This Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) competition aims to attract novel technological solutions from a broad range of innovators in order to alleviate some of the UK’s Defence and Security space challenges. Innovation is crucial to advance solutions towards these challenges, for example acquiring a greater detail of intelligence, enhanced protection of our space-based assets and further advancements in the underpinning ground segments.

What are we looking for?

We want novel ideas to benefit users working in UK Defence and Security. Your proposal should include evidence of:

• Theoretical development, methodological advancement or proof of concept research which can demonstrate potential for translation to practical demonstration in later phases.

• An innovative or a creative approach.

• A clear demonstration of how the proposed work applies to any Defence and Security context.

What we are not looking for

For this drop we are not interested in proposals that:

• Constitute consultancy or literature reviews which just summarise the existing literature without any view of future development;

• Are an identical resubmission of a previous bid to DASA or MOD without modification;

• Present more than one bid with the same technical idea amended for the different contract lengths;

• Offer demonstrations of off-the-shelf products requiring no experimental development (unless applied in a novel way to the challenge);

• Offer no real long-term prospect of integration into UK defence and security capabilities;

• Offer no real prospect of out-competing existing technological solutions

• Do not fall clearly into one challenge as outlined above;

• Need an extensive requirements development phase.

For space-specific aspects, we are not interested in:

• Technologies or systems relating to space launch vehicles;

• Proposals looking at general Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST) or visualisation of objects in space;

• Space technologies where the commercial market is already strongly invested or interested (e.g. general satellite communications or solar power systems);

• Proposals relating to human space flight and exploration;

• Proposals which could be considered an irresponsible use of space (e.g. generating unnecessary debris, or violating international treaties);

• Methods of processing space-derived imagery or data, e.g. through artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML) methods

Please note

This event will be recorded and held on MS Teams, with Q&A facilitated by Slido https://app.sli.do/event/uqHuPSVVccr9du4jA8dXBU.
Registration for this event will close on Wednesday 24 May 2023 at midday.
Instructions on how to join the event and how to submit questions will be sent to the email address used in registration by 6pm Wednesday 24 May 2023. If you haven't received anything by that time, please check your junk folder, or email accelerator@dstl.gov.uk.
This webinar will be recorded, with the intention to publish outcomes with all innovators. All questions and answers will be moderated prior to release onto GOV.UK
The information you provide will be retained by the Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) to contact you in regards to this event, and any future DASA communications that may be relevant to you. Please indicate on the registration if this is something you do not wish to do.

DASA Enterprise Collaboration Service Account

The Enterprise Collaboration Service is DASA’s proposal submission service. To access DASA’s services, apply for funding and be notified of competitions relevant to you, you must have an account.

Read more about how you can register for an account on the DASA website - https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/defence-and-security-accelerator-submit-your-research-proposal

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