Defence
Building a modern defence supply chain that’s adaptive, robust and ready for anything.
Retaining an adaptive edge for UK defence.
The global security landscape never stands still. So there’s an ever-evolving need to continually build and refine a modern defence supply chain that can outpace adversaries, and retain an adaptive edge in protecting the UK’s long-term national security.
As the UK defence industry’s Manufacturing Centre of Expertise, we work closely with the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD), collaborating with defence manufacturers and SMEs, to provide the innovation and inspiration that helps the UK to break new ground in the development of flexible supply chains, future skills and workforce strategy.
The resulting ambition is to enable the fastest response to new and emerging threats, whilst retaining resilience and readiness in an increasingly unstable and challenging environment.
Embracing innovation where it’s needed most
Increased production rates. Reduced lead times. Improved cost efficiency. These challenges dictate the need for new technologies, pre-production optimisation, and reduction of low-volume product manufacturing processes.
By blending innovative thinking with pioneering manufacturing processes, we’re supporting the UK defence sector to continually hone and enhance a sustainable defence supply chain, to rapidly reduce lead time to front line operations, to relentlessly develop new skills and capabilities, whilst adopting innovation throughout manufacturing practice and product development.
Walk through the doors of MTC, and you’re walking into a rare and ready-made innovation, technology and training ecosystem, with all the attributes needed for the seamless acceleration of innovation across the UK defence sector.
Creating a sustainable advantage in security
From initial engagement through to project delivery, we work with organisations of all sizes across a wide range of technology themes, united in our ambition to bring long-term value, innovation and advantage to the UK defence supply chain.
Drawing on an independent spirit and fierce focus on delivering meaningful and measurable progress across the defence sector, within the MTC, across our partners, and through a spirit of bold collaboration, we’re confident of overcoming any obstacle to progress. These can include:
