Defence Secretary Dan Jarvis MBE has announced a £752 million package to deliver 150,000 drones and more than 350 air defence missiles and radars to Ukraine by the end of 2026, funded through the UK’s Extraordinary Revenue Acceleration (ERA) loan backed by immobilised Russian sovereign assets. The package is notable for ...
New research from Barclays paints a clear picture of where the UK innovation economy is heading: towards defence. More than half of UK tech and innovation firms (57%) are now targeting defence and national security markets, with 62% actively adapting their products and services to meet sector requirements. Defence-focused businesses ...
The Ministry of Defence is embedding a new approach to industry engagement across its procurement activity, with lessons drawn from urgent operational support to the Middle East now being formalised into a standing model for how Defence works with suppliers. At the centre of the change is the Defence Industrial Joint ...
The Government Office for Science has published a new Foresight report on supply chain risk and resilience that carries direct relevance for the defence sector, as the industry navigates an increasingly contested global environment and a government push to build sovereign industrial capacity. “Global Supply Chains: A Foresight report on risk ...
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