Analysis Archives - Army Technology

Can bacteria be used for bomb detection?

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded Raytheon and Signature Science contracts to research bacterial sensors to detect underground explosives. Army Technology spoke to Raytheon to learn...
DSEI Japan addresses unstable neighbours and growing regional threats

DSEI heads to Japan today, marking the first time the event has left London. Army Technology looks at the unique defence priorities of Japan and the threats it faces in...
Gaming and the future of military training: Insights from Slitherine

Game developers have long drawn inspiration from the military, but now armed forces and defence contractors are increasingly looking to gaming technology for their training software. Harry Lye caught up...
Catching up with private sector innovation: new issue of Global Defence Technology out now

In this issue: Gaming meets military training, bringing defence equipment up to speed with commercial innovation, the US Air Force’s service acquisition executive on the future of autonomy, Raytheon's work...
October’s top news stories

Bell Textron released rotorcraft Bell 360 Invictus as its proposal for the US Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) Competitive Prototype programme, and Microsoft beat Amazon in the $10bn competition...
Twitter round-up: Crash-landing of Dhruv chopper leads October mentions

Army Technology lists ten of the most popular tweets on military and security in October 2019, based on data from GlobalData’s Influencer Platform.
Facial recognition: essential for security or bordering on Big Brother?

The use of technologies capable of identifying people using their biometric data is on the rise, most notably in the security sector. Grant Turnbull investigates growing concerns that the technology...
Could F1 technology power laser weapons?

The UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory is working with UK industry and the US Navy to explore advanced energy storage options for British warships. Grant Turnbull finds out how...
Q&A Mark Testoni: Cyber threats, disruption and how to deal with it

Mark Testoni, CEO of SAP National Security, which develops software solutions for military and business applications, talks to Harry Lye about the national and cyber security threats facing countries and...
From buzzwords to big guns: DSEI in 14 tweets

While we were out reporting from DSEI 2019, our Twitter feed was overflowing with stunning images, hot takes and tech reveals. Here’s a look back at DSEI as experienced by...