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Skynet: Procurement

Question for Ministry of Defence

UIN 257807, tabled on 23 May 2019

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps her Department is taking to include SMEs in the SKYNET programme.

Answered on

5 June 2019

The Department is following the Small to Medium Enterprise principles outlined in the National Security Through Technology 2012 white paper. The SKYNET 6 Programme is taking a very proactive approach to incentivise and incorporate SMEs across the whole programme.

The current SKYNET 5 programme already exceeds the 25% SME target which provides a strong foundation for the SKYNET 6 programme.

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