The defense industry would struggle to meet customer demands in Europe if spending takes off in the face of pressure from the US for other member states to take a fair share of the spending burden and meet NATO’s spending commitment targe
Government commitments based on last year’s strategic defense and security review (SDSR) might have to be revised if economic predictions were too optimistic, according to an analyst.
The British Ministry of Defence has inadvertently published the target date by which it hopes to achieve sufficient maturity on the program to take forward the delayed Type 26 manufacturing phase.
A parliamentary report said the British government failed to come clean on exactly what is included in the definitive defense budget both now and in the past.
Former DE&S chief executive, Sir Bernard Gray, has been recruited by the MoD to evaluate whether a major reform effort pursued by the Conservative government since it came to office in 2010 has been effective.