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Frazer-Nash develops protective concepts

Land February 8, 2017

Following a design brief from Dstl, Frazer-Nash, the UK leading systems and engineering technology company, has presented a number of Collective Protection (COLPRO) systems for the armed forces. COLPRO systems create a protective environment against chemical, biological and radiological threats, allowing military personnel to move freely within a toxic free area, ...

Dstl awards Plextek research programme

Land February 2, 2017

The UK Government’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) has awarded Plextek the contract to lead a £2M four-year Adaptive Communications Transmission Interface (ACTI) research programme. The programme is designed to investigate cross-layer processing for Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (MANET) architectures, thus enabling the efficient use of directional antennas and improving the quality, ...

Dstl and CAST integration will further support defence and security

Homeland January 24, 2017

The MOD has announced that its Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) and the Home Office’s Centre for Applied Science and Technology (CAST) are to be integrated. Following a review that examined the best way to provide enduring and appropriate science and technology (S&T) support to the bodies, it was been ...

Launch event for Accelerator Enduring Challenge

January 10, 2017

An innovation networking event is taking place in London on 26 January 2017 to launch the Accelerator Enduring Challenge. It’s a unique opportunity for industry and academia to engage with a wide range of Ministry of Defence personnel – from the Defence and Security Accelerator, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory technical ...