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 span quantum sensing, autonomous systems, secure communications, space manufacturing and synthetic training, and have been awarded to companies from across England, Wales and Scotland, with more than half having done little or no previous business with the MoD. The Defence Unicorn Fund in Action The awards are the first…
