Defence Online’s Ciara Houghton examines how advances in technology are leading to government’s exploring the military use of nanotechnology. Advancing technology means that important components needed to power products can be made smaller. This includes batteries, aerials, and data storage chips. The first every hard disk drive, invented in 1956, was ...
Up to £1.5m is available to fund TRL3+ proposals to access, disable, or destroy chemical and biological munitions. To keep our Armed Forces and personnel safe, the UK and US governments are offering up to £1.5 million for new technologies to access, disable and/or destroy munitions and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) ...
The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) is exploring the use of Chatbots as digital assistants, utilising artificial intelligence to help tactical military users to rapidly access information in the field. Chatbots will enable soldiers to have conversations with a text chat interface system to find and discover the data they ...
An updated model of a communications system will help secure collaboration between UK and Netherlands forces, according to General Dynamics. The updated communications system NIMCIS (New Integrated Marines Communications and Information System) will further collaboration between the UK and Netherlands armed forces. The two military organisations will work together to improve ...