In this issue: Maintaining the innovation edge, regenerative medicine on the battlefield, the RAF's apprenticeship programme, and more

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US DoD awarded $950m contract to REAN Cloud for services and solutions, US submits $686bn proposed DoD budget for FY19, and Lockheed Martin won $524m contract for PAC-3 missile interceptors. Army-technology.com wraps up key headlines from February 2018.

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The UK boasts world-leading expertise in energetic materials research and development. But as established experts retire and funding is diverted into more glamorous areas of defence research, we risk losing it. Berenice Baker examines how initiatives led by Cranfield University’s Centre for Defence Chemistry are seeking to attract and retain the best know-how in the business.

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In this issue: Technology for safer and more sustainable bases, the future of driverless technology in military vehicles, innovative UAV designs, the US Air Force's jet-mounted laser weapons, BAE System's digital naval shipyard, and more.

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While the growing chorus of ‘take the man out of the machine’ has led to an explosion in aerial drone use over recent years and kept many pilots safely out of harm’s way, there have been far fewer moves to do the same for military drivers and land vehicles. The pendulum seems to now be swinging however, and Dr Gareth Evans investigates.

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The rapid rise and breakneck evolution of UAS has resulted in a huge diversity in shape and size. Claire Apthorp takes a look at the most interesting designs coming out of R&D labs around the world.

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No longer an expensive niche process for prototyping, 3D printing has joined traditional manufacturing methods as a go-to technique for producing military technology. Its importance was highlighted when funding for it was earmarked in the 2018 US military budget. Berenice Baker asks why the DoD is making this investment, and examines recent US military projects that could signpost the types of projects that could benefit.

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By June 2018, if things go as expected, a merger between Italy’s Fincantieri and France’s Naval Group could see the birth of a new European giant in the sector, a move that would have major ramifications for Europe’s defence landscape and the global naval industry as a whole. Dr Gareth Evans reports.

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When taking into account the US Army size, what makes them the most powerful in the world and who is their closest rival?

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Researchers at Nottingham Trent University are using tiny microphones almost invisible to the naked eye to measure and record the levels of noise which soldiers experience. Claire Apthorp finds out how they work, and how they can help prevent hearing loss.

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