The 19th CMAS World Underwater Hockey Championships took place from March 25th to April 2nd 2016 in Stellenbosch, Republic of South Africa with a participation of 17 countries. Great Britain (GB) took 4 teams with these being Men and Women teams for Elite and Masters categories.
Polaris employee Andrew Stillwell (who can be pictured far left in below photo) formed part of the GB Men’s team who recently claimed the Silver medal.
Polaris Consulting is pleased to announce that it has been awarded the contract to deliver Operational Analysis (OA) services to the Maritime Warfare Centre (MWC) in the area of Land and Littoral Manoeuvre Warfare. The MWC is an alliance of Service personnel, scientists, and analysts, whose purpose is to create battle-winning tactics for the Royal Navy. Polaris will provide analysis to help the Centre shape policy and tactics, enabling the UK’s Armed Services to meet the challenge of future operations in the littoral. This two year contract builds on Polaris’ already extensive track record of delivering analysis in the maritime domain to Dstl, DE&S and UK industry.
Polaris are pleased to announce they will be exhibiting at DPRTE in Cardiff on 16th March 2016. Come and visit us on Stand 3.
Polaris’ MD, David Bangert, was pleased to attend the University of Portsmouth Chancellor’s Dinner, held at the Guildhall on Friday 4 March. The invitation reflected Polaris’ close working relationship with the University, which has been strengthened recently through jointly securing three contracts from the Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE) and the award of a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) to deliver innovative research in the Offshore Wind Sector.
Polaris Consulting are currently looking to recruit a Defence Cost Analyst at Consultant level for our Bristol office. For further information please email: resourcing@polarisconsulting.co.uk
Polaris Consulting Limited are delighted to announce that three Polaris led projects in excess of £250,000 have been successfully funded as part of the MOD Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE) Autonomy and Big Data for Defence competition. Two of the projects are designed to exploit big data analysis methods to improve maritime autonomous vehicle decision making. The third project will apply novel machine learning techniques to support intelligence analysis processing. Polaris are supported by a local Solent consortium consisting of ASV Ltd, BMT ARGOSS and the University of Portsmouth’s cross-faculty Centre for Operational Research and Logistics (CORL), which brings together the Department of Mathematics, the Institute of Industrial Research (IIR), and the Business School. For further details please email info@polarisconsulting.co.uk.
Sam joined Polaris in January 2016 as an Analyst after completing his MSc project in collaboration with the company. Both his MSc in Logistics and Supply Chain Management, and BSc (Hons) in Mathematics with Statistics, were completed at the University of Portsmouth. His studies developed a wide range of skills including Operational Analysis, Supply Chain Management, Logistics, and Statistics.
Since starting, Sam has continued to develop the project started at University as well as undertaking various other analytical tasks.
Polaris announced as winners of 3 CDE bids in Big Data and Autonomy challenge.
Thanks to everyone for making the recent company Christmas Lunch a really enjoyable occasion. It was great to have everyone all together from our offices to share this.
