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Defence AI integration increasingly depends on secure industrial deployment. Saab’s new Cohere partnership ties GlobalEye’s future as much to aerospace engineering as to software performance.
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Affordable mass munitions need propulsion suppliers that can scale quickly. PBS Aerospace’s latest Air Force award puts turbojet production capacity at the centre of the FAMM programme.
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Airbus is enlarging Britain’s sovereign cyber-industrial base through acquisition now. Its agreement to buy Ultra Cyber adds more than 200 specialists in Maidenhead, extends UK cyber engineering depth, and brings in airborne datalink capability alongside the group’s existing Newport and continental European footprint.
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Phoenix 3 turns fleet support into a deeper logistics contract. Babcock’s new MOD award covers procurement, maintenance, accident management, and a bespoke digital fleet platform, underlining how support vehicles remain an industrial readiness issue rather than an administrative afterthought.
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Hanwha’s Poland push is becoming a fast munitions manufacturing programme. A newly disclosed follow-up agreement for the Homar-K effort points to a longer industrial runway for licensed production, parts supply, and technology transfer inside Poland’s defence base.
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Coventry becomes a scaling point for sovereign drone propulsion manufacturing. ePropelled’s new UK innovation centre is designed to push annual output past one million systems by 2027 as defence UAV demand lifts electric and hybrid propulsion into volume production.
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Fleet readiness is increasingly becoming a data and inspection problem. Gecko’s new Pacific Fleet contract turns robotic inspection into a scaled maintenance input for naval repair planning.
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Britain is buying integration capacity as much as combat technology. The proposed U.S. support package for SSN-AUKUS reaches deep into launcher design, software, electronics, training, and embedded personnel.
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Ondas is assembling a broader defence manufacturing base at speed. Its latest acquisition run spans autonomous aircraft, missile protection, ISR systems, and heavy military engineering platforms.
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CILT is rebuilding a defence logistics forum around capability needs. The relaunched One Defence Forum is designed to connect military, civilian, academic, and industrial voices as logistics becomes a harder-edged readiness discipline.