A £16 million programme to boost small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) defence innovation has been launched. With the innovation of SMEs, the resources of big suppliers and initial funding from government, the Defence Technology Exploitation Programme (DTEP) is designed to bring the key components together to allow pioneering projects to flourish. The ...
Dstl is expected to highlight increased SME spending this year at Venturefest 2020. Dstl Chief Executive Gary Aitkenhead will explore recent increases in SME spending when he speaks at this year’s Venturefest. This year (2019/20) Dstl has already committed to spend £41 million on research directly with SMEs, up from £38 ...
The Minister for Defence Procurement Anne-Marie Trevelyan gave a keynote speech on the opening day of Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) 2019. Here Defence Online presents the edited highlights… “British defence is about much more than big platforms: our innovative SMEs, the life blood of British defence, are experts in ...
The MOD has awarded a third cloud contract to Kahootz for secure working environment technology. The company was awarded a cloud contract from the MOD for Defence Share, a cloud-based collaborative working environment. The software allows MOD teams to collaborate and share information easily which can be protectively marked as sensitive ...