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MOD and Home Office seek innovative defence solutions

Homeland September 27, 2016

Innovative defence solutions are being sought by the MOD and Home Office, with two areas being outlined in the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory’s (Dstl) Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE) current competitions.

One of the competitions from the MOD is seeking swarms of drones to achieve military advantage. It asks bidders to show how an operator can manage more than 20 unmanned air systems (UAS), or drones, across the electro-magnetic spectrum in a contested environment. As well as developing technology components, CDE wants suppliers to go on to demonstrate integrated system solutions.

The second competition is a joint Ministry of Defence and Home Office task, which asks for autonomous systems that can assess hazardous scenes, such as sites contaminated by chemical and biological hazards.

It is a pilot for the Defence Innovation Initiative, launched last week (16 Sep 2016) by the Defence Secretary Michael Fallon. The competition’s aim is for suppliers to help remove people from hazardous areas by producing autonomous systems which could indicate the presence of hazardous materials, map where they are, monitor changes in the environment and take samples of material for analysis.

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