01 · Intelligence
Research & Advanced Development
The laboratory: applied research, prototypes, benchmarks and methods built for conditions here.
Sector 13
Research & Academia
Joint research programmes, computational infrastructure, data curation and student pipelines.
What usually goes wrong
The research question needs computation, curated data and engineering effort that no single department can staff, and the work that does get done leaves with the student who did it.
Every engagement starts by writing that paragraph for your organisation specifically, before any technology is named. If it cannot be written, there is no brief yet, and we will say so.
What we would build
Four things this sector commissions.
Assembled from the registered capability lines below. Which of them applies is a scoping conversation, not a brochure.
Joint applied research programmesDefined questions, a method, a benchmark and a published result, run with the institution rather than for it.
Computational infrastructureThe machines, environments and pipelines a laboratory needs, specified, supplied and maintained.
Data curation and research archivesCollections described, versioned, governed and still openable in ten years.
Student and graduate pipelinesPlacements and supervised engineering work that leaves capability inside the institution.
The registered lines
Capability lines this sector commissions.
Each line carries its registered scope in full, word for word from the memorandum, on its own page.
02 · Data
Digitization & Archiving
Paper, maps and legacy records converted into indexed, governed, searchable holdings that outlive their hardware.
04 · Practice
Training & Capacity Building
Transferring the skill, not retaining the dependency.
04 · Practice
Technology Trade & Supply
The hardware underneath: specified, supplied, installed and maintained.
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