The enduring competition looks for proposals that challenge our thinking and not iterative developments of current technologies. It provides some direction on what MOD’s enduring research challenges are, while still remaining open to all highly innovative ideas that challenge existing conventions and have a high potential benefit for the defence ...
Announced at the Farnborough Airshow in 2012, the Defence Growth Partnership has played an indispensable role in encouraging government and industry to join forces to propel innovation and improve UK defence sector exportability. MOD DCB features writer Domhnall Macinnes caught up with Allan Cook CBE, Chairman of Atkins and industry Co-Chair of the DGP, to discuss past achievements ...
The Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE) has awarded contracts to the best ideas from its first competitions with the UK Defence Solutions Centre (UKDSC). In 2015 CDE, part of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), ran a series of SBRI themed competitions against which industry and academia submitted their innovative ideas. The first two competitions were on ...
Defence Secretary Michael Fallon MP took time out to congratulate award-winning British businesses at the recent Farnborough International Airshow. Mr Fallon met a number of British-based small and medium-sized enterprises which won awards in the MOD-funded Defence Growth Partnership (DGP) Innovation Challenge, run in partnership between the UK Defence Solutions Centre (UKDSC) and the Ministry of Defence. He was ...