The EDGE® UK

As General Dynamics UK continues to develop within an ever-evolving technical domain, it is clear that innovation is one of the key ingredients to our customers' continued success.

To do this, we need a physical and virtual environment that will enable us to work closely, and collaborate, with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), academia and customers, along with our existing and extensive supply network; to be able to assess and evaluate new technologies and bring them to market quickly.

The Defence Innovation Strategy focuses on creating a 'new environment for innovation within the defence supply chain'. It also states that within defence, innovation is essentially "the successful generation and exploitation of new or, where appropriate, novel applications of existing technology".

General Dynamics' leadership in the C4ISTAR land domain means that we are naturally placed to lead the development of a new facility to harness the necessary future collaboration, and deliver the next evolutionary step-change in mission-winning capabilities, and solutions, that our customers demand.

This facility will be known as EDGE® UK

Testimonials

"Thank you for the very thorough and extremely useful feedback on the Wearable Computing event and in particular on the customer communities thoughts on our own products. Priceless! We found the event well organised, focused and with excellent attendance from the customer community. I would like to thank the EDGE® UK for involving DRS and in particular the team that put so much effort and thought into making the day a success. DRS look forward to working more closely with General Dynamics UK and to making more regular and extensive use of the EDGE® UK facility in demonstrating the viability of our new products and capabilities."

Peter Hurst
Vice President, Business Development
DRS Technologies UK Ltd

"The General Dynamics EDGETM UK facility has given PPM the opportunity to show case our ViaLite RF over Fibre technology to a wider audience of military personnel than ever before. It often proves difficult to make the vast range of applications that ViaLite can be used for come to life in front of customers, but this is exactly what the EDGETM UK achieves. A fixed demonstrator of the ViaLite technology was left in place at the EDGETM UK facility for several weeks to allow visits by UK MOD personnel. Following these visits significant positive feedback on new opportunities to use the ViaLite technology in operational situations have been received. We hope that through our continued collaboration with EDGETM UK we will see further adoption of the ViaLite products with the UK MOD."

Martin Ryan
Sales and Marketing Director
Pulse Power and Measurement Ltd