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Identity

As written in the research. Data as of 28 October 2026 (edition 2.1).

official nameMinistry of Defence

short labelMoD

govuk categoryMinisterial department

govuk urlgov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-defe

headquartersMOD Main Building, Whitehall, London, SW1A 2HB, United Kingdom; postcode SW1A 2HB; lat 51.505645, lng -0.125422 (sources: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-defence ; https://api.postcodes.io/postcodes/SW1A2HB)

parent (as of 2026-10-28)none (ministerial department of HM Government)

previous parent / parent changednone

blurbThe department that runs the armed forces and buys, tests and governs the AI they use, through the Defence AI Centre, Dstl, UK Defence Innovation and the Rapid AI Delivery Taskforce.

website still shows old brandingno. The GOV.UK page shows Wes Streeting as Secretary of State for Defence and lists UK Defence Innovation and Cyber & Specialist Operations Command among its groups. Older AI pages (TF RAID guidance, the Avengers AI Labs press release) still name "the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology" as a partner.

Gaps the research left open

14Shown as gaps, never filled in by guesswork. Supplement 1 (the second pass) closed some; they are listed below.

MOD Chief Scientific Adviser: not named on the MOD organisation page; the GOV.UK search API returned server errors for three queries on this (28 October 2026). Record GOV-MOD-044 left unverified.
Defence Digital organisation page (https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/defence-digital) returned a client error on 28 October 2026; its parent (Strategic Command vs NAD Group) is inferred from the CDIO appointment release only.
Defence Industrial Strategy 2025 AI items: the 112-page PDF returned as binary and could not be read; the landing page carries no AI text. Only the strategy itself is recorded.
Strategic Defence Review 2025: the full HTML was read; "Defence AI Investment Fund" appears in Section 1 but no amount is given. Recommendation numbers specific to AI were not visible beyond Recommendation 5 (digital targeting web).
Palantir £240m contract: confirmed on Find a Tender (£240.6m, 1 April 2026 to 31 March 2029). The description says "data analytics capabilities"; the notice does not use the word AI. No GOV.UK/MOD press release about the £240.6m contract was found.
Anduril and Helsing MOD contracts: not found on Find a Tender in this session (the FTS keyword search URL returned unfiltered results). Not recorded.
"Drone wall": no MOD source found; not recorded. Project ASGARD recorded only from the Dstl Digital Targeting Web case study.
NATO AI strategy and the UK's role: no MOD GOV.UK page found via the search API; not recorded. AUKUS Pillar 2 is recorded from the RAAIT trial and SDR text.
Dstl "AI for defence" research calls: the Dstl AI capability page lists R-Cloud, Serapis and Astrid frameworks but no open AI call; the only live competition opened was Novel Autonomy and Robotics (Phase 1) (GOV-MOD-048), which does not use the word AI. No Dstl call titled "AI for defence" was found.
Dstl–Google Cloud MOU and Microsoft responsible-AI work: mentioned on the Dstl AI capability page and DAIC page only; the MOU pages were not opened, so no separate record.
MOD AI Ethics Advisory Panel: linked from the JSP 936 page; the panel page was not opened.
MI5 and SIS: no public AI material sought or found; not recorded.
DAIC head: Commodore Rachel Singleton is named in August 2024 and November 2025 releases; no 2026 confirmation found.
Hourly web-fetch allowance was exhausted at about 12:25 UTC on 28 October 2026 while fetching the Seoul Declaration page; the FCDO section below records where fetching resumed.

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