We've reached a major milestone in implementing our new ways of working to deliver more for Defence. 📈 Increases productivity.🔄 Streamlines processes.💡 Improves how we deploy resources. This is just the start of our transformation to the new DE&S. 🔗

🚨 RAF Waddington Milestone: The Protector RG MK1 flight & training establishment is now open! It features advanced ground control stations and simulators for the first military remotely piloted aircraft, plus NATO's Flight Training Europe Campus for 17 member nations! 🤝

📸 Meet Hannah Godfroy, our expert illustrator, with the Gromit she designed and painted for Gromit Unleashed 3! Proudly supporting Bristol Children's Hospital through the Grand Appeal. Our favourite feature? Feathers McGraw hidden in the shadows. Have you seen him yet?👀

For the first time the Royal Navy has autonomous minesweeping capability to combat the threat of naval mines. Developed and manufactured in the UK by Dorset-based TKMS Atlas, the SWEEP systems safely clear sea lanes to defeat modern mine threats.

Did you know, around 30% of items in the Defence Inventory can be 3D printed? 🤔. How is 3D printing revolutionising Defence? 👉 Additive manufacturing is now producing 3d printed metal parts for frontline vehicles and equipment. ➡️ Find out more:

Our Autonomous Collaborative Platforms team ensures the smooth delivery of equipment to our armed forces, including how capabilities can be spiral developed. 💡 . 📸 StormShroud, delivered in under 6 months, provides next-gen drones with high-tech jammers to disrupt enemy radar.

An important next step as UK Defence develops the technological edge to protect our nation, and our allies. We look forward to working with, and sharing our expertise with, UKDI in future.

It was great to get together again with experts from the US for the annual CWMD Science, Tech & Acquisition forum. Together, we are strengthening our CBRN defence capabilities at a time of heightened global risk and volatility.

🚨 Have you heard about ‘always-on’ production models? . In this month’s Desider, William Freer, National Security Fellow at the Council on Geostrategy, makes the case for why the UK and other nations should consider their strategic value. Read here 👉

What’s the best thing about being a Reservist? . We spoke to some of our military Reservists at DE&S to find out more. #ArmedForcesDay

On #ArmedForcesDay, we salute all who serve. At DE&S, 1048 military personnel help deliver vital equipment worldwide. Thank you to @RoyalNavy, @RoyalMarines, @BritishArmy, @RoyalAirForce, veterans, and families for your commitment to keeping our nation safe. 🇬🇧

The Red Arrows go Green 🍃.✈ The Kings birthday celebration saw the Red Arrows using a blend of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) for propulsion, and Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) for their distinctive trademark vapour trails, for the first time in public. #FactFriday #RAF

It is three years since the UK launched Operation Interflex, the large-scale training of Ukrainian troops on British soil, supported by DE&S. Since then, this multinational effort involving partners from 13 nations, has seen close to 60,000 recruits pass through training.

Lt Gen Simon Hamilton, Deputy CEO, opens this month’s Desider with his thoughts on how DE&S and our defence partners must respond to the recommendations of the Strategic Defence Review.

RT @DefenceHQ: Beginning today, #ArmedForcesWeek reconnects the nation with those who serve. 🇬🇧. It showcases the best of military life - f….

RT @DefenceHQ: Hello Singapore, from HMS Prince Of Wales 🇬🇧🇸🇬. Singapore welcomes the UK Carrier Strike Group as it begins training and en….

#FactFriday: HMS Bristol began construction in 1967 and was commissioned in 1973 by the Royal Navy. 🚢 She served as a flagship in the 1982 Falklands War and later as a training ship. After 48 years of service, she’s now being recycled in Turkey - a sale agreed by our experts. 🤝

WATCH: HMS Venturer touches the water for the first time - a major milestone for our Type 31 programme. This would not have been possible without the expert collaboration between @Babcockplc, Industry, and our team to deliver this complex operation seamlessly. 👏. 🎥 by Babcock.

📅 3 months until the National Armaments Director (NAD) Group makes its debut at DSEI 2025 from 9-12 September 2025. Secure your place now to find out how we're maximising our war-fighters’ collective ability to operate, deter, fight, and win 👉

🚚 Delivered: 217 MAN military vehicle trucks to the @BritishArmy in six months. Under a £282m contract with @RheinmetallAG, these multipurpose trucks will allow troops to transport essentials while on operations. 500 vehicles are expected by this autumn.

📸 Type 31 HMS Venturer has completed her first entry into the water. 🗣️ "We will continue working closely with industry during this complex process, ensuring these essential ships are delivered to protect our nation's interests for decades to come." -Steve, DE&S Type 31 Lead.