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Data capture flying high with DASA loan

Homeland August 30, 2023

DASA’s Defence Innovation Loan programme has seen UK SME VRAI improve the commercialisation of its data capture and analysis technology. Newcastle-based SME, VRAI, which specialises in virtual reality (VR) simulation training and data capture, with the help of DASA funding, VRAI developed a solution to enable the RAF to better measure and ...

Defence Innovation Loans shine light on innovation

Homeland August 10, 2023

Silicon Microgravity has secured a DASA Defence Innovation Loan to further develop and commercialise their micro-chip technology for autonomous tunnel and bunker detection. The Defence Innovation Loan will help the Cambridge-based SME develop and commercialise its autonomous gravimeter technology.DASA has also funded Silicon Microgravity’s ultra-precise, gyroscope technology for alternative navigation in ...

£3.M DASA competition launched

Land July 19, 2023

A new DASA competition has been launched to find novel and innovative proposals to develop and improve explosives and weapons detection capabilities. This £3.1M competition is part of the Innovative Research Call (IRC) 2023 for Explosives and Weapons Detection, a cross-government programme that seeks proposals from industry and academia for the screening ...

Dstl to host Future Sensing and PNT symposium

July 18, 2023

Dstl is hosting a symposium with industry, academia and wider government to shape thinking on future technical challenges for defence sensing and position, navigation and timing (PNT). This symposium will provide insight into generation-after-next (GAN) technical defence challenges for sensing and position, navigation and timing (PNT). In our rapidly changing world, sensor technologies increasingly ...