Existing defence collaborations are bedevilled by conflicting budget cycles (when country A has money for research, country B has none).
Britain's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, working in collaboration with AkzoNobel, a maker of paint and specialty chemicals, proposes doing the job with a fancy sort of paint.Technology Quarterly Sweeping below deck A good kind of gas-guzzling Encouraging hydrophobia You, robot?
Instead, Britain's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, working in collaboration with AkzoNobel, a paints company, proposes to do the job with special paint.As is often the case with paint jobs, the new anti-chemical-weapon paint needs an undercoat and a top coat.
It is developing a ballistic missile defence shield and, in collaboration with Russia, a fifth-generation fighter jet.
But with so many top Americans patriotically snubbing the event, transatlantic collaboration in the defence industry is becoming harder, just when Europeans most need it.The big problem for European defence companies has long been how to break into America, which accounts for half of the world market for defence goods and is growing faster than Europe.
They pledged to deepen bilateral collaborations on energy, defence and security, among other issues.The choreography of the visits suggests that Vladimir Putin's government may still look to Vietnam as an important business and strategic partner or at the very least, as a friend whom it can't afford to snub when passing through the area.Russian firms do brisk business here.
On Wednesday morning, AstraZeneca attempted to boost its defence against Pfizer by unveiling a collaboration with US biotech firm Incyte to test its experimental lung cancer treatment MEDI4736, which the company estimates could generate annual peak sales of $6.5bn£3.9bnbn).
In a pilot study conducted in collaboration with America's Biological Defence Research Directorate, Dr Baillie and his colleagues successfully decontaminated soil that was infested with Bacillus thuringiensis, a close but harmless relative of Bacillus anthracis.
Autonomous Learning Agents for Decentralised Data and Information Networks, to give its full name, is a five-year-old collaboration between BAE Systems, a British defence contractor, the universities of Bristol, Oxford and Southampton, and Imperial College, London.
