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Dstl scientists ramp up their support to the Covid-19 pandemic

Homeland January 19, 2021

Scientists from DPRTE event partner,  the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), have been working tirelessly since the start of the pandemic to support a whole host of government agencies and civilian authorities. Recently, Dstl experts were called on by the MOD’s Standing Joint Command (SJC) to provide short notice analytical support to the ...

Dstl state-of-the-art robot trialled to seek out chemical agents

Homeland January 15, 2021

Official DPRTE partner, the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), have successfully trialled a fully autonomous robot that will help defence and security personnel dealing with hazardous scenes. Dstl scientists have developed a prototype robot so that humans and machines can now share the burden of detecting and report dangerous chemicals ...

Record number of armed forces personnel help with Covid response

Homeland January 15, 2021

The Defence Secretary has updated Parliament on the role the UK Armed Forces are playing to tackle Covid. The record 5,300 personnel committed to winter and Covid operations are currently supporting 56 different tasks in the UK and abroad – this includes the vaccine rollout, NHS support and community testing across the ...

DPRTE partner DASA to fund new wave of AI for the military

Homeland January 13, 2021

The second phase of funded proposals has been announced for the Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) Intelligent Ship competition to revolutionise military decision-making, mission planning and automation. Phase 2 of Intelligent Ship, run by DASA on behalf of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), both official event partners of DPRTE 2021, sought novel ...