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DPRTE Engage partners play key role as launch International Space Pitch Day launched

Air July 31, 2020

DPRTE Engage Online partners, DASA and Dstl, are to play a key role in delivering International Space Pitch Day. Start-up technology companies and inventors will be given the opportunity to pitch directly to UK and US military leaders for the $1-million investment to fast-track their ideas for cutting-edge Space innovations. International Space ...

Dstl awards £300 million WSRF contract to QinetiQ

Land July 29, 2020

The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) has signed a five year framework contract which is budgeted to be worth £300m over that period with QinetiQ, and their key partners MBDA and Thales, to lead the Weapons Sector Research Framework (WSRF). The framework will enable Dstl, and over 70 industry and ...

DPRTE Engage partner QinetiQ achieves UK’s first airborne manned/unmanned team demonstration

Air July 23, 2020

DPRTE Engage partner, QinetiQ, has delivered the UK’s first successful demonstration of an airborne team comprising both manned and unmanned aircraft.  The demonstration from QInetiQ took place on 19th June over the army ranges on Salisbury Plain and featured a manned helicopter and a semi-autonomous drone, working together to identify potential ...

Dstl forecasts future quantum landscape for UK defence and security

Homeland July 13, 2020

The UK’s emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities could achieve a decisive step-change by adopting current and near-term quantum technologies. According to a research paper published by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), on behalf of the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and in collaboration with UK Strategic Command “Quantum Information Processing Landscape ...