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Achieving a digital advantage is more important than ever, with factors including climate change, the COVID-19 crisis and Brexit accelerating digital strategies. This is one of the findings in a new report published by BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, which has found that digital advantage is critical to protecting UK society and ...


The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) and the UK Space Agency will investigate ways to collaborate more closely. The initiative follows the first visit by the UK Space Agency’s Chief Executive Paul Bate to Dstl’s space facilities at its Portsdown West site near Portsmouth, where he met Dstl Chief Executive Paul Hollinshead and senior members ...


At a recent event, suppliers demonstrated an array of technologies that allow an operator to experience being in a distant location. The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) has demonstrated innovative telexistence concepts that could give military personnel, emergency services, or humanitarian workers the capability to undertake dangerous tasks in hazardous ...


Raytheon Technologies has been selected by the US Department of Energy for two research and development projects to test the use of hydrogen and ammonia as effective, zero-carbon options for electricity generation. “These projects are the latest examples of how we’re partnering with the Department of Energy to innovate the technologies ...


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