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Innovating for Defence

Innovation in defence is vital to UK national security

 

NCC has worked in partnership with defence customers since its inception. A Centre of Excellence for Defence Innovation, we have an established national role in delivering cutting-edge products and technologies that address mission-critical challenges. This includes accelerating the development of advanced materials, digital engineering, process innovation and systems integration. 

Located in the UK’s largest defence cluster, we are an innovation and development partner to industry and government. We are investing in building new (open and secure) innovation capabilities across our focus areas to deliver a truly unique capability. 

In partnership with other centres in the HVMC, we collaborate with the Ministry of Defence, defence industry primes and SMEs to create an integrated UK solution to future defence innovation. 

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Connect with our Defence Specialists at NCC to find out more about our world-leading innovation capabilities and how we can support your business.  

Defence Focus Areas

Main focus areas for Defence across the technology and product life cycle 

Technology Themes

We connect technology strategy to real-world delivery through our end-to-end engineering services

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Services portfolio

Applied Research & Technology Forum for UK Defence

Technology leaders showcase innovative materials & manufacturing technologies, focused on pulling fundamental innovative technology through the mid Technology Readiness Levels (TRL 4-7) as a means of showing greater application of novel research.

Our Impact

Digital engineering

MOD innovation pilot 2-year pilot delivering improvements to time, costs, and quality in submarine design & manufacture.

Our Impact

Emerging technology

Continuous tow shearing (CTS) Technology pull through project which produced iCOMAT spinout winning European Space Agency contract.

Our Impact