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DIO at DPRTE Engage: Opportunities within defence infrastructure

Land October 21, 2020

The annual Defence Procurement, Research, Technology & Exportability (DPRTE) event, organised by BiP Solutions, sees the defence and security industry come together to allow SMEs to discover their place in the UK’s £20 billion defence marketplace. This year, due to the impact of COVID-19, the event moved to a virtual platform ...

Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land awarded £16m Fuchs/Fox contract

Land October 20, 2020

The joint venture company Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land (RBSL) has won a Ministry of Defence contract worth over £16 million to upgrade and sustain the British Army’s fleet of Fuchs/Fox CBRN reconnaissance vehicles and training simulator. The Fuchs is a 6×6 armoured vehicle with built-in detection equipment for chemical, biological, radiological ...

DARPA strives for off-road unmanned vehicles that react like humans

Land October 16, 2020

The self-driving car industry has made great autonomy advances, but mostly for well-structured and highly predictable environments. In complex militarily-relevant settings, robotic vehicles have not demonstrated operationally relevant speed and aren’t autonomously reliable. While vehicle platforms that can handle difficult terrain exist, their autonomy algorithms and software often can’t process ...

MoD awards new military bridging contract to WFEL

Land October 15, 2020

The Ministry of Defence has awarded a new contract to WFEL for the supply of 17 Sets of its MGB Medium Girder Bridges. This contract award for WFEL follows a review of the MoD’s modular gap crossing capabilities, which aimed to draw together existing in-service capabilities into a single coherent capability. These ...