Team Tempest Expands, Saab Investing In UK FCAS Hub
The UK has brought another seven aerospace companies into the Team Tempest consortium to develop technologies for a future UK-led combat air system. British defense secretary Ben Wallace named Bombardier UK, Collins Aerospace, GE UK, GKN, Martin-Baker, Qinetiq and Thales UK as entrants to Team Tempest, which already included BAE Systems, Leonardo, MBDA and Rolls-Royce as it lead members. The new companies will work jointly with universities and small and medium-sized enterprises in developing “technologies and novel concepts that are likely to form our Future Combat Air System,” Wallace said.