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Cutting-edge science at MOD showcase
Date added: 28/03/2012
Revolutionary gadgets and gizmos, developed by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and funded by Centre for Defence Enterprise grants were displayed this week at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills in London
£2 million funding for SMEs
Date added: 28/03/2012
Additional funding for defence research from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills' Small Business Research Initiative, will help support SMEs to develop their ideas.
Centre for Defence Enterprise 500th contract announced
Date added: 28/03/2012
ITSUS, a small Welsh company will receive £104,000 of funding to look at ways of improving existing IT network systems for military operations with the aim providing enhanced tactical advantage, improved incident response and cheaper operating costs.
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.