DPRTE 2018 broke new ground with the introduction of a brand new Knowledge Transfer Zone, christened ‘Doing Business with the US Department of Defense’. As the name suggests, the new addition – which co-opted the Keynote Arena for the afternoon of the event – paid tribute to the UK’s innumerable contributions to defence and security in the United States and made available much-needed advice to British businesses looking to ...
Viasat has announced the availability of ViaSat-2 satellite communications (SATCOM) service for government, defence and military applications. The service leverages the world’s most advanced communications satellite, ViaSat-2, along with innovations in ground networking technologies, that will deliver significant performance advantages over any other commercial or US Department of Defense (DoD) SATCOM ...
Ball Aerospace has been chosen by the US Air Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center to deliver the next-generation operational environmental satellite system, Weather System Follow-on – Microwave (WSF-M), for the Department of Defense. The contract will encompass system design and risk reduction of a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite with ...
Some $3.5M has been awarded to six university teams by the DoD which will fund research into robotics for disaster relief. The funding has come as part of a joint research project with the Republic of Korea’s Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy (MOTIE) and will see joint teams funded by ...