Supported by the DASA funding and run by veterans, a London-based green tech start-up has developed a process to recycle end-of-life body armour fibres, seeing high-quality protection for soldiers alongside reductions in emissions and saving money. When body armour used by soldiers expires, it is currently incinerated, resulting in the loss ...
DASA’s Defence Innovation Loan programme has seen UK SME VRAI improve the commercialisation of its data capture and analysis technology. Newcastle-based SME, VRAI, which specialises in virtual reality (VR) simulation training and data capture, with the help of DASA funding, VRAI developed a solution to enable the RAF to better measure and ...
Silicon Microgravity has secured a DASA Defence Innovation Loan to further develop and commercialise their micro-chip technology for autonomous tunnel and bunker detection. The Defence Innovation Loan will help the Cambridge-based SME develop and commercialise its autonomous gravimeter technology.DASA has also funded Silicon Microgravity’s ultra-precise, gyroscope technology for alternative navigation in ...
A new DASA competition has been launched to find novel and innovative proposals to develop and improve explosives and weapons detection capabilities. This £3.1M competition is part of the Innovative Research Call (IRC) 2023 for Explosives and Weapons Detection, a cross-government programme that seeks proposals from industry and academia for the screening ...