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Photo The Grand Challenge is a science and technology competition set up by the Ministry of Defence to address military challenges faced by the UK armed forces. The challenge is to create a system with a high degree of autonomy that can detect, identify...
[06 May 2008]
Photo Its early number-crunching abilities were used to design military aircraft and guided weapons. Historian professor Peter Hennessy said the exhibition of post-war tech embodied public opinion of technology at the time, torn between optimism and terror.
[01 May 2008]
Photo The US military has given the University of Michigan's College of Engineering $10m to build a six-inch spy plane to gather sights, sounds and smells in urban combat zones. And sticking with the military theme, the Future Soldier event at London's...
[27 Mar 2008]
Photo The US Army wants a six-inch spy plane to gather data on sights, sounds and smells in urban combat areas. It has given the University of Michigan's College of Engineering $10m and five years to help make "the bat" plane happen.
[17 Mar 2008]
Photo Donelan believes his device will have applications for military and medical fields, as well as consumer markets. Researchers from Simon Fraser University in British Columbia have developed a device worn much like a knee brace that generates...
[11 Feb 2008]
Photo The saucer also has military applications to help reconnaissance missions, with the Ministry of Defence and the US Department of Defense both showing interest in the tech. Search and rescue flying saucers, sniffer bees and mobile maps are just some...
[07 Sep 2007]
Photo The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has unveiled an £80m electronic military medical records system which allows the health records of military personnel to be transferred between practices electronically, instead of using the traditional paper-based...
[31 Aug 2007]
Photo The training takes place in the UK Centre of Excellence for Acoustic Analysis, where teams of scientists, engineers, analysts and military personnel also analyse acoustic information to extract the characteristics of ships and submarines, as well...
[22 Aug 2007]
Photo The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has unveiled an £80m electronic military medical records system. The system, due to be fully rolled out by 2010, allows military personnel health records to be transferred between practices electronically, instead of...
[02 Aug 2007]
Photo This month silicon.com visited an annual field trial running military scenarios and testing tech such as the Skynet 5 satellite-based comms and VoIP phones as part of the military's Falcon project. The ING Renault Formula One team has opened up an...
[27 Jun 2007]
Photo Pictured is the field on a military base near Portsmouth, UK where the trials are taking place. The HQ contains Bcip5 - the military's battlefield digital radio system - used to provide direct support to the UK's air, land and maritime operations...
[14 Jun 2007]
Photo Virtual worlds are all the rage at the moment for businesses and consumers but they also have the potential to be used in the military sphere too. This demonstration version is part of the 30 month, £7.8m project and will play host to several test...
[08 Jun 2007]
Photo Many of the 40 staff who work here are ex-military. Welcome to The Bunker, an ex-Ministry of Defence nuclear bunker now used for data backup and disaster recovery by the financial industry. Photo: Dan Ilett
[25 Oct 2005]
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