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New Defence External Innovation Advisory Panel meets

Homeland July 25, 2017

World class innovators including astronaut Tim Peake and former McLaren Chairman Ron Dennis gathered at the MOD for the first meeting of the new Defence External Innovation Advisory Panel. Announced by the Defence Secretary in Oxford in February, the Panel will be charged with driving forward the MOD’s Innovation Initiative, which aims ...

RUSI examines Defence Innovation and the UK

Homeland July 21, 2017

RUSI experts have delivered a new paper that examines Defence Innovation and the UK, and implications of the US Third Offset Strategy. Delivered by Professor John Louth, Professor Trevor Taylor and Doctor Andrew Tyler, the paper looks at UK defence equipment and its vulnerabilities, suggesting there needs to be more commitment ...

Conflict, Stability and Security Fund 2016 to 2017 and settlement for 2017 to 2018: written ministerial statement

July 20, 2017

Third annual statement on how the government supports national security by preventing and resolving conflict, building and keeping peace. I wish to update the House on how the Government has been supporting our national security interests through conflict prevention, peace building, stabilisation, peacekeeping and conflict resolution using the Conflict, Stability and Security ...

Successful live firing of Brimstone from Typhoon

Air July 19, 2017

A successful test of firing of the Brimstone air-to-surface missile from a Eurofighter Typhoon has been completed. The trial was undertaken as part of ongoing development work that will significantly upgrade the Typhoon, with this part of the development working to integrate the Phase 3 Enhancement (P3E) package. P3E forms part of ...