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DASA to oversee new funding for defence innovation priorities

Homeland June 1, 2020

£1m of Defence Innovation funding has been set aside for civil sector support for the Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) innovation priorities. Industry and academia are being urged to submit their ideas to help MOD with its most pressing problems to face future threats. The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) will oversee the Innovation ...

Patriot One collaborates with AWS and Vancouver Hospital on Covid-19 project

Homeland June 1, 2020

Patriot One Technologies wholly-owned subsidiary Xtract Technologies (“Xtract AI”) is collaborating with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Vancouver General Hospital (VGH), the University of British Columbia (UBC), and SapienML among others in the development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) solution to help radiologists identify the increased risk of the COVID-19 virus. The project ...

Dstl Awards £350 million ASTRID contract to BAE Systems CORDA

Homeland May 28, 2020

A contract worth up to £350 million to provide cutting-edge analysis to underpin UK Defence and Security decision-making has been awarded by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) to BAE Systems CORDA. Under the ASTRID (Analysis for Science and Technology Research in Defence) contract BAE Systems CORDA will use leading-edge ...

jHub support NHSX to securely share COVID-19 symptom data

Homeland May 22, 2020

Strategic Command’s innovation hub, jHub, were recently commissioned to support NHSX to securely gather and share COVID-19 symptom data for project OASIS. During the UK’s response to COVID-19, a number of third-party apps and websites have been collecting COVID-19 symptom data in order to track the spread of the virus. The apps ...