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A new Torpedo Repair and Maintenance contract awarded to BAE Systems bridges to a longer-term modernisation programme while sustaining highly skilled engineering roles across Portsmouth, Edinburgh, Chelmsford and Glasgow – […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Two Dstl programmes are accelerating the British Army’s adoption of drone and counter-drone technology for future battlefield operations – with direct implications for UK industry partners developing AI, autonomous systems […]
The selection of Tekever’s AR5 drone for the British Army’s next-generation battlefield surveillance capability signals a significant step in UK autonomous systems procurement – and confirms Swindon as the manufacturing […]
The UK National Defence Procurement and Supply Chain Summit returns to Manchester’s Kimpton Clocktower Hotel on Thursday 22 October 2026, and the third in our series of session previews turns […]
A £20 million contract to develop a hypersonic target vehicle under the AUKUS partnership demonstrates exactly how major defence investment flows through to small businesses – and places 15 UK […]
BlackThorn’s multi-role modular architecture and low-cost, high-volume manufacturing design signals a fundamental shift in how the UK defence sector is approaching munitions for autonomous systems, counter-drone capability and one-way effectors. […]
A major contract extension with BAE Systems and Team Tempest partners will sustain more than 4,500 jobs across the UK and draw on a nationwide supply chain of around 600 […]
Unveiled at Farnborough International Airshow, Thunder represents a significant step in the maturation of autonomous combat aviation – and signals a growing market for the technologies and supply chain capabilities […]
A £20 million company-funded investment in high-energy laser technology signals a significant step towards the operational deployment of Laser Directed Energy Weapons, with implications for UK sovereign industrial capability and […]
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