Defence Codex

MOD signs £40 million contract with BAE Systems

Date added: 20/12/2011

The four-year Future Combat Air System Focused Research contract will inform MOD’s unmanned air system (UAS) strategy over the coming decades and ensure the UK retains a leading edge in the next generation of combat air systems.

Find out more about UAS in Defence Codex Issue 9. 

Jonathan Lyle new Dstl Chief Executive

Date added: 13/12/2011

Jonathan Lyle to succeed Frances Saunders, taking up the post in March 2012.

Currently Director of the Dstl Programme Office, Lyle is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.

Dstl is a trading fund of the MOD and is run on commercial lines. It has a turnover of some £550million, much of which is spent in industry and academia.

Dstl collaboration first in Engineer awards

Date added: 06/12/2011

Dstl showed how blunt force trauma survival rates increase significantly when oxygen is administered. Cambridge designed an integrated oxygen concentrator powered by a micro-diesel engine instead of a heavy battery. It is now working to further the technology  for civilian use.

India and UK sign defence research agreement

Date added: 26/09/2011

Indian and British scientists will work together to develop cutting-edge technologies for defence and security. Dstl and India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation(DRDO) will cooperate and share facilities, working on projects such as UAVs, advanced explosives, human performance and CBRN.

HMS Dauntless - Type 45 visits London

Date added: 12/09/2011

HMS Dauntless is the first of the RN’s new Type 45 Destroyers to visit the capital. Last week she sailed up the Thames docking outside the Excel Centre in London’s Docklands for this week's Defence and Security Equipment International (DESi) event. Read more about Type 45: http://www.science.mod.uk/codex/documents/codex_issue3.pdf