Innovation & Technology Archives

The Ideas Marketplace

Homeland July 17, 2023

The Defence and Security Accelerator has launched ‘The Ideas Marketplace’, a platform offering opportunities for defence and security organisations to network with government, innovators, industry and academia. The ultimate goal of the Ideas Marketplace is to support the creation of successful innovations to overcome defence and security challenges in the UK, ...

Dstl invite collabotations for simulation and synthetic research

Dstl invite collaborations for simulation and synthetic research

August 31, 2016

Industry and academia are invited to join to collaborate with Dstl in simulation and synthetic work. The next event for members of the SE Tower is scheduled for November 2016, where Dstl will once again be looking at ways to increase the mutual understanding and co-operation between the MOD and supplier base who ...

Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon gave a speech at CSIS, Washington, discussing stronger defence and investing in equipment.

Innovation Initiative to bring Armed Forces future tech

August 24, 2016

Defence Secretary Michael Fallon MP has launched a new Innovation Initiative backed by £800M of UK Government funding. Aimed at transforming the Ministry of Defence’s creative culture, the Innovation Initiative will fundamentally change the way defence does business. The initiative will challenge government to collaborate better with industry, academia and allies, ...

CDE Enduring competition

August 3, 2016

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 ...