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The Air Gap Is A Requirement, Not An Edge Case: Deploying Software On Disconnected Networks

In defence, a disconnected network is the standard environment, not an edge case. Learn what breaks when the cable comes out, how to deploy software properly on an air-gapped network, and the one demonstration to ask every vendor for.

The Defence Investment Plan: How to Navigate the Next 2 to 5 Years of IT Procurement

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August 2026 Edition

The Defence Investment Plan: How to Navigate the Next 2 to 5 Years of IT Procurement

The Defence Investment Plan will drive significant new IT demand just as supply tightens. In this edition of Tech SITREP, Dan Arnold and Ben Curtis discuss what it means for buyers and how to navigate procurement over the next two to five years.

Q3 2026 Component Shortages: Price Pressures and the Procurement Strategies That Beat Them

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August 2026 Edition

Q3 2026 Component Shortages: Price Pressures and the Procurement Strategies That Beat Them

Foundries are prioritising AI accelerators over standard enterprise components, driving multi-month lead times and double-digit price hikes. Learn the four procurement strategies that protect your timelines and budgets before 2028.

Buy The Compute, Not The Narrative: Defence Procurement And The AI Cycle

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August 2026 Edition

Buy The Compute, Not The Narrative: Defence Procurement And The AI Cycle

Nobody knows whether the AI bubble bursts, but defence programmes costed today deliver into the 2030s. Learn why buying general-purpose compute you own outright holds its value in either outcome, and the four questions that protect a programme.

When Pace Really Matters: Why Defence Procurement Needs Agility, Not Speed

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August 2026 Edition

When Pace Really Matters: Why Defence Procurement Needs Agility, Not Speed

"At pace" has become defence procurement's favourite word, but pace describes how fast you move, never whether you are moving in the right direction. Learn why agility, not speed, is the capability the sector actually needs.

How the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Price Hike Impacts System Builders in H2 2026

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August 2026 Edition

How the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Price Hike Impacts System Builders in H2 2026

The NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 has climbed from under £8,000 to around £12,000, upending workstation budgets. Learn how the price hike hits system builders, the workarounds emerging, and what it takes to keep quoting profitably into 2028.

Navigating the Q3 2026 Component Crunch: A Procurement Survival Guide

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Market Update

Navigating the Q3 2026 Component Crunch: A Procurement Survival Guide

The Q3 2026 component crunch is an escalation, not a plateau. Learn the buy-ahead procurement strategy that protects your projects from shortages, stretched lead times, and rising prices.

Tech Exploitation for Mission Planning and Rehearsal: Closing the Gap Between Innovation and the Front Line

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The Novatech Perspective

Tech Exploitation for Mission Planning and Rehearsal: Closing the Gap Between Innovation and the Front Line

A gap has opened between the technology defence develops and the static tools troops actually use to plan. Learn how deployable, interactive rehearsal capability can close it.

You Cannot Control The Component Market, But You Can Control What Sits On Top Of It

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The Novatech Perspective

You Cannot Control The Component Market, But You Can Control What Sits On Top Of It

Component inflation is beyond your control, but the licensing model layered on top of the hardware is a choice. Learn why capacity-based and per-core licensing make you pay twice, and how to design that exposure out.

How The Global Component Shortage Squeezes Specialist Manufacturers

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Market Update

How The Global Component Shortage Squeezes Specialist Manufacturers

While mainstream IT dominates the headlines, specialist hardware manufacturers face a quieter crisis. Learn how the DRAM shortage and HBM pivot are squeezing ruggedised and Military Standard builders.

What Rack Integration Actually Means For Defence Infrastructure

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Defence Insights

What Rack Integration Actually Means For Defence Infrastructure

The gap between a hardware delivery and a working capability is measured in weeks of skilled labour. Learn what rack integration actually involves, and why defence access, deployment, and lead times make pre-delivery integration the only model that fits.

Computex 2026: What the Technology Roadmaps mean for Defence and Industrial Compute

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Technology Roadmap Update

Computex 2026: What the Technology Roadmaps mean for Defence and Industrial Compute

The talk of Computex 2026 was undoubtedly NVIDIA Vera Rubin and the many advancements in AI computing. When Novatech visited the show our biggest take away was the complexity around the increased size and thermals of future products coming to market.

NVIDIA RTX PRO ADA Lovelace is end of life: What your transition to Blackwell must look like before H2 2027

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Obsolescence Update

NVIDIA RTX PRO ADA Lovelace is end of life: What your transition to Blackwell must look like before H2 2027

NVIDIA RTX PRO ADA Lovelace is end of life. Final shipments complete August 2026, stock dry-out expected by Q2 2027. If you run Training Systems, IGs or Simulators on ADA, your transition to Blackwell needs to start now.

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Defence Insights

Defence Insights: You are not buying products. You are buying a working system

The kit arrives. The vendor leaves. Your team spends months turning boxes into a system. Dan Arnold, Defence Business Development Manager explains why the product procurement model keeps failing defence programmes and what solutions-based buying actually looks like.

The Role of Proxmox Virtualisation and Open-Source Software in Defence

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The Novatech Perspective

The Role of Proxmox Virtualisation and Open-Source Software in Defence

A hypervisor touches every workload. A storage platform touches every dataset. Ross Collins, Head of Engineering at Novatech on why inspectability, air-gapped operation, and freedom from vendor lock make open-source virtualisation the right foundation for defence infrastructure.

Q2 2026 IT Component Update: Memory holds at record highs as storage prices rise 20-30% per month

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Market Update

Q2 2026 IT Component Update: Memory holds at record highs as storage prices rise 20-30% per month

Enterprise Storage prices are rising 20–30% per month. Memory is stable - but at record highs. Here is what procurement teams need to know before Q4 2026.

Why collaboration has never been more important in UK Defence Manufacturing

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Defence Insights

Why collaboration has never been more important in UK Defence Manufacturing

UK defence is changing faster than procurement cycles were built to handle. Dan Arnold, Novatech Defence, on why collaboration between primes and SMEs is no longer optional and what separates the organisations that will lead from those that will follow.

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