News Archive

Defence & Security Accelerator announce two opportunities re: Policing Challenges and Telexistence Competition

30 November 2020

Policing Challenges The future will be challenging for policing with trends like rising... Read more

Funeral of Ian Thompson CEO of British APCO

30 November 2020

Please see the below invitation from the family to attend the funeral of Ian Thompson the CEO of... Read more

Transformational Change and Adapting Emergency Services to COVID-19

20 November 2020

Transformational change in the emergency services, driven by the challenges presented by COVID-19... Read more

An important message from the President of British APCO

17 November 2020

It is with the deepest regret that I have to inform you of the death of our Chief Executive Officer... Read more

Once a world leader, the UK government is now a digital laggard, report finds

09 November 2020

Former chancellor George Osborne says the UK government has “fallen behind” in technology... Read more

International campaign celebrates critical control room stars across the globe

29 October 2020

Thousands of emergency and critical control room employees across the world have been celebrated... Read more

Explosives and Weapons Detection

18 October 2020

DASA has launched a £2.8 million competition to find state of the art and technological solutions... Read more

Coronavirus: Scotland's Covid-19 contact tracing app goes live

10 September 2020

Scotland's new contact tracing app to help combat the spread of coronavirus has gone live. The... Read more

App tells if office workers are not socially distanced

10 September 2020

A social-distancing app which alerts someone when a colleague is too close is being used by Network... Read more

International Control Room Week returns to celebrate unsung heroes during Covid crisis

04 September 2020

An international campaign to celebrate the life-saving and life-changing work of control room... Read more

A BT private equity buy-out would sound the death knell for full fibre broadband

01 September 2020

A perfect storm of factors has pushed BT into a vulnerable position – and the vultures of private... Read more

New report on Fire and Rescue Services approach to critical broadband migration highlights key issues

12 August 2020

Presentation of UK-based research relevant to a global audience of first responders and critical... Read more