Royal Navy is to host an event for collaboration with universities and industry on cutting-edge technologies onboard the XV Patrick Blackett.

The Royal Navy is set to host an engagement event aimed at fostering collaboration with universities and industry partners to explore new technologies that can provide a competitive advantage over adversaries.

The introduction of NavyX’s experimental vessel, XV Patrick Blackett, and the opening of BattleLab, a co-creation environment in Dorset, have created new opportunities for innovation say the Royal Navy in a procurement notice.

The event will focus on sharing the frameworks and commercial tools NavyX plans to use in the coming months to address problems, challenges, and opportunities. It is designed for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and non-traditional defence suppliers, providing information on registering as a provider for various frameworks and accessing defence opportunities.

NavyX is the Royal Navy’s Autonomy and Lethality Accelerator, responsible for rapidly developing, testing, and trialling cutting-edge technologies to expedite their deployment to the front line. The team aims to increase the speed of learning by collaborating with industry and academia, leveraging the XV Patrick Blackett and BattleLab to test and iterate capabilities of interest.

The event will emphasise networking opportunities for technology providers focusing on maritime autonomy, enhanced decision-making, ubiquitous computing, and the Internet of Things (IoT).

It is scheduled to take place in Portsmouth.

George Allison
George has a degree in Cyber Security from Glasgow Caledonian University and has a keen interest in naval and cyber security matters and has appeared on national radio and television to discuss current events. George is on Twitter at @geoallison

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  1. Be good to see Universities being more active, indeed proactive here, I am sure I am not giving them full credit but when I keep reading about what foreign Universities are reported as doing in research and industrial cooperation, particularly Germany, US and Australia I am regularly left depressingly searching for reports of similar technical achievements from UK equivalents. If our highly regarded Universities are pulling their weight they certainly aren’t doing enough to promote the fact. The tumbleweed in particular around Oxbridge really does make you wonder what they are doing there beyond giving its students a privileged leg up. Even Manchester isn’t as high profile as it once was despite its incredible history of innovation.

    • Believe AUKUS Pillar 2 R&D program (when finally organized and operational) will send appropriate cues to universities across the alliance via defense/defence R&D contracts, w/in several years. 🤔🤞

    • Spyinthesky Oxbridge students and other uni’s seem more likely too study Cancel Culture and The Message rather than be anyway interested in producing creative innovations that would enhance British standing in the World of technology for the future

      • For every student involved in some form of self-promotion for this or that current fad, there are dozens, if not hundreds just getting on with studying & preparing for their futures.

        If there is a failure, it is with British business culture -we don’t have the same hi-tech startup culture that is common in the USA for instance

        • Quite agree with you there Caribbean, those that do prevail in what can be our country’s future tech are often headhunted with financial incentives by the US classic case of the 1960ts Brain drain , where have all the “backroom” inventors gone ?

    • There’s a lot- MOD outsources as much R&D as possible to Universities or industry as a matter of policy. They don’t draw too much attention to it because obscurity provides a degree of security in itself.

    • Had to find one that wasn’t behind a paywall. Read it on FT – The University of Cambridge makes a financial contribution to the UK almost four times that of the Premier League, a new report has suggested.

      Analysis of economic impact found the university adds nearly £30 billion to the UK economy every year through a combination of research, entrepreneurial activities, tourism and enhanced value that graduates bring to employment.

      https://www.standard.co.uk/business/business-news/cambridge-university-s-economic-contribution-four-times-that-of-premier-league-b1068474.html

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