MOD Updates JSP 940 Quality Policy for Defence Acquisition
MOD has published an updated version of JSP 940, its quality policy covering assurance of acquisition, engineering, and logistics support across defence capability delivery. Any supplier working on MOD programmes is expected to align with this policy, and primes will typically flow it down through supply chain contracts. If you are entering new frameworks or responding to tenders, your quality management approach will be assessed against this standard.
Source →LOSA Guidance Published: Land Integration Architecture Now Documented
MOD has published guidance on Land Open Systems Architecture (LOSA), its approach to supporting land capability integration. This sets out the architecture framework that land systems suppliers will need to understand to integrate their products into broader capability programmes. If you are working on land systems, vetronics, C2, or any platform-level integration, this document defines the interoperability expectations you will be assessed against.
Source →BAE Systems Passenger Checks Contract Extended to £14.98M
A supporting passenger checks contract held by BAE Systems has been extended by six months under Regulation 72(1)(b), with the total anticipated value rising to £14.98M. This is a direct extension to an incumbent, so there is no immediate open opportunity. The extension suggests the follow-on procurement has not yet been structured, which means a recompete or new framework call is likely in the medium term for suppliers with relevant biometric, identity verification, or border security capability.
Source →NATO Publishes First Public Resilience Requirements
NATO has published its resilience requirements for the first time, setting out how Allies should prepare for crises and keep essential services running. For UK SMEs working in continuity, critical infrastructure protection, communications resilience, or civil-military integration, this document now provides a public baseline against which capability gaps can be mapped. MOD and government departments are likely to reference these requirements when scoping future resilience-related procurements and innovation challenges.
Source →PHASA-35 Selected as Platform for Ground-Based Power Beaming Demo
BAE's PHASA-35 solar stratospheric drone has been selected as the flight demonstration platform for a power beaming technology designed to keep high-altitude uncrewed aircraft flying through night and winter. Details on the programme structure and funding route are limited in the signal. For SMEs working in directed energy, persistent ISR, uncrewed systems, or high-altitude platforms, this indicates active UK development work in power beaming and HAPS capability that may generate supplier opportunities downstream.
Source →Today's signals point toward MOD tightening its architectural and quality frameworks across land and acquisition programmes, while early-stage technology development in uncrewed systems and resilience continues to build out the pipeline for future SME-relevant competitions.