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£1.5 million competition seeks innovations to remotely monitor sensitive sites

Homeland December 14, 2023

The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) is looking for organisations to come forward with innovations to enable the remote monitoring of its legacy nuclear sites. Official DPRTE 2024 event partner, Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA), has launched Phase 2 of the Remote Monitoring of Sensitive Sites Competition, run on behalf of the Nuclear ...

Contract awarded to build 138 new homes for service families in Cyprus

Land December 8, 2023

A £48 million contract has been awarded to build new homes for service personnel and their families at Dhekelia Station in Cyprus. The work will be carried out by the Lagan Iacovou Joint Venture (JV) on behalf of official DPRTE 2024 event partner, Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO), and UK Strategic Command ...

DTEP funding boosts two more innovative SMEs

Homeland December 4, 2023

Official DPRTE 2024 partner, DASA, has announced funding for two further SMEs to develop cutting-edge projects with higher-tier partners through the Defence Technology Exploitation Programme (DTEP). The companies, Kognitiv Spark and NquiringMinds will each receive a government grant, worth 50 per cent of the project value. The SMEs will partner with a larger supplier with ...

DPRTE 23 Review: The defence supply chain has never been more important

Homeland April 12, 2023

The biggest DPRTE event to date saw the defence industry come together last week at Farnborough International. The event was attended by over 19,00 people – a record for DPRTE 23 – and provided a unique opportunity to showcase goods and services as well as the chance to engage directly with ...