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New contract paves the way for Veterans UK digital transformation

Homeland June 4, 2020

The way many of Veterans UK services are delivered is to be digitised as part of a new contract worth £300-million that successfully commenced on 1 June 2020. The seven year contract will enable Veterans UK and other parts of our parent organisation, MOD Defence Business Services (DBS), to transform the way ...

DASA to oversee new funding for defence innovation priorities

Homeland June 1, 2020

£1m of Defence Innovation funding has been set aside for civil sector support for the Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) innovation priorities. Industry and academia are being urged to submit their ideas to help MOD with its most pressing problems to face future threats. The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) will oversee the Innovation ...

Patriot One collaborates with AWS and Vancouver Hospital on Covid-19 project

Homeland June 1, 2020

Patriot One Technologies wholly-owned subsidiary Xtract Technologies (“Xtract AI”) is collaborating with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Vancouver General Hospital (VGH), the University of British Columbia (UBC), and SapienML among others in the development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) solution to help radiologists identify the increased risk of the COVID-19 virus. The project ...

Dstl Awards £350 million ASTRID contract to BAE Systems CORDA

Homeland May 28, 2020

A contract worth up to £350 million to provide cutting-edge analysis to underpin UK Defence and Security decision-making has been awarded by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) to BAE Systems CORDA. Under the ASTRID (Analysis for Science and Technology Research in Defence) contract BAE Systems CORDA will use leading-edge ...