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RAF Engineering Competition

Air April 27, 2017

The RAF has launched its first ever Engineering Competition, designed to encourage more interest in the area from across the Whole Force. Using 2018 The National Year of The Engineer to inspire people of all ages to get involved in STEM subjects, there are two competitions over an 18-month challenge period ...

Competition opens: Autonomous last mile resupply

April 12, 2017

This Defence and Security Accelerator (Accelerator) competition seeks to develop and demonstrate the use of autonomous systems to deliver mission-critical supplies, focusing on the challenging ‘last mile’ resupply in the land environment. The ‘last mile resupply’ involves the delivery of combat supplies from the forward-most location (such as a physical base or a ...

Dstl launches Data Science Challenge

Homeland April 12, 2017

Challenging data scientists to help improve the nation’s defence, security and prosperity, Dstl has launched its latest competition. In its first public competition, Dstl is looking for the brightest minds in data science to help solve real-world problems. The challenges encompass detecting and classifying vehicles from aerial imagery, while others will ...

Competition summary: autonomous last mile resupply

April 4, 2017

This Accelerator themed competition is looking for novel proposals that use autonomous systems to deliver mission critical supplies to users in the military front-line. For for this competition we’re focussing on the challenging ‘last mile’ of resupply. The aim of an autonomous last mile resupply system is to: reduce the demand on existing platforms ...