Notes / Ares
11 July 2022
Critical Technologies and Industrial Capabilities: National Definition and Policy Implications. The United Kingdom Case
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Trevor Taylor
Professorial Research Fellow, RUSI
This paper analyses the way the UK addresses dependencies on critical technologies within the defence industry. It shows that the UK has developed a complex and exhaustive policy framework to identify key technologies, application areas and industrial capabilities for the future of British armed forces. It also details the mechanisms the British DoD set up to support the preservation and / or the development of its autonomy in these domains…