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.

The UK Aerospace & Defence Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) task is to help promote innovation and collaboration across UK industry, Government and academia, helping to improve industrial performance and implement the UK National Aerospace Technology Strategy (NATS).

Priorities include:

• To deliver improved industrial performance through innovation and new collaboration maximising the impact of new research and technology and better co-ordination of resources for the delivery of NATS.
• To make the UK a more globally competitive environment for investment in aerospace and defence research and technology.
• To facilitate innovation and knowledge transfer across the civil and defence sectors and enable closer collaboration between academia, industry and the Ministry of Defence.
• To improve coherency and effectiveness of industry in science, technology and innovation towards Government, supported by more rigorous analysis and technology road-mapping.

Funding is jointly provided by the UK Technology Strategy Board and the Ministry of Defence.

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.

Antycip Simulation is the European leader in the distribution and support of independent modelling and simulation COTS tools as well as projection solutions for the training and simulation industry.

Incorporated in 1997, Antycip Simulation is recognised as the expert in the delivery of independent modelling and simulation COTS software tools, hardware toolkits and simulation projection solutions.

With over 10 years of presence in training, simulation, visualisation and virtual reality, Antycip Simulation has regional offices with commercial and engineering support in France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Sweden, Italy and Spain.

Antycip's core competencies include:

	Simulation & training commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software tools
	Integrated and immersive projection solutions
	Consultancy services and customised simulation and training solutions

Antycip Simulation is proud to distribute, represent and support the products from MÄK Technologies, DiSTI, Boston Dynamics, Bionatics, CMLabs, Kynogon, HarrisImageLinks®, Scalable Networks Technologies, TerraSim, TrianGraphics, OKTAL, Polysim, RTDynamics, ART, 3DPerception, projectiondesign and Christie Digital throughout Europe.

Since March 1st, 2008 ST Electronics (Training & Simulation Systems) Pte Ltd (STEE-T&S) has acquired 60 % of Antycip Simulation share capital.

BAE Systems Advanced Technology Centre (ATC) delivers the frontline in technology innovation, acquisition, development and insertion for BAE Systems and its joint venture organisations. The service offering of the ATC covers research and development, consultancy, specialist manufacturing and technology brokering and provides for the development and creation of future technology capability over a broad spectrum of disciplines. The 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. Long term strategic capability development to support the future growth and technological positioning of BAE Systems and its customers are addressed by the ATC through the instigation and pursuit of areas of key importance to future defence requirements.

Research activity involves multi-disciplinary teams drawn from across the ATC and the supply chain to ensure the technologies and products developed support current and future customer needs. The programmes currently instigated cover areas such as Micro and Nano technologies, Autonomous Systems, Battlespace Information and Knowledge, BioFutures and Directed Energy Warfare. In addition, an Underpinning Technology programme addressing generic technologies provides a solid basis for future investment and capability planning.

Our core skills cover an extensive range of disciplines from Sensors and Communications to Autonomy and Human Factors. Future technologies under development within academia and other research institutes are carefully monitored and evaluated by the ATC to assess the potential impact and exploitation to BAE Systems and its customers. As well as developing new technologies and capabilities, the ATC is able to provide key resources, skills and knowledge to its customer base.

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.

CES was founded in 1981. CES has been active in major programmes related to fixed wing, rotary wing and UAV/UCAV platforms.

Adopting a product development strategy based on a building block approach, a scalable open architecture promoting COTS and technology insertion, CES designs and manufactures airborne equipment and bundled packaged modules dedicated to data acquisition, acquisition and processing in 3 vertical markets:

	Telecom market: networks controllers
	Aerospace and Defense market: Ground test rigs; Flight test systems; Flight control computer and Mission computers
	High Energy and Nuclear Physics: Accelerator control and data acquisition

With a strong multi national workforce, two subsidiaries in Europe and one in USA, CES has developed worldwide business with the major players in each of its three vertical markets. Over the years, CES has extended its expertise in safety critical application dealing with DO-178B and DO-254 design certification processes.

Products range include PPC real time processor boards, Avionics and Network interface with associated low level software (BSP; driver, API); various type of chassis/enclosure.

CST develops and markets software for the simulation of electromagnetic fields in all frequency bands. Founded in 1992, CST has continuously enhanced its position as market and technology leader in 3D Time Domain simulation. With over 145 employees worldwide and a network of qualified distributors, 180 people are dedicated to developing and supporting of our EM products in more than 30 countries.

CST's flagship product, CST MICROWAVE STUDIO® (CST MWS) is the leading edge tool for the fast and accurate simulation of high frequency (HF) devices such as antennas, filters, couplers, planar and multi-layer structures and SI and EMC effects. Our customers operate in diverse industries including Telecommunications, Defense, Automotive, Electronics, and Medical Equipment, and include market leaders such as IBM®, Intel®, Mitsubishi, Samsung, and Siemens.

CST MWS offers considerable product to market advantages such as shorter development cycles, virtual prototyping before physical trials, and optimization instead of experimentation. Besides the market leading time domain simulator, which uses proprietary PERFECT BOUNDARY APPROXIMATION (PBA)® technology, CST MWS offers frequency domain on hexahedral and tetrahedral meshes, an Integral Equation solver for large structures, and a fast s-parameter solver dedicated to highly resonant structures. Features include robust optimization, co-simulation with best-in-class tools and powerful scripting capabilities. Filters for the import of specific CAD files and the extraction of SPICE parameters enhance design possibilities and save time. CST MWS is seen by an increasing number of engineers as the industry standard development tool.

Cranfield University at the Defence Academy is a cutting edge research establishment with facilities to enable specialised and generic research to be carried out on the latest defence technology.

The University has a strong C4ISTAR orientation. It carries out fundamental and strategic research in a multi-disciplinary manner in the areas of platform design and management, sensors and data fusion, sensor and communication system design and soft computing and optimisation.

We would be pleased to discuss these and other topics during the EM&RS & SEAS DTC Conference or contact: mlewis.cu@defenceacademy.mod.uk

The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) is an agency of the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and exists to supply the very best impartial, scientific and technical research and advice to MOD and other government departments.

Dstl's unique position at the heart of the MOD means that our advice is trusted by government, academia, industry and our international partners. With more than 3,500 staff dedicated to a spectrum of scientific and technical disciplines, we are geared for rapid problem solving. Multi-disciplinary, specialist teams, tailored for each task, can be quickly assembled and have a proven ability to provide innovative solutions under time pressure.

AS MOD's lead for all its international research collaboration programmes, Dstl actively seeks science and technological collaboration with national and international partners in academia, industry and government. We are proactive in building relationships with organisations and countries where there is a close alignment with the UK's strategic technical priorities.

Dstl's Knowledge and Information Services provides access to Dstl's internal knowledge base, MOD funded reports and the wider scientific and technical literature, together with a range of information and analysis services.