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Writing for Defence Online,  Andy German, Technical Director Resilience Engineering at Atkins, explores how enhancing data through connectivity and visualisation can improve safety. Andy German, Technical Director Resilience Engineering at Atkins As the Defence sector continues towards greater digitisation, it’s time to explore how ‘heating-up’ our data, and introducing interconnected visualisation and ...


A new hub designed to spark innovation and push the boundaries of technology used by UK Armed Forces has been officially opened in Dorset. Building on successful global models of innovation and other work across UK Defence, the Defence BattleLab will bring together military personnel, academic institutions and private sector companies ...


CGI has been selected by UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) – Defence Digital to provide an Intelligent Customer Team (ICT) to support the UK PICASSO programme. The CGI team will provide systems engineering, architectural skills, IT service management, and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) expertise to manage transition, obsolescence, business change, and ...


Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS), Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, has made a special visit to the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl). He saw first-hand the science and research under development for the future of Defence. Among the science on display was a robotic canine, dubbed Ghost Dog. Dstl is using ...


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