for the country. As we stand at present none of the current main political parties seem ready to grasp the nettle regarding running our country, concentrating on future needs. Obviously, the future is a great unknown, however, some of the future requirements should be coming clearer. For example, we know future energy requirements will be at least treble that of today and energy costs need to be reduced markedly. We also know that robotics, AI and IT will impact greatly on the job market in a negative way in terms of job opportunities at the lower skill level end. In addition there will be need to be a sea change in the perception of the majority of the population as there will be a greater acceptance of self reliance rather than government assistance Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad In short, back to basics principles of small government, low taxation – and so far none of the political parties (or the voting public) seem ready to embrace this philosophy. A Lewis, Coylton, Ayrshire Blind spot In yesterday's Now and Then column there was this entry for 1924: The US Congress confirmed citizenship on American Indians. Considering the indigenous people were already there, that was very magnanimous of them. C Lowson , Fareham, Hants Write to The Scotsman
