News and communications

DASA seeks novel methods of testing and evaluating for the future of defence

• Updated: 26 April 2024

Her work as a senior scientist involves using established imaging techniques and applying them in novel ways to real world situations, to help save lives.

• Updated: 8 March 2024

More than 100 personnel from the British Army and Royal Navy have been involved in a complex operation to remove a WW2 bomb discovered at a residential property

• Updated: 23 February 2024

Defence Secretary Grant Shapps travelled to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to drive forward work to maintain regional stability.

• Updated: 26 October 2023

The Defence Infrastructure Organisation is working with Cornwall Wildlife Trust and the British Army to improve sand dune wildlife at the Penhale Training Area.

• Updated: 25 October 2023

The team have been recognised as ‘the best place to work in digital’ at the Digital Technology Leaders Awards, beating other organisations.

• Updated: 21 July 2023

Strategic Command personnel worked through the night yesterday in London in preparation for The Kings Coronation.

• Updated: 4 May 2023

Lieutenant General Copinger-Symes talks about his role in the Coronation

• Updated: 4 May 2023

Defence Medical Services (DMS), part of Strategic Command, will make a significant contribution to the running of the Coronation of HM King Charles III.

• Updated: 3 May 2023

More than 1,000 personnel have been trained in recent weeks to provide cover for ambulance trusts, Border Force, and fire and rescue services.

• Updated: 23 December 2022

A Royal Air Force flypast led by an all-female crew will roar on the Lionesses from the skies above Wembley ahead of the UEFA Women’s Euro 2022 final today.

• Updated: 31 July 2022

Ukraine’s Volodymyr Havrylov and UK Armed Forces Minister James Heappey met Ukrainian sailors being trained by the Royal Navy in Scotland and visited infantry training by the Army in England.

• Updated: 22 July 2022

Defence medics supporting all four nations of the United Kingdom as part of Operation Rescript

• Updated: 31 January 2022

Two hundred Armed Forces personnel have been made available to support the NHS in London amid staff shortages due to Covid-19. The Ministry of Defence will provide 40 Defence medics and 160 general duty personnel to support …

• Updated: 7 January 2022

An extra 184 personnel have been made available to support the Welsh Ambulance Service NHS Trust from 4 January, taking the total number to 313.

• Updated: 23 December 2021

98 personnel have been made available and will make up 14 teams of vaccinators to provide surge support to increase capacity

• Updated: 16 December 2021

More than 750 Armed Forces personnel will be administering Covid-19 vaccines and helping with planning to maximise the effectiveness of the booster rollout

• Updated: 13 December 2021

Admiral Sir Tony Radakin KCB ADC, Chief of the Defence Staff Speech to the Royal United Services Institute

• Updated: 7 December 2021

297 personnel from the British Army and Royal Marines are supporting communities impacted by the storm by conducting door-to-door checks on vulnerable people.

• Updated: 4 December 2021

The British Army has unveiled ‘Future Soldier’ today, its most radical transformation programme in over 20 years.

• Updated: 25 November 2021