The Scottish Government has announced an extra £600,000 funding over the next three years for veterans and ex-service charities. Veterans Secretary Keith Brown announced the funding ahead of the 2016 Armed Forces and Veterans Champions Annual Gathering in Glasgow. The Scottish Veterans Fund opens to applicants this autumn and helps a wide ...
Senior advisors to SME’s have participated in their first Member States’ SME Point of Contacts (PoCs) last week at the Agency premises in Brussels. The latest meeting was devised to look at the implementation of the 2016 priorities of the EDA SME Action Plan and the results of the EDA exploratory study ...
With 2015/6 seeing the culmination of the rebasing programme, defence infrastructure has had to grow to accommodate the arrival of many more troops and their families. The Rebasing programme will see some of the biggest troop movements from Germany, with some 5,000 personnel being relocated to bases across Britain – including ...
Defence Online’s Victoria Maggiani speaks exclusively to members of the defence business community about the Initiative. This Autumn saw Defence Secretary Michael Fallon launch the Defence Innovation Initiative, a scheme to promote home-grown innovation in the defence sector. The £800M fund is backed by IRIS (innovation and research insights unit) and the ...