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Armed Forces: Health Services

Commons · Question 125353 · Tabled 10 Apr 2026 · Ministry of Defence · Official record

Answered 20 Apr 2026

Question

Asked by Ben Obese-Jecty

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory has made in developing AI triage decision-making in battlefield military medicine in conjunction with the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Answer

Answered by Luke Pollard, 20 Apr 2026

As reported in the press, experts from the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) are collaborating with the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) using hardware and methodologies developed under DARPA's In the Moment (ITM) fundam...