Cyber warfare has become the latest addition to the arsenal of countermeasures that the military operator must now consider alongside other force multipliers such as Electronic Warfare (EW). For hundreds of years we formed armies; when we learned how to …
An international crisis requires information to be created quickly, amended quickly and communicated instantly to a multilingual audience. E-learning is able to reinforce classroom content with ‘flipped learning’, providing interactive and video content in advance of classroom training, leading to …
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 …
As part of a new effort to Catalyse Innovation through Defence Science and Technology, MOD recently hosted a 'hackathon'. MODHACK 2015 - Mining the Deep Web – provided an opportunity for software teams to explore the web, using tools from …
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 …
With wearable technology on the rise, Augmented Reality (AR) has the potential to push the boundaries of innovation for Defence platforms. AR is a live direct or indirect view of a physical, real-world environment where elements are augmented (or supplemented) by …
As Head of the Defence, National Security and Public Safety team at Esri UK, our mission is to deliver intelligence, information, services and force elements to defence including deployed forces and to other government departments and international partners. …
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 …