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Dstl announces competition for autonomous gap crossing survey technology

Land February 7, 2020

Dstl has released competition information for autonomous gap crossing survey technology for use during missions. Dstl is seeking autonomous gap crossing survey tools to help personnel cross bodies of water and other ‘gaps’ in the map. Currently, the only way of identifying suitable crossing points is to send Royal Engineer reconnaissance ...

UK and Australia join forces on deep space situational awareness

Air February 5, 2020

Dstl is teaming up with British and Australian astronomers to study deep space situational awareness by tracking satellites. For the Argus 2 exercise, satellites orbiting more than 36,000km above the Earth will be tracked to study deep space situational awareness in the latest ‘citizen science’ project. The experiment is designed to ...

DASA announces £4million contract for AI warships

Maritime January 27, 2020

DASA has announced a new contract for AI warships with advanced decision-making technology across nine projects. The new funding from DASA (Defence and Security Accelerator) will go towards projects creating AI warships with advanced intelligence processing systems, beginning with nine projects. The first projects will share an initial £1 million to ...

Dstl teams up with US Navy to develop space weather sensing suite

Air January 27, 2020

Dstl has teamed up with the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) to develop a space weather sensing suite. Dstl has developed a miniature space weather sensing suite alongside the NRL to enhance measurement and modelling methods. The Coordinated Ionospheric Reconstruction Cubesat Experiment (CIRCE) comprises two 6U cube-satellites that will be launched ...