Defence Procurement, Research, Technology & Exportability (DPRTE), the sector’s premier procurement event, will return to Cardiff’s Motorpoint Arena on 27 March 2018. At the heart of DPRTE 2018 will be the Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) Procurement Pavilion. Commanding an annual budget of £14 billion, DE&S is the body charged with ...
Dragonworks – a brand new centre of excellence designed to put advanced laser technology through its paces – has launched in Farnborough, QinetiQ has confirmed. Dragonworks will serve as a test bed for cutting-edge technologies associated with high-energy military and commercial grade lasers. The state-of-the-art facility houses a clean-room which will ...
The Royal Navy Submarine Mechanical Specialists team has won a prestigious award in recognition of its innovative application of freeze seal isolation to repair a submarine’s nuclear reactor. To meet the engineering constraints associated with submarine repair – issues of space and geometry, for example – Royal Navy specialists made canny ...
Physicists at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) are working on using quantum technology to see through walls and navigate without signals. Working with experts from UK industry and academia, Dstl is developing deployable devices that will be used to see through walls, around corners and underground. One such technology is the ...