How governments decide what to buy and how they buy it. Coverage follows procurement agencies and major programmes, contract awards and budgets, acquisition reform aimed at software, export controls, and the alliance and EU frameworks that shape demand.
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Leaders launched an Alliance for the Future at their Montréal summit on 30 October, with negotiations on Canadian access to Galileo services and exploratory talks on IRIS² among its space measures.
The radar, bought through cooperation with the Netherlands, is intended mainly to locate hostile indirect-fire positions for the Lithuanian Armed Forces' national division.
The council granted Acceptance of Necessity to capital acquisitions for all three services, with about 82 per cent of the procurement to come from Indian industry.
The modification to a prototype Other Transaction Agreement is mainly for the delivery of autonomous underwater vehicles and associated components.
The plan sets out the first phase of cooperation under the UK–Poland Security and Defence Partnership Treaty, from air defence missiles to closer procurement coordination.
The European Commission opened a second call under its Security Action for Europe loan instrument, open to all Member States and with Ukraine cooperation encouraged.
The Ministry of Defence and HM Treasury will require overseas suppliers on qualifying contracts to deliver benefits in the UK, with a new central Offset Authority to agree and monitor them.