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Technology Partnership in Defence

This 'Technology Partnership in Defence' report takes forward MOD’s Innovation Strategy (published in December 2007 - link to the right of this page) and was written by the National Defence Industries Council Research & Development R&D Group (NDIC RDG). The report makes clear recommendations for more effective planning of UK Defence R&D and focuses on the Defence Technology Plan (link to the right of this page) as the primary vehicle for joint R&D planning.


Date: 30 Oct 08

Defence Innovation Strategy

The MOD Innovation Strategy builds on the Defence White Paper published in 2005 as the Defence Industrial Strategy (DIS) (Cm6697). The DIS set out a commitment to achieve a better understanding of the innovation process within the defence supply chain.

The new Innovation Strategy identifies the main challenges to innovation in delivery of our defence capability. It expresses actions to address these challenges in terms of five distinct pillars.
 
These pillars show our intent to articulate our capability needs better, provide transparency in how we translate these needs and aspirations through to delivery of capability, highlight our commitment to open architectures which will in turn foster insertion of new or improved technology, demonstrate our commitment to new business models that provide incentives for both customers and suppliers to achieve greater innovation and communicate our desire to maintain the pace of MOD’s acquisition processes.


Date: 12 Dec 07

Maximising Defence Capability Through R&D

A new report 'Maximising Defence Capability Through R&D' has been published on the MOD internal and external websites.  The report follows a year long review, commissioned by the Chief Scientific Adviser, Professor Sir Roy Anderson, and the former Chief of Defence Procurement, Sir Peter Spencer, into the Ministry of Defence’s £2.6BN annual research and development activity. The report provides an impartial, objective and robust review on the effectiveness of MOD's investment.


Date: 8 Oct 07

Initial scoping study of tungsten in the UK environment report

The aims of this report are to briefly review the literature concerning tungsten in the environment, identify a suitable UK range where tungsten is used, undertake a sampling exercise at that range and summarise the findings in order to indicate whether there are potential issues with the use of tungsten on firing ranges in the UK.


Date: 3 Jul 07

Maximising Benefit from Defence Research

A review of defence research and technology for alignment, quality and exploitation


Date: 3 Oct 06

Defence Technology Strategy 2006

Today the UK faces adversaries whose tactics change rapidly and employ ever more varied advanced and innovative technologies. This demands rapid evolution in our response, both tactically and in the technologies we deploy to combat the threats. We must therefore continuously examine the balance and quantity of our research and development (R&D) investment to meet these changing circumstances.

Scientific understanding and the technologies that emerge from this improved knowledge are growing at an ever increasing pace and offer a wide diversity of solutions to this evolving threat environment. Our task is to anticipate, prepare and meet the forthcoming challenges by being highly innovative, agile and flexible in our approach to defence science and technology based R&D. This must be complemented by rapid exploitation to yield military advantage with an ever increasing tempo.

In the Defence Industrial Strategy (DIS)we have reviewed our approach to R&D. Through this Defence Technology Strategy (DTS) for the first time MOD openly publishes its priorities for R&D, funding, skills, improved processes, opportunities and areas for international research collaboration.


Date: 7 Apr 06