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...He spent hundreds of millions of dollars on Bigelow Aerospace, launching two spacecraft with Russian partners, and investigated claims of UFOs for a once-secret Pentagon programme....
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...It created a board-level aerospace safety committee and a chief safety officer role....
...His comments echo those of Eric Beranger, chief executive of Europe’s missile defence champion MBDA, who recently told the FT the UK in particular should be considered part of “geographical Europe”....
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...Raine was an adviser when Silver Lake invested $500mn into City Football Group, owner of Premier League champions Manchester City, in 2019, and on the sale of Olympique Lyonnais in 2022....
...The UK’s national defence champion has struck a deal to buy Ball Aerospace for $5.6bn. That gives it access to the fast-growing market for space-based defence systems, such as military satellites....
...Sweden’s defence champion Saab may be better known as the maker of the Gripen fighter jet but, according to Sash Tusa of research firm Agency Partners in London, its other weapons have “really come into...
...Comac, China’s state-backed aerospace champion whose first single-aisle C919 commercial flight took to the skies last year, has begun to emerge as the first real threat in decades....
...Tiger, founded by Coleman in 2001, amassed the stake this year and has also “selectively added” other new holdings in the aerospace and healthcare sectors, according to the letter....
...Smith is an aerospace veteran who joined the group from Honeywell Aerospace in 2017, with a mission to transform the company from a research organisation to a business....
...It also has partnerships with McLaren Racing and F1 champions Red Bull, the England cricket team and German football league leaders Bayer Leverkusen....
...The disastrous accident that has brought a halt to operations at Cruise, the General Motors driverless car division, is the kind of setback that champions of autonomous vehicles have long dreaded....
...The £615mn penalty is the second-biggest meted out by British courts since the DPA scheme began, behind a €991mn settlement with Europe’s aerospace champion Airbus agreed in 2020....
...“In Vietnam we have seen the rise of private sector national champions that are politically influential....
...There was also still a tendency to “go back to national champions and national views of procurement and armament,” something he said had been partly fuelled by the additional funds being made available....
...In his first interview since taking the helm of the Italian aerospace and defence group, Roberto Cingolani said the Ukraine war had served as a wake-up call for the European defence industry....
...The Blue Origin boss, who came from Honeywell Aerospace in 2017, has been aggressively expanding the company during the past five years with the goal of transforming it “from a research organisation to a...
...Airbus Defence and Space, said that there needed to be more collaboration across Europe, adding that new money coming into the sector because of the Ukraine war had fuelled a tendency to focus on national champions...
...The C919 was built by state-backed aerospace champion Comac and the first flight was operated by national carrier China Eastern....
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