Accelerating the pace of technical exploitation

The UK’s Strategic Defence Review 2025 underscores an era of accelerated technological transformation in defence, driven by the urgency of modern threats and lessons from contemporary conflict. With warfare increasingly shaped by technological advancements, the Review commits to making the UK a leading tech-enabled defence power by 2035.

Case studies

exploitation of early stage research

Customer: Dstl

To prepare Defence for the future and finding or creating game changing Science and Technology (S&T), Dstl’s Futures Engine Room has a vision to generate signals about the future of science and technology, investigate them, validate them, and find them a home or to choose not to.

R&D Exploitation Engine

Customer: Futures Lab

With the increasing acceleration of technological change, the traditional procurement process required some adaptation to help Defence Innovation stakeholders be able to make informed decisions on where to allocate funds to existing Research & Development (R&D) or Demonstrator projects.