uk defence journal

Babcock’s John Howie described the current moment as one of three overlapping inflection points, the first being the changed geopolitical landscape, the second being the rapid emergence of low-cost autonomous technology from Ukraine that was forcing the industry to ask fundamental questions about what product development should look like, and the third being the financial consequence of both, saying the UK was waiting “with bated breath” for the Defence Investment Plan and that the large primes were already reorienting around AI, autonomy and uncrewed platforms but that this “will not gather f