Forget Big Ships: U.K. Defense Firms Tout Tech Transfers in Asia
- Contractors offer technology transfers to boost jobs in U.K.
- Senior trade official downplays risks of technology theft
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British defense companies seeking business in Asia are increasingly offering to transfer technology to local contractors, with a senior trade official downplaying the risk of systems falling into the wrong hands.
“Where I think the U.K. is unique is that we will readily facilitate technology transfer, we readily facilitate the establishment of local support and local manufacture,” Alexis Hammer, Regional Director for the Americas and Asia Pacific in the Department for International Trade’s Defence and Security Organisation, said on Wednesday.