Elbit scoops £40m contract for UK's Morpheus programme
Elbit Systems has been awarded an initial £40 million contract to deliver the British Army’s next-generation Battle Management Application (BMA), which forms part of the service’s wider Morpheus communications modernisation.
The UK MoD announced the contract award on 28 September, and follows earlier reports that the Israeli company had been downselected as the preferred BMA supplier.
According to the MoD, the Elbit supplied BMA will form a key part of the Morpheus programme and will deliver a ‘fieldable’ BMA solution which is capable of being integrated with the in-development Evolve to Open (EvO) System, which is the first stage
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