Overview
- The new Energetics Information Notice tells bidders to plan for minimal routine UK demand, with exports and civilian markets expected to provide most long‑term orders.
- Companies are advised that MoD money will not be the majority of project finance, with proposals needing commercial viability and backing from private investment.
- A Planned Procurement Note has been published outlining multi‑year investments and nine priority materials for sovereign production, including key explosives and propellants.
- Thirteen locations have been identified across the UK, engineering design work for the first plant is under way, and the government expects industry to break ground next year.
- The push coincides with MPs warning the UK lacks a homeland‑defence plan, as ministers tout at least 1,000 jobs and open two new drone facilities in Plymouth and Swindon.