It has been rather difficult for SMEs to get themselves onto the defence sector supply chain. MOD’s Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE) and Innovate UK’s Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) are ways for smaller businesses to get a way in, Jim Pennycook explained to Ruari McCallion.
HMS Ambush in dock (credit BAE SYstems). The UK’s defence manufacturing industry is dominated by a small number of OEMs, led by BAE Systems and EADS, and it has, historically, been very difficult for smaller businesses to get any attention paid to their ideas. The CDE (Centre for Defence Enterprise) initiative…
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