Written question asked by Lord Taylor of Warwick (Non-affiliated) on Tuesday, 9 June 2026, in the House of Lords. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 23 June 2026. It was answered by Lord Coaker (Labour) on Tuesday, 23 June 2026 on behalf of the Ministry of Defence.

Defence: Procurement

Question: To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the role of artificial intelligence-enabled modelling and simulation tools in informing defence procurement and military capability planning.

Answer

The Ministry of Defence is pursuing the digitalisation of support to strategic decision making. This will improve established mechanisms, including the Capability Audit and the Defence Readiness System, through the development of the Defence Strategic Framework, a digitised logic model which links all of defence’s capabilities to strategic outcomes.

We are in the process of building increasingly more detailed modelling environments to test our current and future capabilities within both as single systems and systems of systems. These will likely be enhanced by AI aspects to run efficient subsets of large, interlinked and complex solution spaces.

We have also delivered Machine Learning trained versions of models of threat systems as much lighter weight tools that they can use without dedicated computing power. AI enablement of Force Development inputs and processes is being developed as a means of exploring our curated evidence and risk data sets with respect to improving Force Design and concomitant capability planning.

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Type: Written question
Reference: HL795
Session: 2026-27
Subjects: Defence Procurement Artificial intelligence
Link: View this Written question on www.parliament.uk

Defence: Procurement

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