Defence Technology Centres

DTCs are world-class centres of excellence providing research and exploitation of knowledge aimed at benefiting the MOD's defence equipment programme. They are a formal collaboration between industry and academia, partly funded by the MOD with significant contributions from the participants. Each DTC undertakes a diverse range of research in a specialist area of technology, concentrating on innovation that will contribute to future UK defence capability. Many of the DTCs fund 'open calls' for research proposals from outside the members of DTC consortium - please see the individual DTC websites for further information. The two way partnership allows the MOD to access research from industry, and industry to exploit knowledge from defence research.

DTCs are part of both the Defence Industrial Strategy and the Defence Technology Strategy (under Emerging Technologies).

Electro Magnetic Remote Sensing (www.emrsdtc.com)
Research and demonstration of innovative and cost-effective sensor technologies in any part of the electro-magnetic spectrum that can improve the capability to detect, identify and locate military targets, at longer range and in adverse weather. The research is potentially applicable to air, land, sea or space-based sensing systems.

Systems Engineering for Autonomous Systems (www.seasdtc.com)
Developing through fundamental research in the DTC, novel technologies relevant to autonomous systems, at both whole-system and sub-system level, for unmanned systems in the land, sea and air domains. This is a strategically important priority for the MoD, with particular application to areas where using autonomous vehicles would reduce the costs or danger associated with human involvement.

Human Factors Integration (www.hfidtc.com)
Human Factors is an engineering discipline that must be integrated with other disciplines to develop better and more efficient designs for products, systems, procedures and working environments by considering the capabilities, characteristics and limitations of the human operators. The approach is to design the system around the person rather than adapt or work around poor designs and working environments that make operation difficult or even dangerous.

Data and Information Fusion (http://difdtc.gdstorm.org.uk/)
Research into technology, architectures and implementations to provide timely critical information through a more integrated network approach to command and control.