frontpage icon
OCCAR News
MMCM OCCAR
Visit of the FR MINAR to the MMCM industrial facilities

On 29 May, the French Minister of Defense, Mme Florence Parly, was presented the progress of the Maritime Mine Counter Measures (MMCM) programme in Brest, France.

MMCM contract announcement by UK Defence Procurement Minister, Harriet Baldwin and the Head of the French defence procurement office (DGA), Laurent Collet-Billon. Copyright: Quentin Reytinas
MMCM contract announcement for Manufacture and Qualification

The contract to proceed with Stages 2 and 3 of the Maritime Mine Counter Measure (MMCM) Programme has been jointly announced, on 20 October, at EURONAVAL by the United Kingdom (UK) Defence Procurement Minister, Harriet Baldwin and for France by the Head of the defence procurement office (Direction Générale de l'Armement), Laurent Collet-Billon.
image of Mr. Beniot Plantier, Thales Underwater Systems Chief Executive Officer, and Mr. Tim Rowntree, OCCAR Director, signing the MMCM contract
MMCM Programme integrated into OCCAR and MMCM contract awarded

On behalf of France and the United Kingdom (UK), OCCAR has awarded the Maritime Mine Counter Measures (MMCM) contract to Thales Underwater Systems, in collaboration with BAE Systems and their partners in France (ECA) and in the UK (ASV, Wood & Douglas, SAAB UK).
A major milestone achieved for the integration of the FR/UK MMCM programme into OCCAR
A major milestone achieved for the integration of the FR/UK MMCM programme into OCCAR

A major milestone for the integration into OCCAR of the FR/UK MMCM Programme was achieved on the 20th of April 2012 at the OCCAR-EA premises in Malakoff, ...