
The Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE) has a regular Enduring Challenge competition, which was previously known as the Open Call. CDE typically funds proposals for proof-of-concept research in the range of £40,000 to £100,000 for work of 3 to 9 months duration. The total budget is worth £3 million each year.
This following areas are covered by the programme:
Protection (personnel, platforms, facilities, digital systems, materials)
Situational awareness (sensors, precision navigation and timing, reduced GPS dependability, persistent surveillance, status of digital systems)
Power (provision/sources, non-fossil, hybrid, management, fuel efficiency)
Communications (secure, unsecure, mobile, novel forms)
Data (cyber, information, big data, management and processing, sense-making, visualisation, delivery, interoperability)
Lethality (weapons – conventional, novel, directed energy, defence, less-than-lethal)
Mobility (platforms [air, land, sea, space, human], means of propulsion)
Human performance (physical and mental, systems interface, survivability, training, medical)
Lower cost of ownership (platforms, equipment, facilities)
The competition is open to all highly innovative research ideas that challenge existing conventions and have a high potential benefit for the military end user.
Further information about the competition can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cde-enduring-challenge-competition.
Deadlines are monthly, with the next ones being: 25 June, 23 July, 25 August and 22 September. Applications must be submitted through the CDE online portal: https://innovative.ideas.mod.uk.
The Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE) holds regular events to promote its competitions. This allows networking with technical and military experts, as well as helping to build relationships to encourage working with other science and technology providers. Details of these events can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/centre-for-defence-enterprise-innovation-network-events.
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