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Defence Growth Partnership: a positive progress update

July 15, 2016

Announced at the Farnborough Airshow in 2012, the Defence Growth Partnership has played an indispensable role in encouraging government and industry to join forces to propel innovation and improve UK defence sector exportability. MOD DCB features writer Domhnall Macinnes caught up with Allan Cook CBE, Chairman of Atkins and industry Co-Chair of the DGP, to discuss past achievements ...

Supply Chain Advocates: connecting SMEs with the MOD

July 13, 2016

The Ministry of Defence announced recently that it had built a network of Supply Chain Advocates to help SME companies do business with the Department. Here, MOD DCB features editor Julie Shennan explores the aims and functions of this network. The Government is reforming the way in which Whitehall conducts its procurement activity, stripping out bureaucracy and making ...

MOD celebrates innovation in British defence companies

Air July 9, 2016

Defence Secretary Michael Fallon MP took time out to congratulate award-winning British businesses at the recent Farnborough International Airshow. Mr Fallon met a number of British-based small and medium-sized enterprises which won awards in the MOD-funded Defence Growth Partnership (DGP) Innovation Challenge, run in partnership between the UK Defence Solutions Centre (UKDSC) and the Ministry of Defence. He was ...

Encryption: addressing the cyber threat to UK defence

Homeland July 2, 2016

Ahead of last year’s Strategic Defence and Security Review, Chancellor George Osborne announced plans to double spend on cyber security by 2020. MOD DCB features writer Gemma Gaughan spoke to Dr Phil Jones, Head of Cyber Security and Richard Goodall, Head of Cyber Security Engineering at Airbus Defence and Space ...