This document discusses challenges and opportunities in defense innovation. It outlines many technology areas that could be improved, such as robotics, autonomy, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence. It also summarizes recent defense innovation competitions and their results. The document encourages collaboration between government, academia and industry to address defense problems through innovative solutions.
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Recent competitions
Autonomous hazardous scene assessment
Many drones make light work
Agile and immersive training
Autonomy and big data
Persistent surveillance
Last mile
Revolutionise the human information relationship for Defence
accelerator@dstl.gov.uk
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Allow rapid and automated integration of new
sensors
Revolutionise the human information
relationship for Defence
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Free up personnel by the innovative use of
machine learning algorithms and artificial
intelligence for military advantage
Make effective use of operator cognitive
capacity, particularly by human-machine
teaming accelerator@dstl.gov.uk
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Atlas Elektronic UK Ltd Babcock - Marine Division BAE Systems Blue Bear Systems
BMT Defence Services CAE UK Plc Chemring Technology Solutions Close Air
Solutions Cranfield University Deep Vision Envitia Filtronic Defence Ltd Frazer-
Nash Consultancy General Dynamics UK Ltd HiEta Technologies Ltd HORIBA MIRA
Inzpire Ltd ITSUS Consulting Leonardo Lincad Ltd Marshall Aerospace Morgan
Advanced Materials National Physical Laboratory Northrop Grumman Mission Systems
Europe Plasan Sasa Ltd Plextek Ltd Polaris Consulting Limited QinetiQ Ricardo
UK Ltd Rolls-Royce Scanna Msc Ltd SCISYS UK Ltd SeeByte Ltd Spectra Medical
Limited SVGC Limited Swarm Systems Ltd Thales UK Ltd TNO Ultra Electronics
Sonar Systems VERT Rotors UK Ltd
accelerator@dstl.gov.uk
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Robotics Autonomy Cyber Combat cloud Cost of ownership
Integration of unmanned systems Rehabilitation Blockchain
Simulation Augmented reality Big data Data visualisation
Virtual reality Space Interoperability Artificial intelligence
Secure communications Sensor integration Open mission systems
Medical Secure communications Bandwidth management Data
fusion Rapid decision making Machine learning Logistics New
materials Lightweight armour Precision weapons Obsolescence
management Legal and ethical frameworks Joint operations
Cognitive burden Armour Training
accelerator@dstl.gov.uk
Autonomy
Simulation
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Future Aviation Security Solutions
• joint Home Office/Department for Transport initiative
• committed to investing £25m over five years
• £1.3m invested in first year
• a further £5m of research funding will be allocated in the
coming months
• will include new DASA themed competition on
complex concealments
Notas del editor
Explain ‘Challenge and opportunity’
Expand ‘Challenge’
Expand ‘challenge in context of DSEI:
98 presentations
Over 100 high-level challenges
Reinforce Lucy’s message re innovation
Reinforce Lucy’s message re exploitation (within challenge)
The beginning of challenge articulation
Military capability to deal with what’s coming over the horizon
Importance of attractive challenges.
Recent examples.
Dwell on ‘Revolutionise the human information relationship for Defence’ competition as an example.
Success of competition
Shared £6 million.
Breakdown off the 170 proposals received:
All (%) Fast track Standard track
SME 88 51.7 34 54
Academia 25 14.7 3 22
Industry 57 33.3 11 46
Totals 170 48 122
Breakdown off the 33 proposals offered contracts: 19%
All (%) Fast track Standard track
SME 16 48.5 3 13
Academia 7 21.2 2 5
Industry 10 30.3 2 8
Totals 33 7 26
33 contracts in 28 days
Wide spread of winners
What does this mean for opportunity?
Small things bring big changes.
Route into Defence – and Security
40 companies at DSEI that have taken advantage of Accelerator investment
Some familiar, some new
But many more
Select 2 areas as case studies from previous list
· The Future Aviation Security Solutions programme, a joint Home Office/Department for Transport initiative, is investing £25m over five years to stimulate innovation in Aviation Security. In its first year the programme has funded a broad range of projects to the value of £1.3m and in the coming months will commit a further £5m of research funding through the Defence and Security Accelerator. Some of this funding will be on a new competition, which will be seeking solutions to the specific challenge of complex concealments