The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has initiated a significant wargaming exercise designed to rigorously test the resilience of the UK’s defence supply chains under the pressures of sustained, large-scale conflict. This exercise, announced on 29 April 2026, brings together senior MOD leadership and five major industry partners – Boeing, KNDS, ...
Scottish Affairs Committee hears from BAE Systems, Babcock, Leonardo and QinetiQ on supply chain bottlenecks, SME risk and the urgent need for the Defence Investment Plan. The leaders of four UK defence primes have told the Scottish Affairs Committee that the pace of MoD procurement, an uneven distribution of SME spend, ...
Business leaders call for defence industry to be made a national priority as critical material shortages, steel pressures and economic coercion threaten UK supply chain resilience. The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) has issued a stark warning that the UK’s defence industrial base is increasingly exposed to trade shocks and supply ...
More than 120 service family homes at Woolwich Barracks in south London are being upgraded under the £9 billion Defence Housing Strategy, with the first of the refurbished properties handed over ahead of the Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment returning from deployment in Cyprus. Defence Secretary John Healey MP and ...
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