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£88m of joint industry and government funding has been announced for 46 vehicle-related CO2 reduction projects in the UK. Awarded through the UK’s Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC), £44.5m is from the government and £43.5m from the automotive industry. “Congratulations to all the companies awarded funding in this latest round of competitions facilitated by the Department for Business and Trade and industry,” ...

Colin Tucker, chairman of Novocomms, thinks a rise in global political uncertainty and a new administration in Downing Street, could provide opportunities for the UK electronics industry. Back in the days when I was a young engineer, the UK boasted names such as Plessy, AEI, English Electric and of course GEC, all of whom were globally respected names, employing hundreds ...

The UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) has announced it has been developing a Radio Frequency Directed Energy Weapon (RFDEW), which it describes as a cutting-edge drone killer radio wave weapon. The UK designed and built system – which can neutralise a swarm of drones – is designed to provide battlefield protection for the UK Armed Forces. It can ...

A consortium has demonstrated quantum-based inertial navigation in an aircraft, the first such demonstration to be made public, according to the UK Government’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT). By using quantum-based references in the accelerometers and gyros at the heart of an intertial measurement unit (IMU), it is theoretically possible to maintain absolute accuracy over time as an ...

The UK Government has launched the first funding call for its C-LEO programme – to help boost the country’s satellite communications sector – which was announced in the recent Spring Budget. There is £60 million of funding being made available over the next four years for satellite constellation-related ideas. Awards of up to £20 million per project will be funded ...

The UK Space agency is funding a comms tech competition with a potential of £10 million investment open to a range of “innovative products or components, systems or services, and any aspect of the space, ground or network segments”. This could, for example, include technologies such as the laser communication in space, or the use of space tech to improve ...

A military laser which could boost the UK Armed Forces with greater accuracy while reducing the reliance on high-cost ammunition has reached its next milestone. During a trial at the MOD’s Hebrides Range, the DragonFire laser directed energy weapon (LDEW) system achieved the UK’s first high-power firing of a laser weapon against aerial targets. The range of DragonFire is classified, but ...

The UK Space Agency has awarded Raytheon a contract to provide Space Surveillance and Tracking Services Data (SST) from low-Earth orbit (LEO). Specifically, Raytheon NORSS – Raytheon’s UK-based space domain awareness specialist- will be using Raytheon’s LOCI (LEO Optical Camera Installation) sensor network to track “Resident Space Objects”. Such objects include space debris, defence assets and commercial satellites, to better ...

A government body which creates secret technologies to support national security – His Majesty’s Government Communications Centre (HMGCC) – has launched an initiative to work more openly with technology firms and academics. HMGCC is based at Hanslope Park near Milton Keynes and is described by the government as a centre of national security engineering excellence. The new commercial initiative is ...

The UK government has announced Enabling Technologies Programme (ETP) funding for a range of projects designed to help boost UK development of new space technologies. Twenty-three projects are involved and, in total, the UK government funding is £4 million. This is made up of £3.2 million from the UK Space Agency (UKSA) with £800,000 contributed by the Science and Technology ...