The Spending Review and the UK’s Strategic Priorities seeks to explain the UK’s defence and international spending, and what it tells us about the strategy underlying the government’s Integrated Review. In contrast to previous national security reviews, the 2021 Integrated Review (IR), published in March, was not accompanied by a multi-year ...
The Defence Secretary, Ben Wallace, has met with his Danish and Swedish counterparts to discuss shared threats, including NATO’s response to the situation in eastern Europe and increasing competition in the Arctic. In meetings with Danish Defence Minister Trine Bramsen on 8 December, and Swedish Defence Minister Peter Hultqvist on the ...
As production of Boxer vehicles is now well underway at WFEL’s new state-of-the-art Boxer Mechanised Infantry Vehicle production facility in Stockport, a further UK supply chain contract has been signed for the provision of Periscopes and Windows. Cwmbran-based GuS Periscopes will supply WFEL with Periscope and Window Systems for the Boxer ...
The Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) has recently awarded three new contracts to support infrastructure upgrades at UK armed forces bases used by the United States Visiting Forces (USVF). The Delivery Partner Technical Support contracts have been awarded to AECOM, Tetra Tech and Mace, which is a consortium of Mace, Turner Townsend ...