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£1M funding for Humans in Systems competition

May 22, 2023

Can you help DASA enhance innovations in Human Machine Interaction (HMI); and interface technologies and approaches to support teamwork and collaboration? DASA has launched a new Themed Competition called, ‘Humans in Systems: Accelerating Interaction Innovation’ Funded by the Defence Science Technology Laboratory (Dstl) Up to £1M in funding available for innovative technologies that ...

DASA seeks AI innovations to solve defence challenges

Land March 13, 2023

This IFA seeks innovative proposals that apply AI to defence challenges and help overcome common barriers to implementing AI within defence DASA has launched a new Innovation Focus Area (IFA) called Artificial Intelligence for Defence This IFA is run on behalf of the Defence AI Centre (DAIC), which seeks to exploit innovative Artificial Intelligence (AI) research at ...

Dstl enables Artificial Intelligence dataset expansion

Homeland December 13, 2022

Dstl hosts Artificial Intelligence platform recognition trial to build datasets and validate algorithms. Artificial Intelligence (AI) for defence applications could be developed more quickly due to an innovative defence community-based approach to trial hosted by The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl). Over time this could increase weapon capability and reduce development ...

Removing barriers to diversity in the UK and US militaries could bring significant operational and strategic advantage

Land August 25, 2022

A new report from RAND Europe Leveraging Diversity for Military Effectiveness  has highlighted the significant strategic advantage that embracing diversity in the military could bring to the UK and the US. From the exceptional information skills prevalent in many neurodiverse individuals, to language capability and advantages associated with having a military ...