SimCentric’s virtual reality training technology, SAF-TAC, is helping armed forces personnel improve key skills in a realistic and immersive environment. Team-based training is essential for military personnel to improve individual and collective proficiencies, but it is difficult to deliver in an effective and cost-efficient way. Because of this, virtual training has ...
The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) has launched an Innovation Focus Area (IFA) called Making Science Fiction a Reality: Future Directed Energy Weapons. This IFA is seeking innovations that will help contribute to the development of the first generation of deployed Directed Energy Weapons across Land, Sea and Air domains. This IFA is run on behalf of the Defence Science ...
At a recent event, suppliers demonstrated an array of technologies that allow an operator to experience being in a distant location. The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) has demonstrated innovative telexistence concepts that could give military personnel, emergency services, or humanitarian workers the capability to undertake dangerous tasks in hazardous ...
Innovation experts from the Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) participated in the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory’s (Dstl) Supercharging Science engagement day, recently held in Newport. The event set out the Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) most ambitious science and technology (S&T) programmes to date with details on Dstl’s technical challenges and requirements. Minister for Defence Procurement, Jeremy Quin gave ...