Apprentices from the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) have brought a seven-year-old boy’s dream submarine design to life. Jacob Bland, from Suffolk, drew his water-propelled design and wrote to Dstl asking if they would like to make it and use it for “sneaking and spying”. With the drawing, Dstl’s scientific apprentices ...
The Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) has launched its commercial strategy outlining its vision for future methods of working with suppliers in the soft and hard facilities management, construction and property advisory sectors. DIO, working on behalf of the Ministry of Defence, currently spends around £3 billion per year buying infrastructure services to ...
Charles Forte has been appointed new Ministry of Defence Chief Information Officer and will be responsible for the development of MOD strategy and policy on all MOD Information and Communications Technology, including cybersecurity. Following an open competition to both internal military and civilian candidates and to candidates from outside the MOD, the ...
The Home Office Centre for Applied Science and Technology (CAST) has made an agreement with Ploughshare Innovations to commercialise their intellectual property. Ploughshare is the UK’s leading defence and security technology transfer company with responsibility for the technology transfer of early stage research and intellectual property from the Ministry of Defence (MOD). This ...
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