Europe / country / reviewed 2026-09-28
United Kingdom
A location with specific sourced facility, institutional, procurement or investment relationships.
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Member since 1949
Formal membership in NATO; this edge does not represent a payment, procurement contract, or endorsement of every other member’s policy.
Date not isolated · member of
Possible arms sale
United Kingdom → US foreign military sales
C-17 aircraft sustainment support; notified estimate USD 861 million. The record documents approval to proceed with a possible sale, not completion or payment.
2025-08-26 · possible procurement
Named proposed supplier
Named in the 2025-08-26 notification. The package total is not the amount allocated to this company.
2025-08-26 · proposed supplier
Announced investment
Historical corporate plan, stated in its original GBP denomination. This record does not establish total expenditure by 2026 or convert the amount to a current exchange rate.
2023-11-30 · investment announcement
Located in
LD10 · London project → United Kingdom
Geographic context; this edge does not imply government ownership or funding.
Date not isolated · location
Read the ledger.
USD 84,169 million
United Kingdom: national defence expenditure, 2024 estimate
NATO Table 2, current prices and exchange rates, 2024e column. National defence spending estimate, rounded to USD millions. It is not a payment to NATO or the US and must not be added to sales notices or investment announcements.
Date not isolated · 2024; report cutoff 3 June 2025 · documented
Inspect this record and its sources ↗USD 861 million
United Kingdom: C-17 aircraft sustainment support
State Department approval of a possible Foreign Military Sale. The estimate covers the notified package, including support; it is not an invoice, completed purchase, obligation, disbursement, or an allocation to an individual contractor.
2025-08-26 · Possible sale notified in 2025; delivery period not established · documented
Inspect this record and its sources ↗GBP 2.5 billion
Microsoft AI data-center investment in the UK
Historical corporate plan, stated in its original GBP denomination. This record does not establish total expenditure by 2026 or convert the amount to a current exchange rate.
2023-11-30 · Three years from the announcement · documented
Inspect this record and its sources ↗Sources in this record.
- NATO member countriesNATO · 2024-03-11 · source access 2026-09-28
Official membership list checked on the access date. Membership is not a financial transfer or evidence of agreement with every US policy.
- Defence expenditure of NATO countries, 2014–2025NATO · Publication date not isolated · source access 2026-09-28
Table 2, printed page 8: 2024e column, current USD millions. Report information cutoff: 3 June 2025. Values are estimates rounded by NATO, not final accounts. Iceland has no row.
- United Kingdom: C-17 aircraft sustainment supportDefense Security Cooperation Agency · 2025-08-26 · source access 2026-09-28
Possible Foreign Military Sale. Search-indexed official release checked; direct retrieval of several DSCA article pages returned 403. Amount is the notified estimate, not actual expenditure.
- Microsoft AI data-center investment in the UKMicrosoft · 2023-11-30 · source access 2026-09-28
Historical corporate plan, stated in its original GBP denomination. This record does not establish total expenditure by 2026 or convert the amount to a current exchange rate.
- LD10 Data CentreMercury · Publication date not isolated · source access 2026-09-28
Historical project period May 2017–October 2019. Client explicitly confidential; the facility code is not used to infer an operator.