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Government to boost R&D to cement the UK as science superpower

Homeland July 2, 2020

New plans to cement the UK as the world’s leading research and science superpower have been set out by the Business Secretary Alok Sharma. The government says the new Research and Development Roadmap will place pursuing ground-breaking research, attracting global talent, and cutting unnecessary red tape at the forefront of its ...

MOD experts negotiates 10 billion PPE items for NHS workers

Homeland July 1, 2020

Over the last 12 weeks a dedicated team fronted by MOD experts have negotiated contracts for more than 10 billion items of PPE for NHS workers in the battle against Covid-19. The team was set up shortly after the Coronavirus outbreak in a response to calls from the UK Government to ...

Dstl release research on stability of COVID-19 in the air

Homeland June 30, 2020

The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) has published a research paper on the stability of the COVID-19 virus in the air through the Emerging Microbes and Infections journal. The paper “Experimental aerosol survival of SARS-CoV-2 in artificial saliva and tissue culture media at medium and high humidity”, written by a ...

US set to invest over $18 billion on cybersecurity in 2021

Homeland June 26, 2020

According to Atlas VPN investigation, the US government is set to allocate $18.78 billion for cybersecurity spending in 2021. In September 2018, the White House published the National Cyber Strategy, which provides strategic steps towards securing the government and all critical infrastructure from cyber threats. The Department of Defense (DoD) in the ...