Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the answer of 8 September 2026 to question 23363 on Defence Equipment: Training, for what reason the delivery of OpNET to the Land environment was not fully completed in May 2026.

Delays to OpNET delivery in the Land environment have primarily arisen from the greater-than-anticipated complexity of building, integrating and assuring operational nodes across the Defence estate. Challenges with product quality, system integration, documentation and acceptance activity extended delivery timelines. The programme has since implemented improvements to quality assurance, build automation and delivery processes to address these issues and improve delivery performance.