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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 Photo credit: MoD silicon.com recently took a trip to visit Wipro, one of India's biggest IT companies, at the Electronics City high-tech business park in Bangalore, India. Pictured here is Tata Consultancy Services' campus - the outsourcing...
[29 Apr 2008]
Photo Photo credit: MoD Photo credit: MoD A spokesman for the MoD said: "It will build up a picture of what is going on in the air. Photo credit: MoD UK troops on the ground are to get an eye in the sky that will help save lives by reducing 'friendly...
[03 Apr 2008]
Photo Photo credit: MoD Security software firm MessageLabs turned cyber threats into art using code from various malicious programmes. This creation pictured is from a phishing program. See our photo story for more weird and wonderful creations.
[27 Mar 2008]
Photo Photo credit: MoD Photo credit: MoD Photo credit: MoD Photo credit: MoD Photo credit: MoD Holographic quantum technology and acoustic sniper sensors may sound like the stuff of science fiction films - but they are actually new defence technologies...
[26 Mar 2008]
Photo Photo credit: MoD The MoD will take on 700 of the SSARF, which will be supplied to close combat forces for targeting and surveillance. Photo credit: MoD Photo credit: MoD A UK army soldier tests out the surveillance system and range finder (SSARF).
[18 Feb 2008]
Photo The UK part of the programme is jointly funded by Defra, the MoD and the Natural Environment Research Council. The Met Office is taking part in a global programme to monitor the world's oceans to improve understanding of how they influence climate...
[21 Nov 2007]
Photo The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has spent £250,000 on high-tech simulator equipment to provide more realistic training for frontline troops facing the threat of roadside and suicide bombs. Click here to see more of the MoD's training tech.
[31 Oct 2007]
Photo The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has spent £250,000 on high-tech simulator equipment to provide more realistic training for frontline troops facing the threat of roadside and suicide bombs. The equipment was demonstrated earlier this month at the MoD...
[22 Oct 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 Ministry of Defence (MoD) has unveiled an £80m electronic military medical records system. By 2010, these electronic records will be accessible in any of the 299 medical and 181 dental Defence Medical Services (DMS) centres which the MoD runs...
[02 Aug 2007]
Photo These days data centres come in all shapes and sizes - shipping containers, ex-MoD bunkers, you name it. A British Airways 747 taxis past Heathrow Airport's new Terminal 5, which will become home to much of the BA fleet from early next year.
[27 Jul 2007]
Photo Photo credit: MoD The ING Renault Formula One team has opened up an island containing a race circuit within Second Life's virtual world. Pictured is silicon.com's avatar taking a walk around the virtual Renault F1 garage.
[27 Jun 2007]
Photo Stephen Borthwick, an RAF wing commander, said the industry involvement is key because the Ministry of Defence (MoD) "does not have all the bright ideas". This isn't the first time the US and UK have joined forces to improve battlefield tech - the...
[14 Jun 2007]
Photo Photo credit: MoD Photo credit: MoD Photo credit: MoD Photo credit: MoD Neville Salkeld, MD of QinetiQ's MoD support business said the facility at Waddington demonstrates how mature technology can be used to improve military effectiveness.
[08 Jun 2007]
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