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QinetiQ Receives Contract To Continue Anti-Piracy Research

Friday, April 5th, 2013

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UK-based contractor QinetiQ Maritime has been awarded a grant from the Ministry of Defence to develop anti-piracy technology for the Royal Navy against small ship attacks, the company said recently. The contract will build on QinetiQ’s past work in anti-piracy. The funding comes from the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), a trading fund of the Ministry of Defence. “[QinetiQ] provided clear evidence of the potential benefit of the technology concept for improved situational awareness that more effectively combines the…

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