Defence Technology Strategy for the Demands of the 21st Century
Abstract
The UK continues to face challenging and uncertain threats to its security. Our Armed Forces must be prepared to conduct a wide range of operations from conflict prevention through counter-terrorist operations to high-intensity warfighting. To do this, it is critical that government and industrial Research and Development (R&D) investment in science and technology is properly targeted to ensure we provide effective and affordable military capability that can be maintained and developed throughout its life. This Defence Technology Strategy (DTS) provides the clarity and direction needed for success by describing the underpinning technologies that are important to Defence. For the first time we are publishing an unclassified, openly available document setting out the MOD's priorities for the science and research community. This DTS provides direction on where we should focus our research and how we must push promising research into a development pipeline and on to exploitation. It identifies those areas that are key to our national interests; where we could meet our defence needs through collaboration; and where we might rely on off-the-shelf purchase from the global supply base. It is a major step forward in the actions we must take to maintain R&D investment at an appropriate level in those areas that are key to defence capability and national competitiveness. We now need to work together to develop this template in collaboration with industry and the university sector to ensure the UK maintains a strong research base in these areas.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2006
- Accession Number
- ADA485665
Entities
Organizations
- Ministry of Defense