Defence Research 2010 is the only event this year where the UK MOD will present the whole of its £400 million annual research investment to industry, academia and other suppliers, alongside key members of the MOD and the Armed Services. The MOD is offering private sector businesses and organisations the opportunity to deal directly with the entire defence research community through exhibition, networking and sponsorship.

Science and technology research is needed to keep the Armed Forces one step ahead of the enemy on a battlefield shaped by technology that proliferates and changes on a weekly and monthly basis. To meet this challenge the MOD is fundamentally changing how it does business to become more agile, open and innovative. For more information on the MOD Research Programme, please see www.science.mod.uk

Defence Research 2010 is a combined conference (supplier briefing) and exhibition. It is the main event in the supplier engagement programme for MOD science and technology research and the MOD is particularly keen to develop its supplier networks to include new suppliers which are innovative, smaller scale or academic and from outside the traditional defence market.

Defence research is primarily delivered by industry and academia. From April 2010 defence research will be contracted through a new unified Programmes Office in the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) and a technology demonstrator programme in Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S). This conference and exhibition presents plans for delivering defence research in the next few years and is the only event where the programme will be discussed in its entirety.

Defence Research 2010 will draw together key decision makers working across the MOD and wider government, including Dstl, DE&S, the military customer and the Centre for Defence Enterprise. It will also incorporate suppliers ranging from Prime and Sub-contractors to SMEs, academia, research organisations and individuals.