The Ministry of Defence intends to place a contract for the prototyping of an artificial intelligence decision-support capability, known as Project Strong, according to a transparency notice published on 4 June 2026.<\/p>\n
The notice describes the work as the prototyping of an integrated capability that fuses intelligence into a single analytical platform, generates courses of action, and supports the rapid, human-controlled deployment of authorised effects across the cyber, information and supply-chain domains.<\/p>\n
\u201cProject STRONG is the prototyping of an integrated capability that fuses intelligence into a single analytical platform, generates Courses of Action, and supports rapid, human-controlled deployment of authorised effects across cyber, information and supply-chain domains,\u201d the notice states. The capability is intended, in the notice\u2019s words, to operate \u201cat the forefront of risk management to dynamically adjustment responses to the real time operating environment\u201d, drawing on data sources it describes as \u201chighly sensitive and unable to be shared more broadly\u201d.<\/p>\n
The contract is to go to Defence Holdings PLC, a London-registered firm the notice lists as a small or medium-sized enterprise. It is worth just under \u00a3227,000 before VAT, a modest sum that falls below the threshold at which open competition would normally be required, and covers three months of work from the middle of June.<\/p>\n
The contract is to be awarded directly, without competition, under Schedule 5 of the Procurement Act 2023 and the procurement\u2019s defence and security regime, using a provision covering prototypes and development. The transparency notice is the step a contracting authority publishes to declare its intention to make a direct award before signing.<\/p>\n
The Ministry of Defence said it was seeking to test the suitability and feasibility of the supplier\u2019s novel service offering at a low technical readiness level. \u201cThe activity is undertaken is of limited scope and to inform future delivery decisions and does not constitute full scale rollout or commitment,\u201d the notice states, adding that the work \u201cshould be considered a minimum level of experimentation \/ study\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ministry of Defence intends to place a contract for the prototyping of an artificial intelligence decision-support capability,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-623034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}