This report, “The £5.5bn Signal,” is DPRTE’s August 2026 defence market intelligence brief, mining a month’s worth of UK and Irish procurement records — 243 notices worth over £5.5bn in visible pipeline, including 120 from the MoD alone and four published over the August bank holiday weekend — to argue that August, usually written off as a dead month, is actually when buyers signal their next moves. The report comes at a pivotal moment because it reads this activity against the two policy documents that shaped it, June’s £298bn Defence Investment Plan and July’s SME Action Plan, and shows the…
