Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE) Innovation Network. CDE opportunities and requirements.

1. Centre
Defence
Enterprise
for
Andy Nicholson
Head of CDE

2. Session scope
CDE opportunities
Enduring competition briefings
Effective proposals

3. Military capability
Advantage
Persistent

4. The aim of CDE
Prove the value of innovative,
high-risk, high-potential-benefit
research to enable development
of cost-effective military capability
advantage
Defence White Paper – National Security Through Technology Feb 2012

5. The aim of CDE
Technology
Best providers
Barriers

6. Rapid technological change
Defence
Other markets
Utilisation

7. Opportunities
Awareness
Network
Funding

8. Managing innovation
Innovation
Future capability
Proof of
concept
Development
CDE
MOD + industry

9. CDE operating principles
Key
Applied
Consistent

10. Engaging innovators
SMEs
Academia
Wider industry

11. Funded opportunities
Fair
Equitable
Accessible

12. Sustained incentive
Guarantee
Support
Feedback

13. Minimise participation costs
Bidding
Contracting
Investment

14. Compliance
Fair
Transparent
Auditable

15. Intellectual property
Defcon705
Benevolent
Rights of use

16. Two routes to funding
Enduring
Themed

17. Enduring competition
Perpetual
Radical
£3M per year

18. Enduring competition
Challenges
Enduring
9+1 framework

19. Framework
Human performance
Lethality
Protection
Mobility
Lower cost of ownership

20. Framework
Situational awareness
Communication
Data
Power
New capabilities

21. Enduring challenge
Today:
Cyber programme
Combat Air programme

22. Themed competition
Requirements
Bounded
Specific

23. Themed competition today
Novel EOIR
£ 600,000

24. CDE
How has CDE performed?

25. CDE index
4954
Proposals received in 5½ years

26. CDE index
800
Proposals funded in 5½ years

27. CDE index
£44M
Invested in innovation over 5½ years

28. CDE index
17%
Of proposals funded

29. CDE index
45%
Proposals funded with SMEs

30. What next for CDE?
Opportunities
Social capital
Funding

31. Innovation Network events
Modular
Opportunity
Value

32. Innovation Network events
25 March 2014
Featuring
‘future sonar’
and
‘innate response targets for therapy’

33. The proposal
The essentials

34. Online bid submission
CDE Portal
Only route
Low overhead

35. A successful proposal
Clear
Concise
Evidence based

36. Description
First thing
Imagination
Assessors

37. Unclassified
Mandatory
Including work
No exceptions

38. Assessment
60
Minutes
Each assessor
Per proposal
As presented

39. Not an exam
Structure
Information
Choice

40. Commercial tab
Vital
Acceptance
Assessors

41. Government-Furnished X
Unique
Vital
Proportionate

42. Health and safety
Safe work
Risks
Management

43. Ethics
Testing
Clearance
Partition

44. In it to win it
Deadline
Plan
Submit early

45. Centre
Defence
Enterprise
for