South West Defence Roundtable
Location:
Westminster
Date:
Mon, 23 Mar 2026
South West Defence Roundtable
James Neely, Strategic Partnerships Director (Defence and Space) at NCC will join parliamentarians, defence primes, SMEs, clusters, academics, and MOD to discuss how the UK can strengthen and grow its defence industrial base—with a focus on regional strengths, supply-chain resilience, innovation, and skills.
Defence capability in the South West
The South West is home to critical defence assets and to one of the UK’s most significant concentrations of defence capability, spanning shipbuilding and deep maintenance, autonomous systems, advanced materials, rotary aviation, space and cyber, research institutions, and specialised innovation assets.