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DPRTE 2018: The UK’s Premier Defence Procurement and Supply Chain Event

December 13, 2017

Connecting the defence and security supply chain is Defence Procurement, Research, Technology & Exportability (DPRTE), the sector’s premier procurement event. Running in partnership with key defence organisations and trade associations including DE&S, Dstl, ADS and NDI, DPRTE will return to Cardiff’s Motorpoint Arena on 27 March 2018. DPRTE 2018 will bring ...

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, ...

Cranfield Aerospace research centre opens

Air January 26, 2017

Main Contractor, RG Carter has completed work at Cranfield University’s £35M Aerospace Integration Research Centre. The development is now home to the University’s researchers and industrial partners, who will be investigating ways of integrating advanced technologies and reducing time from academic innovation to industrial application. The centre will bring together researchers ...

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 ...