22 Companies Win Contracts to Develop UK Energetics Factories as MoD Moves to Rebuild Sovereign Munitions Manufacturing
Feasibility study contracts worth up to £300,000 each mark the opening phase of a programme to build at least six new energetics manufacturing facilities across England, Scotland and Wales – restoring a sovereign munitions supply pipeline that has declined over decades. The Ministry of Defence has awarded feasibility study contracts to 22 companies – including […]
Agon Launches with $30 Million Seed Investment to Build Europe’s Sovereign Defence AI Infrastructure
A European defence AI start-up has launched with one of the largest early-stage defence technology seed rounds in Europe this year, targeting a critical gap in the autonomous weapons development pipeline: the AI training infrastructure that does not yet exist at the scale modern defence programmes require. Agon, a European defence AI company, has launched […]
Europe is building a military on chips it cannot make
Article submitted by Noah Liot. In 1950 Jean Monnet persuaded Europe that pooling coal and steel would make another Franco-German war almost impossible. The idea was control – own the inputs and constrain the conflict. Steel decided the last century’s wars. This century’s are being decided by semiconductors, yet Europe makes none of the advanced […]
UKDI Opens Cycle 8 of Innovation Support to Operations
UK Defence Innovation is inviting proposals across five urgent operational challenge areas, with contracts of up to £1 million available for technologies that can reach deployment scale within 12 months of project completion. UK Defence Innovation has launched Cycle 8 of its Innovation Support to Operations competition, inviting innovators from across UK industry and academia […]