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Dstl’s acoustic yarn monitors military hearing health

Land March 19, 2018

Scientists from the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) are collaborating with Nottingham Trent University on knitted sensors to guard against hearing loss for troops. Dstl is supporting the Materials Research Exchange exhibition and conference (MRE) and the acoustic yarn will be amongst other projects from industry and academia being presented at ...

Dstl set STEM challenge for girls in Salisbury

March 12, 2018

Staff at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) have been leading the way in an initiative to inspire girls to take up careers in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). The Salisbury Soroptomist STEM challenge put to girls in years 8 and 9 in Salisbury schools was to research, design ...

DPRTE 2018: Getting your product to the defence market

Homeland March 7, 2018

The defence sector relies heavily on technology and innovation to develop new solutions to meet the challenges it is facing; however, bringing a new product or service to the market can be daunting if you don’t know how. The MOD has committed 1.2% of the rising £36bn defence budget, supported by ...

Dstl looking to exploit the power of data science

Homeland February 28, 2018

The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) is working in partnership with Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and the Alan Turing Institute – the national Institute for data science – on a number of defence challenges that exploit the power of data science. As part of this work, Dstl took part in a Data Study ...