ADS influences the Home Office’s new Police Science and Technology Unit
16/06/2014
The Home Office is in the process of setting up a new Police Science and Technology Unit. ADS has been very influential in helping frame the roles and…
Innovation
What will digital police forces look like?
13/06/2014
Recently, the College of Policing wrote to all Chief Constables and PCCs, the Policing Minister and HMIC about digital capabilities. A new College of Policing report describes what a…
Summers echoes Piketty: Robots are not stealing jobs
28/05/2014
The FT has reported that, speaking at the Inclusive Capitalism Conference yesterday, Larry Summers, former US Treasury Secretary and Chair of Obama’s National Economic Council,…
Electric Dreams: Increasing the Focus on Hybrid/ Electric Passenger Aircraft
09/05/2014
An interesting article in Aviation Week this week discusses the future prospects of Electric/ hybrid powered aircraft – with Airbus outlining its plans to develop…
Home Office call – explosives precursors
02/05/2014
The Home Office is leading a public research call seeking to identify additives to or substitutions for explosives precursors and poisons to reduce the risks…
The challenge of police procurement – what is ADS doing about it?
15/04/2014
Police procurement has always posed challenges for the security sector. The most obvious challenge is that the customer base is very fragmented, with 43 operationally…
EU Commission Sets Out Approach to Future Civil RPAS Airspace Integration
10/04/2014
The European Commission has this week released a communication to the EU Parliament and Council on the proposed integration of Civil RPAS into European airspace by…
Increased Aircraft production rates – Supply Chain risks?
21/03/2014
At the start of the year, both Airbus and Boeing announced plans to increase their aircraft production rates significantly over the course of 2014. In…
UK to Boost Funding for PLATO ‘Planet Hunter’ Space Mission
11/03/2014
Following last month’s announcement by the European Space Agency (ESA) that the PLATO Mission had been selected as the third medium-class science mission for the…
Security innovation – tackling the new shoe bomb threat
28/02/2014
The UK’s security sector is world leading because of its constant innovation. I was reminded of this last week, when the US Department for Homeland Security…