The ADS (Aerospace, Defence and Security) Programme, pioneered at Glasgow University and developed in partnership with Scottish Enterprise, provides advice and assistance to Scottish-based small and medium sized enterprise companies (SMEs) on competing for defence sector tenders.  The importance of the Aerospace, Defence and Security sectors to the UK economy is well established and these markets, along with Medicine and the Biosciences, dominate R&D activity in the UK. The ADS Programme also helps Scottish companies to access leading-edge research currently underway in Scottish universities and supports those interested in participating in collaborative research & development projects that will help realise opportunities in aerospace, defence, security and related markets.

Supported by ERDF and the Scottish Executive SEEKIT scheme, the ADS Programme is striving to benefit the Scottish economy by making it easier for SMEs, who so often lead the processes of innovation, to tap into the wide range of opportunities available within these important sectors.

BAE Systems Advanced Technology Centre (ATC) delivers the frontline in technology innovation, acquisition, development and insertion for BAE Systems and external customers. The ATC provides research & development, consultancy, specialist manufacturing and technology brokering services into defence, aerospace and commercial markets, delivering technology capability over a broad spectrum of disciplines. Its services, capabilities and resources are applied throughout the product lifecycle, supporting long term speculative research through to applied product development and in-service support.

With an employee base of world-class scientists, technicians and researchers, the ATC has a proven history of delivering innovative technology and providing cutting edge solutions to its customers. In addition to supporting BAE Systems and its Joint Venture organisations in the achievement of tactical and strategic technology objectives, the ATC has a vast network of relationships with external organisations including the UK Ministry of Defence, US Department of Defense, European Space Agency, Universities and other research and product organisations.

Our research programmes involve multi-disciplinary teams drawn from across the ATC and throughout the supply chain to ensure the technologies and products developed support current and future business growth. The programmes cover themes including; Information, Networked and Autonomous Systems, Design & Materials Technologies, Sensors & Electronics, Specialist manufacturing and Systems Engineering.

Future technologies under development within academia and other organisations across the supply chain are also carefully monitored and evaluated to assess potential future contribution to creating market solutions. As well as developing new technologies and capabilities, the ATC is able to provide key resources, skills and knowledge to business units, joint ventures and external customers.

BAE Systems Advanced Technology Centre provides research and development, consultancy, specialist manufacturing and technology brokering services into defence, aerospace and commercial markets. With 400 scientists and engineers, the Advanced Technology Centre works in collaboration and partnership with academia and innovative organisations throughout the supply chain, identifying, pulling through and integrating technologies and capabilities to deliver discriminating solutions to its customers.

ATDI Ltd specialise in the exploitation of spectrum dependent systems, which include communications links, electronic warfare sensors, radio jammers and radars.  Our systems and capabilities allow operators to plan missions for the acquisition of enemy characteristics and disposition via detection, intercept and direction finding systems.  Using our systems and methods, the deployment of available sensors can be optimised to maximise the probability of mission success while minimising the number of systems that need to be deployed; this can be achieved for airborne, terrestrial and maritime platforms. 

As well as mission planning for live operations, our battle-proven systems are also used for operational analysis to aid development of new systems, technology assessment to predict and prove the performance of proposed new technologies and for training purposes.

ATDI Ltd is part of the ATDI group, which has hundreds of customers throughout the world. 

See our website www.atdi.co.uk for more information.

AMS Technologies has been supporting the European market for 25 years with leading, innovative technologies and products, that have allowed our customers to take prime position in their chosen market spaces. The key focus of the company is to build a clear partnership with our customers and manufacturing partners by providing open and clear communications between the design teams, ensuring that customer’s needs are reflected in the specification of the products and solutions we provide. This is achieved through providing highly trained and educated product specialists close to our customers, who speak the dialect of our customers both culturally and technically. The company has evolved over the last quarter of a century, and is split into three divisions – Electronic, Opto and Thermal Management, with offices in 5 European countries from which we strive to service our European customers. As Europe has evolved so has AMS through a centralized order processing & stock system, so that we can focus on best in class after sales support and build on our goal to focus on the customers needs.  For defence and military markets, our products range from solid state light sources for target illumination, to sensitive IR detectors for counter measures, fast InGaAs photodetectors and components for FOGs from the Opto-Electronic division.  Our high voltage, RF and Thermo product portfolio includes high reliability capacitors and relays and thermal management solutions such as heat sinks, chillers and cold plates.  AMS Technologies will continue to endeavour to offer the best service to our customers and manufacturing partners for the next quarter century and beyond.

Accelerating Product and Process Development through Micro and Nano Technologies

The Centre of Excellence in Metrology for Micro and Nano Technologies (CEMMNT) provides a unique measurement and characterisation service for industry. Its network of partners collaborates to give open access to state of the art equipment for materials and device measurement and characterisation at the micro and nano scale and unrivalled inter-disciplinary problem solving expertise. Both routine measurements and large scale bespoke development and diagnostic projects can be undertaken.

