Defence Online

How much is obsolescence costing your business?

Homeland January 30, 2020

Oliver Organ from Allan Webb Ltd. looks at how businesses can manage the risk of obsolescence and prevent it negatively affecting their organisation. Obsolescence is a significant cost driver and can impact products and equipment at all stages of the lifecycle. With systems expected to last longer in service, and the ...

COTS over Cuts: Collaboration Key to Connecting Troops

March 13, 2019

Ken Peterman, President, Government Systems at Viasat examines how the transference of commercial off the shelf (COTS) technology can boost innovation, collaboration and save money in the defence industry.   Military resilience depends upon information networks  Secure, assured and ubiquitous communication is integral to every military operation across today’s battlespace. It’s critical that the right information is delivered accurately, securely and in a way that cannot be ...

BAE Systems unveils multiple-object tracking radar for test ranges

Air August 22, 2017

BAE Systems has announced an innovative, mobile multiple-object tracking radar (MOTR), which uses commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) solutions to provide military test and evaluation ranges a higher degree of accuracy in tracking time, space, and position information (TSPI) for objects in flight. The iMOTR solution was developed over the past two years using the company’s ...

Notification of CORTISONE Requirement for an Integration and Evaluation Partner

May 16, 2017

CORTISONE will provide a suite of scalable, interoperable medical information services (Med IS). It will support the delivery of operational capability by providing more readily exploitable information for effective clinical, operational and management decision making. Moreover, it will allow the MOD, through the Defence Medical Services (DMS), to meet its legal ...