{"id":69326,"date":"2016-04-06T10:26:37","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T10:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=93cf5cad877dc2cb4a8fe49763f15fd3"},"modified":"2016-04-06T10:26:37","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T10:26:37","slug":"press-release-reflecting-on-the-importance-of-defence-work-at-porton-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=69326","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Reflecting on the importance of defence work at Porton Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Secretary of State for Defence has been visiting staff at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (<abbr title=\"Defence Science and Technology Laboratory\">Dstl<\/abbr>) at Porton Down to see the work being carried out for the defence and security of the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists, engineers and analysts at the site told Michael Fallon MP about some of their work, including support to the Armed Forces on operations, providing forensic analysis and cyber defence. <\/p>\n<p>As <abbr title=\"Defence Science and Technology Laboratory\">Dstl<\/abbr> marks 100 years of defence operations at the Porton Down site, the Defence Secretary was shown an Enigma coding machine, invented by a German and used by Britain to decipher German signals during World War Two. He was also shown a present day encryption device.<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on the work at the site, Michael Fallon said: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\"><abbr title=\"Defence Science and Technology Laboratory\">Dstl<\/abbr> continues to carry out vital work at a site which has a long history of protecting our Armed Forces, whether through the development of respirators, or innovative new body armour. The ground breaking research continues to help defend the UK from a multitude of threats.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"contact \" id=\"contact_1970\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>\n<abbr title=\"Defence Science and Technology Laboratory\">Dstl<\/abbr> Media Enquiries<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"email\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Email<\/span><br \/>\n              <a class=\"email\" href=\"mailto:press@dstl.gov.uk\">press@dstl.gov.uk<\/a>\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Media enquiries<\/span><br \/>\n              01980 658666\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Out of hours<\/span><br \/>\n              07901 892660\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Defence Secretary visits Dstl as it marks 100 years of defence operations at the site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}