Responses to the Defence Industrial Policy Refresh have been submitted and assembled by the MOD. The consultation was launched at the end of 2016 seeking views from across industry sectors in order to support growth and competitiveness, while still meeting MOD’s value for money and capability requirements. The views will be ...
In our second article featuring SMEs in the defence arena, we speak to Jo Ashburner Farr, CEO and Operations Director of Red Dragon Flagmakers in Swansea. With an interesting career spanning the design, manufacture, retail and wholesale of her own brand of eco baby products through to flag making via business ...
In the second in our series of interviews with defence SMEs, we speak with Bernard Parsons, CEO of Becrypt, about the Defence supply chain and the needs of the technology industry when engaging with the government. Becrypt was founded in 2001 by Bernard and three former colleagues, to meet the growing security ...
Following the Government and MOD drive to include more SME businesses in the defence supply chain, we spoke to several members of the community to hear their ideas, issues, challenges and benefits of working within this key supply chain. Our first interview sees us speak with Steve Kingan, Chairman of tech ...