New innovative concepts for sonar can arise from studying how nature has solved numerous problems helped by millions of years of evolution. Here’s a question….what is the loudest animal on earth size for size? A blue whale (favourite answer of …
Today, 23 June is National Women in Engineering Day (NWED) - an International campaign to raise awareness of women in engineering. National Women in Engineering Day was set up by the Women’s Engineering Society (WES) to celebrate its 95th anniversary. Their aim being to …
In November 2015 the Prime Minister announced, through the Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR), that the UK will provide its Armed Forces with advanced cyber capabilities. You can join us in helping make this a reality. We want to …
What is the UK-French MCM ITP? What does it deliver? And how do you get so many different participants together to share their ideas for future technologies? Mark Owen explains here. The Materials and Components for Missiles Innovation and Technology …
All medical facilities need to ensure cleanliness. But with the nature of military operations always changing, and the potential of chemical and biological attack, military hospitals may have to keep clean both inside and out. All this and be ready …
Virtual reality technology is no longer a futuristic concept, as the UK government invests in making a more realistic training experience for frontline soldiers. Plextek Consulting has been working with the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) to create an …
The recent Defence and Security Equipment International exhibition (DSEI) exhibition in London featured a Medical Innovation Zone - supported by Defence Medical Services and the Surgeon General - demonstrating the latest advances in clinical care – from point of injury …
At the end of 2014, Dstl established an official presence on GitHub and released the source code for a web application called Ideaworks. This first project was a ‘pipe-cleaner’ - a way to see if it was even possible to release code using …
Despite the cold, I was excited. It was the first day we got to explosively test the prototypes that British industry had been developing, for what would soon become the Foxhound vehicle. The weather in the Northumbrian hills was below zero and …
I am a volunteer for the Support to Operations readiness pool, which comprises analysts from across Defence, primarily from the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory ,who are available to support defence exercises alongside members of the Deployment Team. So …