MOD Innovation Strategy

The MOD Innovation Strategy was launched in December 2007. It builds on the Defence White Paper published in 2005 as the Defence Industrial Strategy (DIS) (Cm6697). The DIS set out a commitment to achieve a better understanding of the innovation process within the defence supply chain.

The new Innovation Strategy identifies the main challenges to innovation in delivery of our defence capability. It expresses actions to address these challenges in terms of five distinct pillars.

These pillars show the MoD intent to articulate its capability needs better, provide transparency in how it translates these needs and aspirations through to delivery of capability, highlight its commitment to open architectures which will in turn foster insertion of new or improved technology, demonstrate the commitment to new business models that provide incentives for both customers and suppliers to achieve greater innovation, and communicate the MoD desire to maintain the pace of MOD's acquisition processes.