Britain’s finance minister Rachel Reeves announced plans to make the country a “defence industrial superpower” by allocating an additional 2.2 billion pounds to the sector, prioritizing new technology and innovation such as drones and AI. Reeves aims to reform the procurement system to give small companies better access to defence contracts and set aside 400 million pounds for UK defence innovation, emphasizing the importance of this investment in a more insecure world.
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