Six companies have been awarded a share of £3m to develop new semi-autonomous concept demonstrators for the British Army. The winners will demonstrate their autonomous innovations at the Army Warfighting Experiment (AWE19) in April 2020. The competition, run by the Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA), sought to find collaborative ideas that could ...
The US and UK armed forces collaborated on an experiment to test the potential of autonomous vehicles in saving lives. The UK DSTL and the US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s Ground Vehicle Systems Centre (TARDEC) recently experimented on the benefits of autonomous vehicles. They looked at how semi-autonomous logistic convoys, ...
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) ...
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