 After the publication of the DIS BAE Systems CEO Mike Turner said "If we didn't have the DIS and our profitability and the terms of trade had stayed as they were... then there had to be a question mark about our future in the U.K."

The year after the release of the DIS the government released the Defence Technology Strategy which takes forward some of the themes introduced in the DIS.This document discusses where science and technology research should focus on to deliver the capabilities identified in the DIS.An updated version of the DTS is expected to be published by the Defence Technology Innovation Centre (DTIC) in 2008.