March 28, 2017

RISC 10th anniversary

RISC 10th anniversary

10 Years This week we are celebrating the UK’s Security and Resilience Industry Suppliers Community (RISC) tenth anniversary. Established on 29 March 2007 […]

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March 22, 2017

Access to the skills to succeed post-Brexit

Access to the skills to succeed post-Brexit

At the start of March we celebrated the 10th anniversary of National Apprenticeship Week. The UK’s Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space sectors […]

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March 15, 2017

MPs Highlight Importance of Space Sector in BEIS Oral Questions

MPs Highlight Importance of Space Sector in BEIS Oral Questions

Yesterday in the House of Commons, MPs used BEIS oral questions to raise the importance of the UK Space sector and what […]

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March 14, 2017

Lords EU Committee highlight Brexit implications for major manufacturing sectors

Lords EU Committee highlight Brexit implications for major manufacturing sectors

A committee of cross-party Peers has highlighted a number of priority issues for the UK’s Aerospace, Defence, Security and Space industries as […]

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March 10, 2017

Allan E Cook CBE: A Success Story #NAW2017

Allan E Cook CBE: A Success Story #NAW2017

National Apprenticeship Week aims to celebrate apprentices and recognise the role of apprenticeships in providing a ladder of opportunity; they are a […]

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March 8, 2017

Brexit: The elephant in the Budget

Brexit: The elephant in the Budget

The Chancellor’s first and last Spring Budget was always going to be a placeholder until the new Autumn Budget expected later this […]

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Women Apprenticeships in STEM #NAW2017 #IWD2017

Women Apprenticeships in STEM #NAW2017 #IWD2017

As well as it being National Apprenticeship Week, today we also celebrate International Women’s Day, which is a global day celebrating the […]

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March 7, 2017

BAE Champions Diversity in Apprenticeships #NAW2017

BAE Champions Diversity in Apprenticeships #NAW2017

The Department for Education recently announced that a group of employers have come together to help promote diversity within apprenticeships. The Apprenticeship […]

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February 28, 2017

5 questions that matter to UK companies ahead of Trump’s speech to Congress

5 questions that matter to UK companies ahead of Trump’s speech to Congress

Tonight, President Trump will deliver his first speech to a joint session of Congress. While it is not technically a State of […]

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February 27, 2017

Refreshing Defence Industrial Policy

Refreshing Defence Industrial Policy

As part of the Strategic Defence and Security Review 2015 (SDSR) , the Government committed to develop a refreshed defence industrial policy. Given the […]

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February 21, 2017

Spaceflight Bill: A (Rocket) Boost for UK Space Sector

Spaceflight Bill: A (Rocket) Boost for UK Space Sector

Today the government have published the draft Spaceflight Bill which will enable spaceflight from the UK by 2020. This announcement comes as the […]

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February 9, 2017

New justice executive agency: Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service

New justice executive agency: Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service

In a written statement to Parliament, the Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss MP, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice on Her […]

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January 26, 2017

Reaching A New ‘Peake’ For UK Space Industry

Reaching A New ‘Peake’ For UK Space Industry

Today Business Secretary Greg Clark announced that Tim Peake will make a second ESA (European Space Agency) mission to the International Space […]

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January 25, 2017

Responding to the Industrial Strategy Green Paper

Responding to the Industrial Strategy Green Paper

By Paul Everitt, ADS Group Chief Executive The government has launched its Green Paper on modern industrial strategy; a major statement of […]

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January 18, 2017

UK Fire and Resilience Offer

UK Fire and Resilience Offer

The Chief Fire Officers Association (CFOA) and DIT Defence and Security Organisation (DSO) have jointly worked to identify and capture the full […]

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