The strategy centers on leading this transformation through a "focused, capital-efficient strategy centred on four technology pillars: Critical Infrastructure Defence, AI Agents for Defence Operations, Information & Influence Warfare, and Drone Warfare & Aggregation." The company projects a significant addressable software market, estimated to "exceed USD 90b by 2030 across our four pillars," driven by escalating global military spending and European sovereign-tech budgets. The ongoing conflict in Ukraine is presented as a crucial "live testbed" validating the company's strategic focu…

1. Executive Summary This Open Framework serves as the primary delivery mechanism for ASGARD, the British Army's flagship Transformative Capability Initiative (TCI), directly supporting the Chief of General Staff's (CGS) Growth Through Transformation (GTT) strategy. The framework, estimated at £180,000,000 (excluding VAT) over four core years with potential extensions to six years, focuses on the "Decide" element of the target acquisition cycle by leveraging modern Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning (AI/ML) technologies. It is structured into five distinct lots, with a strong emphasi…

The CST, an advisory body to the Prime Minister, believes the UK has a unique opportunity to become a global leader in this field with proper investment and infrastructure. The report includes six key recommendations focusing on workforce development, funding, strategic objectives, and infrastructure access to support the growth of a sovereign UK AI chip sector.

This initiative involves a partnership with London-based Nscale Global Holdings, which previously committed to significant UK data center investments. The move reflects a growing demand for digital infrastructure driven by artificial intelligence and aims to address European concerns about AI development lagging behind the US and China. These investments are part of OpenAI's larger strategy to expand its commercial operations and data center projects internationally, despite facing stricter regulations in Europe.

In a powerful boost to the UK economy, the figures which cover the 2024/25 financial year, show a 6% rise in real terms expenditure bringing the total to £31.7 billion.  In an increasingly unstable and volatile world, this includes a 21% uplift to investment in the Weapons and Ammunition sector after inflation, so the UK is resilient and responsive to any challenge. 

The agreement is being signed this week at Europe’s largest defence exhibition, DSEI in London, and is the latest innovative partnership between European defence tech companies developing sovereign capabilities in Europe, for Europe. By combining their expertise, the two companies are strengthening the continent’s digital defence industrial base, providing the capability and capacity required for quicker decisions, state-of-the-art targeting, and precision mass strike capabilities. This will allow military leaders to build up their capacity in this area and adopt lessons from Ukraine.

In this Ai Defence Journal Insights Report we read the ‘BAE Systems Contribution’ report. The ‘BAE Systems Contribution’ report comes soon after the UK’s Strategic Defence Review was announced at BAE Systems’ site in Glasgow, where the Prime Minister outlined a plan to create: “A defence dividend – that will be felt in the pockets of working people and the prosperity of the country, securing growth for generations to come.”

 This report, compiled by the NATO S&T Organization (STO), analyses six socio-technical "Macro Trends" anticipated to shape the technology landscape and influence NATO's strategic environment from 2025 to 2045. These trends are: Evolving Competition Areas, Race for AI and Quantum Superiority, Biotechnology Revolution, Resource Divide, Fragmenting Public Trust, and Technology Integration & Dependencies. The report emphasizes the increasing influence of science and technology (S&T) on geopolitics and strategic decision-making, highlighting the need for NATO and its Allies to underst…

In this Ai Defence Journal Insights report, we read and analyse Strategy&'s, the global strategy consultancy of PwC, report, Navigating the AI revolution in defense.