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DPRTE 2018 – DE&S Procurement Pavilion

October 24, 2017

Defence Procurement, Research, Technology & Exportability (DPRTE), the sector’s premier procurement event, will return to Cardiff’s Motorpoint Arena on 27 March 2018. At the heart of DPRTE 2018 will be the Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) Procurement Pavilion. Commanding an annual budget of £14 billion, DE&S is the body charged with ...

Leonardo-led team to demo active armour

Land September 28, 2017

The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) has selected Leonardo to spearhead a team of UK companies in work that will help protect British Army vehicles against current and future weapons. Under a Technology Demonstrator Programme (TDP) called ‘Icarus’, the team will develop and demonstrate a way to affordably integrate ‘best ...

Autonomous last mile resupply network event – information pack

June 13, 2017

The autonomous last mile resupply innovation network event was held on 23 May 2017. At the event in London, a series of presentations provided details of three challenges that make up the Defence and Security Accelerator competition Autonomous last mile resupply. Autonomous last mile resupply network innovation event. To set the scene, Accelerator Innovation Partner ...

£539M investment in state-of-the-art missile systems announced

Air April 21, 2017

The Secretary of State for Defence, Sir Michael Fallon, has today unveiled a trio of new contracts for missile systems with a combined worth of £539M. These contracts apply to the state-of-the-art Meteor, Common Anti-air Modular Missile (CAMM), and Sea Viper missile systems at MBDA Stevenage. Having secured the deal, the Ministry ...