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Issue 3 Archived Features

Centre for Defence Enterprise brings innovation online

Dr Chris Mace

Dr Chris Mace is ebullient about CDE's first year and the new business that has been generated.

On firm foundations

Last
year's launch

A response to the need to develop new ways of doing business.

Online and in touch

The CDE team

CDE is primarily an internet-based service, but they are determined not to be faceless and unapproachable.

University research group adapts to new way of funding

Tim Tozer and his team

The University of York's Communications Research Group is one of the UK's leading academic research units

Staying alert, staying alive

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Modern warfare demands optimal performance for long periods in frequently adverse conditions.

The effects of lack of sleep

coffee cup

After 36 hours without sleep, there is a marked deterioration in the ability to register and understand information.

Type 45 powers into service

Type 45 powers into service

HMS Daring was formally handed over to MOD in December 2008.

Type 45 advanced technology

Technology

See all, track everything - the advanced radar for improved surveillance

UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO)

UK Hydrographic Office

Taunton is 75 miles from Plymouth yet this inland town is the home of MOD's UK Hydrographic Office

UKHO archive conserves priceless documents

Priceless document

UKHO Archivist, Philip Clayton-Gore is dedicated to the protection of the charts and archives in his care.

HMS Endurance

HMS Endurance

Every Autumn Endurance leaves her base in Portsmouth for the cold and ice of the Antarctica austral summer.

Antarctic Treaty

Helicopter

During the 1940s and 1950s, Antarctica was the subject of international tension caused by overlapping sovereign claims

A short immersion in hyperbaric medicine

Scuba diver

It would be easy to be overawed at first sight of the decompression chamber at the Hyperbaric Medicine Unit

Profile: Simon Howison

Simon Howison

Simon Howison BSc FRAeS FIET is one of the UK's most eminent aerospace engineers.