Defence companies with cutting-edge have been awarded over £10 million after being named winners of the MOD and Defence Growth Partnership (DGP) Innovation Challenge. The winners provided innovative solutions to key strategic future demands for UK defence in autonomy and big data. The companies will receive combined investment and support worth ...
A QinetiQ-led partnership has successfully bid for a contract to further development of its unique Software Defined Multifunction LIDAR (SDML) technology. For the uninitiated, LIDAR is very much like radar. The difference being that light, and not radio waves, are used to boost intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities and secure ...
Radiant Solutions has been awarded a $2 million contract by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to lead a team in designing, building, and demonstrating a next-generation optical telescope system for agile small satellite constellations. The satellite telescope system’s lightweight design and large field-of-view is expected to enable more ...
On 4 October 2018, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) levelled extraordinary accusations at Russia’s now-infamous military intelligence service, the GRU. This was an unprecedented announcement; the kind of coordinated, international response Ciaran Martin, CEO of the NCSC, had alluded to months earlier in the aftermath of the Sergei Skripal affair. The GRU had, over a period of years, waged a “reckless and indiscriminate” campaign of cyber attacks, it was alleged, and here was the proof. So ...