The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) has published its Corporate Plan detailing how it will continue to play a vital role in protecting the people of the UK by providing solutions for defence and security over the next five years. The purpose of Dstl within the Ministry of Defence (MOD) ...
Six companies have been awarded a share of £3m to develop new semi-autonomous concept demonstrators for the British Army. The winners will demonstrate their autonomous innovations at the Army Warfighting Experiment (AWE19) in April 2020. The competition, run by the Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA), sought to find collaborative ideas that could ...
The US and UK armed forces collaborated on an experiment to test the potential of autonomous vehicles in saving lives. The UK DSTL and the US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s Ground Vehicle Systems Centre (TARDEC) recently experimented on the benefits of autonomous vehicles. They looked at how semi-autonomous logistic convoys, ...
The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) is exploring the use of Chatbots as digital assistants, utilising artificial intelligence to help tactical military users to rapidly access information in the field. Chatbots will enable soldiers to have conversations with a text chat interface system to find and discover the data they ...