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The UK Government’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) has awarded Plextek the contract to lead a £2M four-year Adaptive Communications Transmission Interface (ACTI) research programme. The programme is designed to investigate cross-layer processing for Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (MANET) architectures, thus enabling the efficient use of directional antennas and improving the quality, ...


Unmanned systems, whether aerial, land-based or marine, are taking the defence marketplace by storm, their remote technology allowing intelligence to be collected and transmitted from warzones without risking lives. Yet with this power come ethical and commercial challenges, as Plextek’s Defence Business Manager Peter Doig explains in this interview with ...


With budget being reduced between 2015 and 2017, the MOD is moving away from bespoke solutions and towards a model in which requirements are fulfilled in part by Commercial Off The Shelf technology. Here Peter Doig, Plextek Business Manager for Defence, and Dr Aled Catherall, Plextek Technology Lead for Defence, talk ...


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