A new alliance between the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and High Value Manufacturing (HVM) Catapult will grow the defence industrial base to protect UK interests against emerging global threats.
AIRTO member HVM Catapult is a national innovation hub which helps individual businesses and supply chains develop technology to take forward their ideas for products and production processes, from concept through to commercialisation.
HVM Catapult will support the alliance by providing access to state-of-the-art research and development facilities and market insights to harness new defence plans and deliver the ambitions of the DIS with industry and supply chains, academia and expert partners.
The alliance is supported by a significant increase in R&D spend by the MOD, which will create more certainty for private investors to invest in the defence industrial sector in often overlooked communities in the UK, creating new jobs and regional economic growth.
