75 inward investment projects and 5,500 jobs created or protected in 2025-26 as £50 million defence deal cements Wales as emerging hub for autonomous defence capability. Wales attracted 75 foreign investment projects in 2025-26, its strongest performance since 2020-21, with direct investment creating over 1,500 new jobs and protecting thousands more ...
Oxfordshire SME demonstrates 900km-range autonomous effector to Secretary of State for Defence as programme moves towards Q4 scale-up. MGI Engineering has publicly showcased TigerShark, its high-speed long-range autonomous one-way effector, at a MOD industry event reviewing progress under Project Brakestop – the UK’s fast-track programme to develop and field sovereign deep-strike ...
Rachel Reeves has pledged the long-awaited Defence Investment Plan will be released before the NATO summit opens in Ankara on 7 July, amid political turbulence at the top of government and mounting pressure from industry and military leaders for adequate funding. Chancellor Rachel Reeves has confirmed that the UK’s Defence Investment ...
Challenge The Defence Medical Services (DMS) team urgently needed to digitise and automate inventory management, to overcome inefficiencies and operational risks. Manual processes led to misplaced or excess medical items, reducing accuracy and increasing wastage. Inventory details were recorded on paper and transcribed into spreadsheets, introducing delays and errors. The overall process was time-consuming, ...
July 30, 2026
Land - Agon Launches with $30 Million Seed Investment to Build Europe's Sovereign Defence AI Infrastructure
A European defence AI start-up has launched with one of the largest early-stage defence technology seed rounds in Europe this
July 30, 2026
Homeland - Europe is building a military on chips it cannot make
In 1950 Jean Monnet persuaded Europe that pooling coal and steel would make another Franco-German war almost impossible. The idea
