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Up to the challenge: Defence firms play vital role in ventilator production

Homeland March 31, 2020

A consortium of significant UK industrial, technology and engineering businesses from across the aerospace, automotive and medical sectors, has come together to produce medical ventilators for the UK. The VentilatorChallengeUK Consortium is led by Dick Elsy, CEO of High Value Manufacturing Catapult, a group of manufacturing research centres in the UK. The ...

DECA remains operational during the COVID-19 pandemic

Homeland March 30, 2020

The Defence Electronics and Components Agency (DECA) has confirmed that it remains operational during the COVID-19 emergency. DECA will remain operational in line with Government guidance throughout the COVID-19 emergency to deliver key Defence and National Security outputs, support overseas operations (where possible), and MOD contingency plans held at readiness to provide ...

COVID-19: DASA call for rapid sanitising technology for ambulances

Homeland March 27, 2020

The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) is looking for rapid sanitising technology to speed up the time it takes to clean ambulances to help in the national effort against Coronavirus and save lives. DASA has today launched a new Innovation Focus Area as part of its Open Call for Innovation seeking industry’s help ...

DPRTE 2020: Cranfield University’s Innovation in defence education

Homeland March 25, 2020

Writing for Defence Online, Emma Sparks, Professor of Systems Engineering Education Centre for Systems and Technology Management at Cranfield University, looks at Cranfield’s new Defence and Security Programme. Cranfield University are Official Event Partners at DPRTE 2020. They will take their place at the event’s Technology and Innovation Knowledge Transfer Zone, ...