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Government body behind secret tech opens doors to expand engineering excellence

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A government body which creates secret technologies to support national security is today launching a new drive to work more openly with technology firms and academics.

HMGCC offices, image by HMGCC. Crown Copyright. Cropped from original.

  • A UK government body with a history of secret engineering work for national security is seeking to work with companies and universities more openly than ever before on technology projects to help keep the country safe.
  • His Majesty’s Government Communications Centre (HMGCC), set up in 1938, is a former workplace of computing pioneer Alan Turing who is known for some of the computing innovations which helped shorten the Second World War.
  • Its new initiative, called HMGCC Co-Creation, comes as rapid technological advances pose increasing challenges and opportunities to national security.

    • A government body which creates secret technologies to support national security is today launching a new drive to work more openly with technology firms and academics.

    The initiative by His Majesty’s Government Communications Centre (HMGCC), in partnership with the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) comes as new technologies pose an ever-greater challenge to the people and agencies keeping the UK safe. It will allow HMGCC to work more closely than ever before with the companies and institutions at the forefront of technological innovation, and help the UK solve some of the most difficult problems facing all those working in service of the UK’s national security.

    Partnerships with HMGCC, since it was established in 1938, have so far seen breakthroughs in keeping batteries charged in extremely cold environments, and in building secure telecoms solutions to help UK government organisations keep their people safe in some of the most dangerous parts of the world.

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