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 how synthetic biology could present a new opportunity for threat detection.

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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 the region.

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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 with Iain and JD McNeil of Slitherine Games at DSEI to learn more about the growing convergence between commercial gaming and military training

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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 on the NATO missile defence shield, and more.

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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 to provide Cloud services to the US Department of Defense. Army-Technology.com wraps up key stories from October 2019.

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Army Technology lists ten of the most popular tweets on military and security in October 2019, based on data from GlobalData’s Influencer Platform.

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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 be used as a powerful authoritarian surveillance tool.

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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 the project is adapting motorsport technology to power the next generation of naval laser weapons.

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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 companies today.

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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 the defence community on Twitter.

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