On the 25th October 2013, the French Navy’s Second of Class FREMM Multi-Mission Frigate “Normandie” has started its first sea trials in Lorient.

On 26 September 2013, in La Spezia bay, a great day occurred for OCCAR, OSN and the Italian Navy. Three IT FREMM ships, ITS Carlo BERGAMINI, Virginio FASAN and Carlo MARGOTTINI were together at sea for the first time.

Seville, 30th September 2013: In a spectacular ceremony held at the A400M Final Assembly Line in Seville, the first production A400M was officially delivered to the French Air Force.

The French navy’s FREMM multi-mission frigate “Provence” was launched in Lorient by DCNS on 18 September 2013 under the supervision of OCCAR FREMM Programme Division.

On 21 August the 200th produced BOXER vehicle was delivered by the manufacturer ARTEC. The 1st Netherlands BOXER ended up as the 200th BOXER vehicle.

On the 1st August 2013 OCCAR-EA completed the acceptance and delivery of the first production A400M aircraft on behalf of the lead Nation France.

31 July 2013 - Today the Airbus Military A400M new generation airlifter has received its Type Acceptance at the contractual Initial Operating Clearance (IOC) Standard from OCCAR

The Paris Airshow opened at Le Bourget on 17th June. The opening flying display was by the A400M.

29th of May 2013: The Italian Frigate “Carlo BERGAMINI” was accepted by OCCAR and delivered to the Italian Navy at Fincantieri-Muggiano premises (La Spezia).

The first production A400M new generation airlifter made its maiden flight on 6 March 2013, marking a key milestone towards its delivery to the French Air Force.

On the 06th March 2013, the first SAMP/T Anti Tactical Ballistic Missile (ATBM) firing with tactical link L16 was successfully held in Biscarrosse (DGA Missile trial Centre).

On 28th February 2013, Mr Patrick Bellouard handed his Director’s responsibilities over to Mr Tim Rowntree during a farewell event.

Monday, 4th February 2013, the Aquitaine, the first frigate of the French Navy’s FREMM class (Multi-Mission Frigate), has successfully fired its first air defence missile Aster 15 in the Mediterranean.

An Antonov 124, with the first two Tiger UHT ASGARD on board, took off from Leipzig Airport to the main German operating base of Mazar-e Sharif in the far north of Afghanistan

On the 5th of December, the Italian First of Class Carlo BERGAMINI Frigate shot 54 cannon rounds in the waters of La Spezia Gulf.

The A400M transport aircraft has completed the 300 hour function and reliability (F&R) flight-test phase.

After a very challenging two months, the Italian Frigate “Carlo BERGAMINI” (FOC GP) successfully completed in Taranto Naval Base, a very tight programme, agreed during the RPR (Reception Partielle Review) held in July 2012, to integrate the Combat System (C/S) sub-systems within the Combat Management System (CMS)

The French FREMM ASM (Anti Submarine Warfare) First of Class frigate, “Aquitaine” was accepted by OCCAR-EA Director.

To day the Invitation to Tender with regard to:
Acquisition of standard items and consumables for the FSAF and PAAMS programmes
was launched.

All details for this ITT can be downloaded here

The official signing of the new COBRA In-Service Support contract (2013-15) by OCCAR-EA Deputy Director Eric Huybrechts and Mr. Christoph Weber - Director Business Area Aviation from ESG GmbH
took place during the last COBRA Programme Working Group meeting on 19th September 2012.

Following a competitive tendering exercise OCCAR has in August 2012 awarded a 3 year contract, with options for a further 2 years, for COBRA In-Service Support (ISS).

On 8th August 2012 the last invoices concerning the MUSIS Federating Activities Phase B1 were paid to the companies Thales Alenia Space and EADS Astrium. This event marked the successful completion of the Phase B1 contract.

In a spirit of good cooperation, INDRA and OCCAR-EA succeeded in finding an agreement on the terms and conditions for SPO2 shortly after the signature of the Frame Contract and SPO1.
SPO2 is mainly addressing TIMS requirements for the A400M programme and came into effect on the 08 August 2012.
The timely signature of SPO2 will considerably contribute to maintaining the consistancy between the development shedules of all workpackages, which, on its turn, will allow INDRA and OCCAR-EA to reach the mayor milestones as initially planned.

The public information available on this website with reference to the TIGER programme has been updated.

The Organisation for Joint Armament Cooperation and the European Defence Agency signed an Administrative Arrangement.