More than 60 ambitious manufacturers from the West Midlands gathered recently for a special event designed to accelerate SME participation in international defence markets and strengthen the UK’s sovereign defence capability. ‘Breaking into Defence: Enter Overseas Markets with the MoD’, was delivered by Oxford Innovation Advice to address key priorities championed by Make UK Defence.

These priorities include supporting smaller manufacturers to become export-ready, building resilient domestic supply chains and ensuring UK innovation is embedded within global defence programmes. Backed by business support programmes across the West Midlands (including the Investment Readiness Programme), the event provided SMEs with direct access to MoD export specialists, global primes and regional growth advisers.

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