Stuart Laws
04/07/2025

UK Defence Innovation – UKDI

By Gordon Fong

The UK government has announced the launch of an organisation tasked with bring technological innovations to the armed forces, at pace.

UK Strategic Command is also being renamed as the Cyber & Specialist Operations Command (CSOC) from 1 September 2025. This shows very clearly the importance of cyber as part of the military mission of today.

Stuart Laws, Innovation Lead at MOD, was at the Battlelab on the Dorset Innovation Park, and gave us his thoughts on what it could all mean. Early thoughts as it was only days old in terms of the announcement.

We were asked not to share the slides as publicly available information will be released soon.

The video is a summary of the South West Regional Defence and Security Cluster event that brought 180 people, to the middle of Dorset. The largest by the cluster yet.