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Dstl competition receives over 5,000 entries

Homeland March 16, 2017

Dstl’s Kaggle competition has been a huge success, receiving over 5,000 entries, equivalent to over £2.5M in research. The data science competition was run via Kaggle, the world’s largest data science competition community. This is the first time UK Government has worked with an online community in this way. The purpose of ...

Engaging the defence supply chain

March 9, 2017

With a sea-change in procurement underway throughout the MOD and defence network, Defence Online takes a look at the initiatives being developed to show the way forward. We speak exclusively with Rob Solly, Head of the MOD’s Defence and Security Accelerator, about the key engagement days being held to engage ...

Technologies of the future: apply for business funding

March 7, 2017

Businesses can apply for a share of up to £15 million for innovation projects that will inspire the products and services of tomorrow. Innovate UK has up to £15 million to support business projects that stimulate new products and services through emerging and enabling technologies. These technologies could be the basis for ...

Revolutionise the human information relationship for Defence

December 28, 2016

Accelerator themed competition: revolutionise the human information relationship for Defence This Defence and Security Accelerator themed competition seeks new technologies, processes and ways of working to improve the way we analyse and exploit data in order to inform decision-making. The amount of data created continues to grow, however, under current processes the ...