A complete range of microscopy and profilometry measurement facilities are complemented by extensive characterisation techniques to map dimensions and surfaces, material properties, and functional performance, including chemical composition, surface modulus, stress, wear, film thickness, and thermal, electrical and rheological properties. CEMMNT can additionally offer a systems engineering analysis and design approach for tackling larger customer projects, applying modeling and simulation techniques to solve complex problems. Our expertise spans all industry sectors utilizing technology, from advanced semiconductors to engineering devices, novel materials, food and drink, and life sciences. CEMMNT is funded by the UK Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and its partner organisations, which has enabled its partners to implement new science and technology through the installation of additional laboratories, clean room facilities, and cutting edge instrumentation.

Instrumentation and measurement expertise at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), QinetiQ, and Ametek Taylor Hobson are complemented by the project design capabilities of the Systems Engineering Innovation Centre (SEIC), established by BAE Systems with Loughborough University, and the modeling software knowledge of Coventor. The network is coordinated by the CEMMNT Hub, based at the SEIC in Loughborough.

CEMMNT enables and accelerates the integration of micro and nano technologies into product and process development across the full product life cycle from requirements capture and prototype to manufacture and packaging. By running training courses, workshops, and networking events, CEMMNT facilitates knowledge transfer of micro and nano metrology and creates awareness of its cost benefits throughout industry.

Efield brings the concept of virtual prototyping into the field of electromagnetic design. Virtual prototyping means that you build computer models of your product and study its properties by solving the governing equations for the physical problem instead of making physical prototypes or measurements. In electromagnetics virtual prototyping means solving the Maxwell equations. This will save you time and costs. It will improve your understanding and make your products more innovative.

We offer an integrated environment for computational electromagnetics containing a complete set of solution techniques, including novel hybrid methods between:

	Finite Difference
	Finite Element
	Method of Moments
	Fast Multipole Method
	High Frequency Methods

We help designers of complex systems make their product development process faster, more efficient and more cost-effective by delivering the most complete and best integrated electromagnetic simulation system in combination with a helpful support organisation of high quality.

Filtronic plc is a world leader in the design and manufacture of a broad range of customised RF, microwave and millimetre wave cellular, Defence and broadband components and subsystems. The company's products are used in wireless communication infrastructure equipment, cellular handsets, electronic defence systems, and cable communication systems. Filtronic can supply products for every significant transmission standard and modulation system in the world, operating at any frequency.

Filtronic Components precision engineering capabilities range from narrow and broadband filters and GaAs devices & MMIC's through MIC hybrids, amplifiers, Synthesisers, couplers, switches, lumped element, cavity, dielectric, suspended substrate and waveguide filtering to unique complex subsystem integration's such as transmitter/receivers, frequency translation and storage subsystems for Airborne, Naval & Ground applications.

Filtronic's strategic objective is to become the world's leading RF electronics company by utilising its proprietary technologies and engineering expertise throughout the world and applying these competencies to markets which offer opportunities for sustainable and exceptional rates of growth and return. Filtronic addresses these opportunities by designing and supplying sophisticated and customised RF microwave and millimetric products to meet its customers' requirements and by continuing to develop its global relationships with these customers.

The Company is an ISO9001:2000 approved quality focused business.

Gedae simplifies the complexities of programming complex signal and data processing applications by providing a development environment for multiprocessor and multicore systems.  Gedae automates the most complex and tedious parts of the development process to maximize efficiency.  Developers can specify the functionality of an application and map it to a hardware architecture in a fraction of the time previously required.  Gedae accommodates user control of automation.  Developers observe the behavior of an application and adjust the processing mapping, interprocessor communications, granularity, buffering, memory mapping, thread management, and executable structure.

IBM and Gedae have formed an alliance to address the challenges associated with programming multicore processors. The Cell Broadband Engine processor addresses many of the recent hurdles encountered by companies using traditional architectures. Developed by IBM in collaboration with Sony and Toshiba, the Cell B.E. is a compelling new alternative to other microprocessors due to its revolutionary multicore architecture and associated performance advantages. Our booth will feature a tracking demonstration programmed in Gedae using the Cell B.E. on a Sony Playstation 3, getting real time audio data from 4 microphones to track a model train as it goes around a track.

Gedae, Inc. was formed in January 2001 to complete the commercial development of Gedae. We will continue to improve and expand our software's capabilities. Gedae is a product designed by engineers for engineers. Our mission is to make it easier for engineers to develop digital signal and data processing applications and products. We provide excellent technical support and training to help you effectively use the many capabilities. Our success depends on the success of our customers. While it's true we are a fairly new company, Gedae is not a new concept to us. Our staff includes computer scientists who were responsible for the original version of our software in the late 1980's, and for the first commercially released version in 1997.   Gedae is an international company with users in the United States, Europe and Asia. Gedae is being used to build deployed software on large scale programs and in numerous other development environments for tasks ranging from rapid prototype development to system simulation to system demonstrators.