Defence industry to use Irish military to test more products under Coveney plan

The international defence industry is to have increased access to the Irish Defence Forces for product testing, under plans to be brought to Cabinet next week by Minister for Defence Simon Coveney.

The Minister has been working on a White Paper setting out his aims.

"We are planning to do a lot more of it, to actually link defence infrastructure and the skillset of the defence forces, with innovators in the private sector so that actually we can create products that are good for defence," Coveney told the Sunday Independent.

Read more