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UK Defence Innovation has opened a Tactical Power Challenge worth £2.45 million seeking better ways to generate, store, distribute and manage electrical power for deployed forces.
Russia is conducting a campaign of hybrid attacks and sabotage across Europe, and Britain is working with the United States to deter and contest activity that threatens Euro-Atlantic security.
The 2027 date for DragonFire on a Type 45 was given three times. Asked this week by what date it will be fitted, ministers referred back to an answer without one.
Two Royal Navy patrol ships have finished a ten day exercise in the South China Sea alongside Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand and Singapore, working with fifth generation fighters, a Singaporean submarine and New Zealand boarding teams.
Thirty-three Royal Navy warships have been taken out of operational service since 2010, of which eight have been sold, fifteen recycled and ten are still waiting to be disposed of.
Julian David, chief executive of techUK, was giving evidence on the implications of the Defence Investment Plan for British industry.
Stephen Phipson, chief executive of MakeUK, was giving evidence alongside Kevin Craven of ADS, Julian David of techUK and Arnab Dutt of the Federation of Small Businesses.
The Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Defence was asked five times by a member of the Defence Committee whether the Defence Investment Plan settlement is backloaded.
More than a billion pounds was moved out of the defence housing budget during the Defence Investment Plan process.
Kevin Craven, chief executive of ADS, gave the figure during a session on the implications of the Defence Investment Plan for British industry.
