Satellite Communications: Procurement
(asked on 23rd May 2019) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps her Department is taking to include SMEs in the SKYNET programme.
This question was answered on 5th June 2019
The Department is following the Small to Medium Enterprise principles outlined in the National Security Through Technology 2012 white paper. The SKYNET 6 Programme is taking a very proactive approach to incentivise and incorporate SMEs across the whole programme.
The current SKYNET 5 programme already exceeds the 25% SME target which provides a strong foundation for the SKYNET 6 programme.