Defence Investment Plan Hub
The Defence Investment Plan (DIP), published 30 June 2026 by the MOD and HM Treasury, is the funding and delivery roadmap for the 2025 Strategic Defence Review. It commits £298bn over four years (including £15bn of new money), lifting UK defence spending from £54bn to nearly £80bn a year by 2029 — 2.7% of GDP, the highest in three decades, on a path to NATO's 5% target by 2035.
Headline allocations: £63bn+ for the nuclear deterrent (Dreadnought, SSN-AUKUS, new warhead), £26bn for naval base upgrades (Project Royal Oak), £8bn+ for the GCAP stealth fighter, £11bn for munitions and six new energetics factories, and a growing slice — drones, AI-driven targeting, cyber — for non-traditional capability areas. It also creates a National Armaments Director Group and UK Defence Innovation to speed up procurement, plus a £500m Transformation Fund and £50bn export finance facility aimed partly at SMEs.
The Defence Investment Plan is reshaping how — and where — £298bn of defence spend will flow over the next four years. Our Defence Investment Plan Hub brings together everything you need to stay on top of it: the latest news and analysis, in-depth blogs, market reports, and webinars, plus upcoming events where you can meet the buyers and primes shaping delivery. It's your single destination for cutting through the noise and understanding what the DIP means for your business.
From Policy to Pipeline
Want to see where the DIP's £298bn is landing? Our latest market intelligence report, From Policy to Pipeline, maps the Defence Investment Plan's eleven capability areas against live DCI tender, notice and award data — testing what's been committed against what's already moving in the market. Among the findings: 82% of captured award value is still sitting with pre-DIP spend, meaning most of the new plan's money hasn't yet surfaced as competed opportunity.
Download the report to see the domain-by-domain breakdown, the SME and regional picture, and a forward watchlist of named programmes worth tracking.
Procurement News
Ministry of Defence SME Action Plan and What This Means for Suppliers
The MOD's refreshed SME Action Plan commits to a 50% rise in annual SME spend, reaching £7.5bn by summer 2028. This blog covers what's behind that figure — the new Defence Office for Small Business Growth, the SME Commercial Pathway reserving smaller contracts for SMEs, and practical steps for winning direct MOD work or Tier 2/3 subcontracting with primes.
Read the full blog →The Defence Investment Plan Is Here — and the Supply Chain Is Ready to Deliver
Published the day the DIP dropped, this blog breaks down the £298bn plan for suppliers: headline programme funding (GCAP, the nuclear deterrent, Project Royal Oak, drones and munitions), what it means practically for SMEs and mid-tier firms — jobs, lower barriers to entry, export finance — and why visibility into the tender pipeline, not just the funding announcement, is what actually converts into contracts.
Read the full blog here →Webinar
The Defence Investment Plan — Where the UK Defence Supply Chain Wins Work
The Defence Investment Plan is one of the most significant defence announcements in decades — £298bn committed, procurement reform underway, and a clear push to widen the supply chain beyond the traditional primes. But knowing the headline figures isn't the same as knowing where the opportunity actually sits, or what to do about it.
Join Prof. Andrew Schofield (Chair, North West Regional Defence and Security Cluster, and Chair of the DPRTE UK National Defence Procurement & Supply Chain Summit 2026) and defence industry specialist Kevin Mills, with market intelligence from Defence Contracts International as Official Market Intelligence Partner, for a practical breakdown of what the DIP means for suppliers right now.
You'll get:
- A clear read on the Defence Investment Plan's strategic priorities and what they signal for future procurement
- Real routes to market — how to work with primes, and where SMEs and innovative businesses can compete directly
- Live market intelligence on where demand is emerging, direct from DCI's tracked tender and award data
- Practical actions to take over the next 12 months to position your business for what's coming
This webinar is your lead-in to the DPRTE UK National Defence Procurement & Supply Chain Summit 2026 (Manchester, 22 October 2026) — where you can take these insights further, face to face with buyers, primes and policy leads shaping delivery.
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The UK's £298bn Defence Investment Plan is reshaping procurement, capability priorities and supply chain opportunity — and there's no better way to get ahead of it than face to face with the people delivering it. Join us at one of our three flagship events across the UK.
UK National Defence Procurement & Supply Chain Summit 2026
The must-attend event for anyone delivering the DIP. Get direct access to the organisations shaping future capability, commercial strategy and supply chain engagement, plus the latest procurement reform and MOD policy insight.
DPRTE 2027 Expo
Two days bringing together MOD, prime contractors and the wider supply chain — keynotes, live panels, Meet the Buyer sessions and innovation showcases, all built around where DIP-driven programmes are heading next.
Scottish Defence Procurement & Supply Chain Summit 2027
Focused on Scotland's defence and dual-use industrial base — MOD activity, prime supply chain routes, and regional capability growth for Scottish suppliers and organisations engaging with the region.
