Defence Blog Posts

The Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has reaffirmed the UK’s ambition to work closer together than ever before with the United States to tackle shared threats as Britain expands its horizons across the globe. Mr Williamson was a panellist at the Reagan National Defense Forum, at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California, where he discussed […]

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This Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) competition is looking for innovative joining technologies that enable the use of advanced materials and/or designs on military platforms in land, sea and air environments. This is a parallel competition between the UK and Australia. Phase 1 of the campaign has £500k available through DASA to fund multiple proposals. […]

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As cyber espionage becomes more prevalent and the methods used more sophisticated, analysts at Symantec are beginning to explore how artificial intelligence and machine learning could thwart potential attacks more quickly.  According to the Security Response Attack Investigation Team at Symantec, groups engaged in cyber espionage have grown wise to traditional detection techniques, opting instead […]

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Vysiion has been awarded a two year contract by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) to provide a comprehensive service to support, grow and future-proof the Cyber Situational Awareness Fusion Architecture (CySAFA) architecture which was built as part of a wider contract, originally awarded in 2016. The service has been procured through the Crown Commercial Technology […]

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Lockheed Martin has won a contract worth $6.9 million from the US Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center (NSRDEC) to enhance the ONYX exoskeleton for future soldier demonstrations. ONYX is a powered, lower-body exoskeleton with artificial intelligence (AI) technology that augments human strength and endurance. Under the two-year, sole-source agreement, Lockheed Martin will […]

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Leidos has been awarded a task order by the US Department of Commerce (DOC) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to manage cyber and enterprise security operations for the organisation. The single award, firm-fixed-price, time and materials task order has a one-year base performance period and four one-year option years with a total value of […]

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HORIBA MIRA has secured a further £845,000 in funding from the Ministry of Defence (MoD), to deliver a third phase of its ATLAS Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) Autonomy research project. The funding has been awarded as part of the joint UK MoD Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) and UK Defence Growth Partnership (DGP) Innovation Challenge. […]

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The Defence Infrastructure Organisation has chosen the team for the £160 million Ministry of Defence project to build an F-35 flight simulator, maintenance unit, new hangars and storage facilities at RAF Lakenheath. HLM will work alongside the Engineering and construction firm Kier VolkerFitzpatrick to design and deliver the new facilities. The Suffolk airbase will be […]

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The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded BAE Systems a contract valued at $9.2 million for its Radio Frequency Machine Learning System (RFMLS) program. As part of the program, the company aims to develop new, data-driven machine learning algorithms that will help to decipher the ever-growing number of RF signals, providing commercial […]

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Iain Moran, Head of High Security Sales for the UK, USA and Australia at ATG Access, examines how airports can improve security against hostile vehicle attacks  Recently, a man drove a stolen car through the automatic glass doors near the main entrance to Terminal 1 of Lyon’s Saint-Exupery airport. He then drove through the building, injuring a worker […]

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KBRwyle, has been awarded two base operating support services (BOSS) contracts worth a total of almost $54 million by Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Europe, Africa and Southwest Asia. Most recently, KBRwyle received a $23.5 million cost-plus-award-fee task order to provide base operating support services at a Naval Support Facility in Poland. The period of performance […]

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