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Sts Defence Limited

STS Defence Solutions that make a difference

Sts Defence Limited is a UK company with status active founded in 1996 based in South East England.

CRN
03193298
Founded
1996
Age
30

Overview

Legal name
STS DEFENCE LIMITED
Region
South East England
Registered address
STS DEFENCE LIMITED
MUMBY ROAD
GOSPORT
ENGLAND
PO12 1AF
Insolvency history
No

Corporate ownership

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Company events

Reference milestones and recent Companies House filing stream events.

8 events
30 Sep
2027

Accounts due

Accounts Due

Next accounts due date

26 Mar
2027

Confirmation statement due

Confirmation Due

Next confirmation statement due date

04 Apr
2026

Accounts With Accounts Type Full

Accounts PDF pending

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12 Mar
2026

Confirmation statement filed

Confirmation

Last confirmation statement made up date

31 Dec
2025

Accounts filed

Accounts

Last accounts made up date

05 Sep
2024

Accounts Amended With Accounts Type Full

Accounts PDF pending

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22 Aug
2024

Accounts With Accounts Type Total Exemption Full

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01 May
1996

Incorporated

Inception

Company registered at Companies House

Public funding

8 awards
First funded
2011
Funded years
2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019
Age at first award
14 years

Projects

2019 Knowledge Transfer Partnership

University of Portsmouth and STS Defence Limited

1 Nov 2019 to 30 Nov 2020

Awarded
Unknown

To develop a communications unit with 2 key features; the ability to intelligently compress the data to reduce its size whilst preserving its value, as well as the ability to choose the best method of transmitting the data (e.g. satellite, WIFI, 2/3/4g) in terms of cost, application and urgency.

2017 Feasibility Studies

360 Nuclear Knowledge

1 Feb 2017 to 31 Oct 2017

Awarded
£17,960
Total cost £29,933

Stickyworld and STS Nuclear are collaborating to test the technical and commercial feasibility of media rich communications for engaging staff and supply chain in smarter knowledge sharing around the decommissioning process. Exploring a combination of immersive photography and video providing visual context to data sharing, the team aim to demonstrate the...

2016 Collaborative R&D

iWave

1 Jun 2016 to 31 May 2019

Awarded
£114,616
Total cost £193,972

Corrosion in pipelines costs the Oil & Gas sector millions of pounds in clean-up, maintenance and litigation. Guided Wave systems are used to conduct long range inspections of pipelines to detect corrosion remotely, particularly in inaccessible areas. There is a requirement from the industry to monitor the health of pipeline infrastructure and a trend tow...

2015 Collaborative R&D Lead participant

Project IConIC (Intelligent Condition monitoring with Integrated Communications)

1 Jan 2015 to 31 Dec 2016

Awarded
£412,556
Total cost £687,594

Project IConIC (Intelligent Condition monitoring with Integrated Communications) will develop a revolutionary system that provides accurate prediction for vessel performance and operation. It represents a step-change in the marine industry, through linking autonomous measurement systems to existing maritime satellite communications. The performance of mar...

2014 Feasibility Studies Lead participant

Project CLAIMS (Coolant Leak Artifically Intelligent Monitoring System

1 Nov 2014 to 31 Mar 2016

Awarded
£111,500
Total cost £148,667

Project CLAIMS (Coolant Leak Artificially Intelligent Monitoring System) will provide a technology demonstrator, of advanced automated condition monitoring system for detection and classification of leaks from the primary circuits of designs of light water reactors. Nuclear plants are valuable, high capital cost assets with long operating lifetimes delive...

2014 GRD Development of Prototype Lead participant

FiRST - Fire-fighter Rescue and Support Technology

1 Aug 2014 to 31 Dec 2015

Awarded
£148,895
Total cost £435,555

Project FiRST (Fire-fighter Rescue and Support Technology) will produce a pre-production prototype of a novel Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) concept, that provides a stepchange in fire-fighter situational awareness when tackling fires in a range of environments, but particularly those challenges represented by fighting fires indoors. Fire-fighters ta...

2014 Knowledge Transfer Partnership

University of Portsmouth and STS Defence Limited

1 Jan 2014 to 31 Dec 2014

Awarded
Unknown

To develop and embed a capability for statistical pattern recognition and indoor location estimation techniques to provide improved threat assessment and early warning systems for personnel in hazardous search and rescue environments.

2013 Vouchers Lead participant

STS Defence

1 Oct 2013 to 30 Apr 2014

Awarded
£5,000
Total cost £5,000

STS Defence are a Gosport-based SME, providing contract manufacturing & through-life system engineering services; engaging with our customers through experience, expertise and a commitment to quality.STS Defence had a turnover of £12.1m in 2012.We focus on working in partnership with customers developing initial concepts into reality, leveraging over 40 y...

2011 Knowledge Transfer Partnership

University of Portsmouth And STS Defence Limited

1 Feb 2011 to 31 Jan 2014

Awarded
Unknown

To develop an intelligent commercial data collection system for in-transit condition monitoring for the transportation of high value equipment. To develop novel hardware and original embedded software based on Associate 1's algorithms to produce a licensable, commercially viable in-transit condition monitoring device(s).

Product types

Collaborative R&D Feasibility Studies GRD Development of Prototype Knowledge Transfer Partnership Vouchers