The MOD has awarded BAE Systems an £89M contract to enhance front-line connectivity for military personnel, linking small reconnaissance drones, combat vehicles, fighter jets, aircraft carriers and military commands. Modern battles are fought across land, sea, air, space, cyber and electronic warfare. Rapidly evolving technologies mean each domain is highly contested ...
Dstl has taken part in a two-day workshop run by the Machine Speed Command and Control (MSC2) project on artificial intelligence (AI). The innovative workshop was run by one of the MSC2 partners, Cambridge Consultants, with the aim of building a common understanding of the opportunities and challenges of AI. Much of ...
Atkins’ Elspeth McIntyre considers how asset data can help defence to meet its decarbonisation targets. Across the globe, nations’ national defence organisations are major asset owners and – consequently – major contributors to greenhouse gas emissions. The UK’s Ministry of Defence, for example, owns about 1% of the UK’s total landmass, ...
Three new contracts, worth some £90M and designed to boost Ukraine’s air security, have been signed as part of a package by the Ministry of Defence on behalf of the International Fund for Ukraine (IFU). These include a £56M counter-uncrewed aerial systems (UAS) contract with Norwegian defence company Kongsberg and two ...
January 21, 2025
Homeland - Telford at forefront of UK Defence manufacturing and innovation
The Defence Minister has hailed Telford as the heart of UK defence manufacturing during a visit to key facilities producing
January 17, 2025
Securing Real-Time Communication in a Post Quantum World
Advances in Quantum Computing are placing the encryption algorithms and protocols that protect everything from commercial banking to defence grade
