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New economic report reveals defence sector supports thousands of UK jobs

Land March 23, 2022

A newly published economic report has outlined the huge value of the defence sector to UK jobs, businesses and exports. The report has been published by the Joint Economic Data Hub (JEDHub), a collaborative initiative to improve understanding of the defence sector’s contribution to the UK economy and an important deliverable of the ...

Government launches new National Shipbuilding Strategy

Maritime March 22, 2022

The Government has launched a refreshed National Shipbuilding Strategy (NSbS) to revitalise the UK’s world-renowned shipbuilding industry. During a visit to Cammell Laird Shipyard in Merseyside last week, the Prime Minister and Defence Secretary set out how the new strategy would level up regions across the UK by supporting high-quality jobs, technology ...

Ploughshare wins £280,000 in government funding to develop two defence technologies

Homeland March 17, 2022

Ploughshare, the company owned by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) that finds new and inspiring uses for government inventions, has won more than £280,000 in grants to develop two technologies for the benefit of society. Ploughshare facilitated successful bids by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) to the government’s new ...

MCL and IAI awarded UK MoD Project Thesus contract

Land March 3, 2022

Marlborough Communications Limited (MCL) and its technology partner, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), have been awarded a contract to deliver demonstrations of their highly-automated ground and air resupply network, providing innovative capability based on the latest autonomous technology as part of Project Theseus. This contract with Future Capabilities Group within the Ministry ...