1 novembre 2018 | International, Aérospatial, Naval, Terrestre, C4ISR, Sécurité

UK: Defence and Security Accelerator funding competitions

Details of our current, future and past funding competitions.

Published 8 December 2016
Last updated 30 October 2018 — see all updates

From:

Defence and Security Accelerator and Ministry of Defence

Contents

  1. Events and market interest activities (Open)
  2. Themed competitions (open now for application)
  3. Themed competitions (opening for applications soon)
  4. Past events and market interest activities (closed)
  5. Past themed competitions (closed)

You can submit a Defence and Security Accelerator proposal either to our Open Call for Innovation or in response to the technical challenges in a specific themed competition, as detailed below.

You can submit your themed competition proposal online once the full detailed competition document is published.

Summary competition documents may be published a few weeks in advance of full competition document releases.

Events and market interest activities (Open)

  1. Maximising Human Performance - Market Exploration
    • 18 October 2018
  2. DASA dial in event: many drones make light work competition
    • 18 October 2018

Themed competitions (open now for application)

The competitions below are in order of closing date, earliest at the top.

  1. Competition: predictive cyber analytics
    • 6 September 2018
  2. Competition: Biosensing across wide areas
    • 31 August 2018
  3. Competition: stopping it in its tracks
    • 28 September 2018
  4. Competition: Don't Blow It! Safely eliminating chemical and biological munitions on the battlefield
    • 9 October 2018
  5. Competition: many drones make light work phase 3
    • 18 October 2018
  6. Competition: Behavioural Analytics for Defence and Security
    • 11 October 2018

Themed competitions (opening for applications soon)

Please note we publish these summary documents ahead of publishing the full detailed competition documents to give potential applicants early information on the competition. Full documents are typically published within a couple of weeks of the summary documents.

The competitions below are in order of closing date, earliest at the top.

  1. Competition: Tackling Knife Crime in the UK
    • 30 October 2018

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/defence-and-security-accelerator-funding-competitions

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