The Ministry of Defence has launched VALOUR, a new £50 million nationwide veterans support network, and is calling on Welsh organisations to apply for funding to join the system as it expands across the UK. The Office for Veterans’ Affairs has already committed £13 million to 14 organisations across the UK, ...
The UK’s Defence Medical Command has hosted the Surgeon General of Ukraine’s Armed Forces for a visit focused on strengthening medical cooperation, sharing frontline lessons from three years of high-intensity warfare, and expanding joint research and training programmes. Major General Anatolii Kazmirchuk met senior UK defence clinical leaders including Chief of ...
A Dstl project applying neuroscience to military training has reached over 1,200 RAF personnel and industry technicians, with its methods now mandated across the Typhoon Training Facility at RAF Coningsby and influencing training pipelines as far as the Joint Services Command and Staff College and the Royal Navy. The Developing Education ...
Thirteen British technology companies have been awarded contracts worth up to £4 million each through the Ministry of Defence’s accelerated contracting vehicle Commercial X, as the government moves to open up new routes into defence for small and innovative businesses, less than four months after the programme was announced. The contracts ...