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Video overview: synthetic biology and beyond battery power

December 14, 2016

The Defence and Security Accelerator recently opened two competitions. One is looking for highly innovative, ambitious proposals using synthetic biology approaches to produce transparent materials for defence and security. Professor Petra Oyston and Professor Bryn James explained what they were looking for: https://youtu.be/uyKm9sPavek The other competition is looking for technologies that will reliably ...

Revolutionise the human information relationship for Defence

December 13, 2016

Accelerator themed competition: revolutionise the human information relationship for Defence This Defence and Security Accelerator themed competition seeks new technologies, processes and ways of working to improve the way we analyse and exploit data in order to inform decision-making. The amount of data created continues to grow, however, under current processes the ...

Automation and Machine Intelligence

December 8, 2016

A new event has been launched by Dstl, which is open to businesses, organisations, innovators and academics. By collaborating with the Digital Catapult Centre, there is some £100,000 available for research into how automation and machine intelligence can analyse data to enhance decision making in the defence and security sectors. The Dstl ...

Defence and Security Accelerator launched

Homeland December 8, 2016

Announced as part of the Defence Innovation Initiative, the Defence and Security Accelerator is officially launched today. Devised as a conduit for collaboration between industry, government defence and security departments, academia, and allies, the Accelerator will allow the rapid development of innovative solutions to the most pressing security challenges. The Accelerator has ...