Day: July 13, 2018

The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) has announced the launch of a new competition on metasurfaces for defence and security. This themed competition is seeking proposals for innovative solutions that will pull ideas from recent breakthroughs in metasurface science into products. The competition is aimed at the private sector and academia who can harness electromagnetic […]

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US President Donald Trump has claimed that NATO members have agreed to his demands to increase spending on defence. Mr Trump emerged following the two-day summit in Brussels to address the press and endorse NATO as he said US commitment to the organisation “remains very strong”. He claimed that other NATO members had agreed to […]

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The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) is launching a competition ‘Safely eliminating chemical and biological munitions on the battlefield ‘Don’t Blow It!’ The competition is aimed at the private sector and academia, to seek innovative solutions and approaches to accessing, disabling and/or irreversibly destroying chemical and biological weapons munitions, improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and bulk […]

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The Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has met with Australia Defence Industry Minister Christopher Pyne following the country’s decision to buy a British warship design as part of a £20 billion deal. The meeting between the two ministers, and Defence Minister for procurement Guto Bebb, follows the decision to select British firm BAE Systems as the […]

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