Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to recommendation 5 of the Strategic Defence Review: Making Britain Safer: secure at home, strong abroad, published on 2 June 2025, when he plans to launch a tender to deliver the Digital Targeting Web.

The Digital Targeting Web is not a single piece of equipment or software with a single supplier, but an ecosystem that will bring together the current disparate multitude of targeting systems and software into a secure and efficiently connected, cross-classification, capability that will enable warfighting at pace and scale across all 5 operational domains on the Digital Backbone.

It will easily enable the introduction of emerging and novel technology, improve data-standardisation to enable better data and information sharing so that Defence has a much-improved ability to understand and shape the battlespace. Through the automation of processes, and the more timely provision of targeting data to weapon systems, the DTW will ensure the end-to-end targeting cycle is accelerated to better support commanders and provide UK Defence with a warfighting advantage over our adversaries. There will be no ‘single supplier’ nor tender to deliver the Digital Targeting Web, but a series of accelerators will be spun up to achieve the DTW. The first industry day has been set up for 18 July 2025 where industry can find out more about the approach and potential opportunities.