UK MOD announces Defence Technology Plan

Baroness Taylor, Minister for Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) has announced the development of a Defence Technology Plan (DTP) today, Tuesday 13 November 2007.

The DTP will take the Defence Technology Strategy forward and provide clear direction to the Research and Development (R&D) community, allowing industry and academia to better direct investment in defence science and technology. The DTP will set out the research programme by presenting technological roadmaps of R&D objectives. The DTP aims to be fully up and running by late 2008.

Baroness Taylor, Minister for DE&S:

MOD Defence Technology Strategy (Image © MOD) - (Download PDF file)

We are taking the Defence Technology Strategy forward by developing the Defence Technology Plan. This plan will enable transparent prioritisation and coherence across MOD's R&D programme by setting out the research programme in the form of technology roadmaps derived from key R&D objectives. It will form the basis of our national and international partnerships with academia, industry and allies.

The DTP will be a clear plan starting with research goals based on capability requirements, showing how the goals will be met by R&D activity. MOD is developing the plan in consultation with the wider stakeholder community. DTP will have a dynamic online format, allowing regular updates when necessary. MOD published the Defence Technology Strategy in October 2006.

R&D Staff include Science Innovation Technology (SIT), who manage approximately £500m of the Research budget, DE&S, who manage some £2bn of project expenditure associated with Development, Equipment Capability Customer (ECC), the military 'customer' organisation for future equipment, and the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl).

Source: UK MOD

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