30,000 defence jobs in South West confirmed

The Defence Secretary, Sir Michael Fallon, has revealed the Ministry of Defence spends billions of pounds with industry and supporting 30,000 local jobs in the South West, underlining the region’s importance to the UK’s security. Sir Michael revealed the figures during a visit to the Royal Marine’s base at Chivenor, where he met with personnel […]

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SSRO launches DefCARS 2 system

The SSRO has launched its new Defence Contracts Analysis and Reporting System (DefCARS 2). The new DefCARS website has launched on-schedule, and replaces the previous system (DefCARS 1), which has been in use since April 2015. DefCARS is the central system for the capture, storage and analysis of all data submitted in accordance with the […]

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Dstl competition receives over 5,000 entries

Dstl’s Kaggle competition has been a huge success, receiving over 5,000 entries, equivalent to over £2.5M in research. The data science competition was run via Kaggle, the world’s largest data science competition community. This is the first time UK Government has worked with an online community in this way. The purpose of the competition was […]

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Delivering Carrier Strike

The National Audit Office has today released its findings on the MODs Carrier Strike programme. The NAO has been investigating the MOD progress on delivering the new aircraft carriers as well as their strike capability. This will be the third report from NAO on Ministry of Defence progress, with the last report (in 2013) looking […]

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Working with the big names in defence procurement

We preview what’s on offer in DPRTE’s Supply Chain and Partnering zone. In its Ten Year Equipment Plan 2012-2022 the Ministry of Defence sets out its forecast expenditure plans worth almost £160 billion. These will deliver and support the equipment required to meet the Armed Forces’ future objectives and obligations. The Supply Chain and Partnering Knowledge […]

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Paradox solution launched by Becrypt

Becrypt, the leading cyber security specialist, has launched a new secure desktop solution. The Paradox solution was unveiled this week at CYBERUK 2017, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)’s cyber security and IA event. Designed to provide an uncompromised combination of security, usability and efficiency, the Paradox solution will assist organisations moving to cloud, virtualised […]

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Design Build/Design Bid Build MATOC Requirement

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Kansas City District (NWK), intends to issue a solicitation for Design-Build and Design-Bid-Build construction services. This is a two Phase Best Value Tradeoff solicitation for offers for Firm Fixed-Price Multiple Award

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Navy Greens!

Portsmouth Naval Base is set to turn from Navy Blue to Green in its latest environmental drive. The base has welcomed a new fleet of electric vans alongside the introduction of a Loan Bike Scheme, as part of transport and health initiatives being implemented at the base. The drive will help cut down on congestion, […]

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NCSC Chief warns UK politicians to improve cyber security

With the ramifications of a possible General Election, second Scottish Referendum and the complicated withdrawal from the EU currently on the agenda, the NCSC is hoping to avoid the series of embarrassing cyber breaches prevalent within the US Presidential Election, by offering UK’s political parties assistance with their cyber security. Ciaran Martin, CEO of the […]

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Vulnerability Detection

The purpose of this document is to set out the requirements of awarding authority for the provision of the capability to detect security vulnerabilities in key systems and infrastructure.
The awarding authority operates dual datacentres hosting central s

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NATO boss says increased spending vital to US relationship

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has published his annual report and underlined the importance of increasing defence budgets in face of the shifting security landscape. The report highlighted how the alliance had made strides towards increasing its spending on defence with 23 allies increasing their expenditure in real terms by 3.8 %, which added up to […]

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