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SEA, part of Cohort plc, has secured a UK Defence Innovation (UKDI) funding contract through the 2025 AUKUS Maritime Innovation Challenge, one of four companies selected from a competitive multinational […]

The Government Office for Science has published a new Foresight report on supply chain risk and resilience that carries direct relevance for the defence sector, as the industry navigates an […]

When a critical component fails on a naval vessel deployed far from home, the supply chain has two options: wait weeks for a part to be shipped, or pay a […]

The UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund (UKI2S), managed by Future Planet Capital, has secured an additional £33.25m across three of its investment areas, taking total fund capacity to £150m. […]

The Ministry of Defence is embedding a new approach to industry engagement across its procurement activity, with lessons drawn from urgent operational support to the Middle East now being formalised […]

New research from Barclays paints a clear picture of where the UK innovation economy is heading: towards defence. More than half of UK tech and innovation firms (57%) are now […]

The delay to the Defence Investment Plan (DIP) came under intense parliamentary scrutiny on 15 June, with MPs across all parties pressing the government on the real-world consequences for UK […]

The Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) has launched early market engagement on a major facilities management contract to support British Forces South Atlantic Islands (BFSAI), covering MOD sites across the Falkland […]

A Partnership Agreement supporting the Huntingdonshire Defence Cluster and Project FAIRFAX has been significantly strengthened, with Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority, master developer Urban&Civic, and Newlands Developments formally joining Huntingdonshire […]

Defence Secretary Dan Jarvis MP has opened Europe’s largest drone testing and development facility in Swindon, establishing the UK’s Uncrewed Systems Centre (USC) at the new DroneTEX site as the […]

Five of the UK’s leading defence industry trade associations have issued a rare joint statement warning that delays to the Defence Investment Plan (DIP) and a reportedly marginal increase in […]

The resignation of Defence Secretary John Healey has laid bare a serious fault line in the government’s approach to defence funding, with warnings from senior Labour figures that the current […]

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