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Serco to support helicopters at RNAS Yeovilton and Culdrose

Air July 17, 2020

DPRTE Engage partner, Serco, has been awarded a £20 million contract to provide Aircraft Engineering Support and Airfield Services (AESAS) at Royal Naval Air Stations (RNAS) Yeovilton and Culdrose. The contract will commence in January 2021 and is for four years and three months with a 12 month extension option. The contract ...

BAE Systems to provide transparency and trust in machine learning

Homeland July 16, 2020

BAE Systems recently delivered software to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as part of a contract under the agency’s Competency-Aware Machine Learning (CAML) program. The delivery of the MindfuL software is the first milestone in the program to improve the transparency of machine learning systems. Transitioning artificial intelligence-based systems from ...

BAE Systems reveals ‘factory of the future’

Air July 15, 2020

BAE Systems have revealed a new intelligent, smart factory that the Company envisage will increase productivity and revolutionise combat aircraft production in the UK. A first-of-its-kind industry 4.0 factory is applying game-changing digital technologies to advance manufacturing on the UK’s next generation combat aircraft system, Tempest. The new facility at BAE Systems’ ...

Dstl forecasts future quantum landscape for UK defence and security

Homeland July 13, 2020

The UK’s emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities could achieve a decisive step-change by adopting current and near-term quantum technologies. According to a research paper published by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), on behalf of the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and in collaboration with UK Strategic Command “Quantum Information Processing Landscape ...