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2024 Agenda | Defence Transformation Conference

Join us for Defence Transformation 2024 in London, UK on 24 - 26 September 2024, as we welcome an audience of military leaders, government officials, defence consultants, and industry experts to discuss key issues including:The importance of investing in people ...

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Defence Transformation | 2024 Attendee Snapshot

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UK Technological Priorities Summary | Defence Transformation

This infographic covers all the significant technologies the UK MoD is looking to invest in; these include artificial intelligence, CBRN, C4ISR, and more. Investments in these technologies and innovations have become especially important as they are crucial in achieving battlefield advantages in a more technologically disruptive world. This piece: Summaries...

How to get your innovative technology onto the battlefield: A step-by-step guide to doing business with the UK MoD

Innovation is one of the UK MoD’s main priorities. With current conflicts and rising tensions, the UK forces are doing everything in their power to ensure that its warfighters hold the advantage on the battlefield; this includes the fielding of new innovations. Since innovations can come from anywhere, the MoD...

Accessible, Stable, Purposeful: Redefining the Army Career Path Interview with Brigadier James Cook OBE PHD

As society changes, enterprises that hope to employ and retain its members must change with it. In an increasingly complex world, the UK Army is committed to protecting the interests of the UK, but to do so effectively, it needs enough qualified people to do the job. In this interview,...

Will Green, (former) Head of Defence Innovation Unit: Innovating for future Defence Transformation

Read an exclusive speaker presentation from Will Green, (former) Head of Defence Innovation Unit, presented at the previous Defence Transformation conference (Previously known as Disruptive Technology for Defence Transformation) and learn about:1. An overview of the UK MoD’s innovation strategies2. Success stories and lessons learned3. Looking to the futureDownload the presentation...

Articles & Reports

Robotics/UGV Market Report 2023

Advances in software, sensors and communications have made viable the greater use of UGVs and robotics on the battlefield. This market report: Details global expenditures on UGVs Identifies trends in the UGV domain Delves into the most significant UGV programmes worldwide

Data and the Data Warrior: Empowering the Decision Maker Through Data Driven Culture

The UK has embarked on creating a Data-Driven Culture for its MoD. Off the back of a survey released earlier this year, we explore what this means for the MoD as an organisation. You cannot have a competitive Data-Driven Culture without digitalisation, as a result, we also explore the digitization...

Show me The Money; Cheat Sheet to Governmental Funding in the EU and UK

While governments try to incite innovation through a number of funding initiatives, it might be difficult to keep track of all the processes and criteria necessary to know what one has to do to access funding. To help with this endeavour Defence IQ has produced a cheat sheet for EU...

Digitisation in Defence-APPIAN

In this article Appian delves into the opportunities automation, and low-code can offer the defence domain and how they represent a viable alternative to modernising “complex and inflexible” legacy software. By adopting its “high-speed, low code” philosophy, Appian argues that there are substantial benefits for operations and logistics. 

Interviews

Accelerating Future Armour Technologies, Interview with James Gavin Future Capability Head, DE&S UK MoD

The FCG plays an integral role in integrating some of the most cutting-edge technologies in the market into the defence domain. James Gavin gives insight into how the FCG operates and how start-ups can play a more significant role in defence. This interview: Describes the relationship between the FCG and...

Empowering UK Innovation Interview with Mr William Green, Head Innovation Directorate UK MoD

Defence has been a great source of innovation for centuries, but the question on how to best exploit this remains. In this interview, William Green shares his views as the Head of the Innovation directorate on best practices but also on the challenges of creating an MoD culture of innovation....

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