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Defence Growth Partnership: a positive progress update

July 15, 2016

Announced at the Farnborough Airshow in 2012, the Defence Growth Partnership has played an indispensable role in encouraging government and industry to join forces to propel innovation and improve UK defence sector exportability. MOD DCB features writer Domhnall Macinnes caught up with Allan Cook CBE, Chairman of Atkins and industry Co-Chair of the DGP, to discuss past achievements ...

CDE announce winners of Defence Growth Partnership Innovation Challenge

Homeland July 13, 2016

The Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE) has awarded contracts to the best ideas from its first competitions with the UK Defence Solutions Centre (UKDSC). In 2015 CDE, part of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), ran a series of SBRI themed competitions against which industry and academia submitted their innovative ideas. The first two competitions were on ...

MOD celebrates innovation in British defence companies

Air July 9, 2016

Defence Secretary Michael Fallon MP took time out to congratulate award-winning British businesses at the recent Farnborough International Airshow. Mr Fallon met a number of British-based small and medium-sized enterprises which won awards in the MOD-funded Defence Growth Partnership (DGP) Innovation Challenge, run in partnership between the UK Defence Solutions Centre (UKDSC) and the Ministry of Defence. He was ...

Supply chain fuelling UK defence aerospace success

July 1, 2016

The strength of the UK defence aerospace sector is drawn from the supply chain that fuels it. With Farnborough International Airshow just around the corner, MOD DCB features writer Domhnall Macinnes talked to Paul Everitt, Chief Executive of ADS Group and Chairman of Farnborough International Ltd, about the event and the integral role of the UK defence aerospace supply chain in delivering capability. Farnborough International ...