The money is new.
The map is not.
On 30 June 2026 the Defence Investment Plan set out £298bn over four years. Before you position for it, read what the base's own buying record already shows: the 90 days of published notices immediately before the plan — 193 of them, from 83 buying organisations — read line by line. Not a forecast. What has already happened.
14 pages · published 1 July 2026 · free — no sign-up · every figure traces to a named public record
Four things already in the record.
The largest single line published with the plan is £6.6bn for responsive repairs and regeneration of Service Family Accommodation — over seven times the largest equipment item in the same 90 days. Where the money lands first is on the record.
Six dated records in one quarter, from three unconnected public buyers — the MOD, the Home Office and Network Rail — from a £5bn “drone transformation” to a £125m counter-drone framework. A capability class being institutionalised, visible in the notices.
The MOD's own notices record a “material and ongoing degradation” of a cyber capability after a contract expired — and a nine-month direct award, made without competition, to bridge it. Procurement behaviour is a capacity gauge; here it is stated at a public URL.
An £890m Rotary Wing Enterprise “Transition” package — the word is the buyer's own. Alongside it: equipment in service since 1991, with support now being bought out to the 2030s.
Each finding in the briefing traces to a named public record — a notice ID, a filing, a register entry — so you can check any line yourself. The full read, with sources, is in the PDF.
What the public record doesn't settle.
Who wins under the new lanes — incumbent or entrant, in your segment — is not answered by the window's notices; award identities publish unevenly. That is what a scoped, private read settles: your segment, your field, your position. Held to the same published standard, under NDA.
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