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Dragonfire secures laser weapon contract

Maritime January 6, 2017

The MOD has awarded a £30M contract for a Laser Directed Energy Weapon capability demonstrator to UK Dragonfire consortium. Led by MBDA, the consortium will test and assess innovative technologies in order to develop and demonstrate the system in 2019. Comprising partners from across the UK, the Dragonfire consortium includes MDBA, ...

Crowdsourcing innovative new defence technologies

January 3, 2017

Dstl announces an innovative competition to crowdsource solutions to improve satellite imaging. In a UK first, the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) has announced that it is working with Kaggle, the world’s largest data science competition community, to source innovative solutions to help intelligence analysts evaluate information more quickly, accurately ...

Automation and Machine Intelligence

December 27, 2016

A new event has been launched by Dstl, which is open to businesses, organisations, innovators and academics. By collaborating with the Digital Catapult Centre, there is some £100,000 available for research into how automation and machine intelligence can analyse data to enhance decision making in the defence and security sectors. The Dstl ...

Automation and Machine Intelligence

December 8, 2016

A new event has been launched by Dstl, which is open to businesses, organisations, innovators and academics. By collaborating with the Digital Catapult Centre, there is some £100,000 available for research into how automation and machine intelligence can analyse data to enhance decision making in the defence and security sectors. The Dstl ...