Background
Mike Madden, DASA Innovation Partner South West of England, discussed the Defence and Security Accelerator Overview at the SWCSC Networking Meeting this month.
DASA
- Created 5 years ago
- Find and fund exploitable innovation to support UK defence and security quickly and effectively, and support UK prosperity
- Innovation
- Part of a wider innovation ecosystem across defence and security
- They come to DASA with problems and cash, DASA go back to them with solutions…
- How to get involved?
- Market explorations
- Competitions
- Themed competitions (customer pull), open call competitions (innovator push)
- Networking events
- Mentoring and finance services
- Current Open Call Competitions (www.gov.uk/government/collections/apply-for-funding)
- Open call – Defence
- Emerging and Rapid Impact Innovation Tracks
- Closes 5 Jan 2022
- Open Call – Security
- Rapid Impact Innovations Track
- Closes 5 Jan 2022
- Innovation Focus Areas
- IFA028 – Autonomous Resilient Cyber Defence Intelligent Agents (ARCD)
- IFA029 – Reducing the Cyber Attack Surface (RCAS)
- IFA030 – Military Systems Information Assurance
Dstl Cyber – What we do
- Cyber Defence S&T provides innovative, agile and timely outcomes to support MOD and UK Government delivering cyber resilience.
- Focus: Non-conventional IT systems. Working with sever constraints in bandwidth, power, or space.
- New Opportunity: Explore the convergence of cyber hardening, cryptographic techniques, and autonomous cyber defence. Reduce the attack surface, raise the barrier to entry.
Dstl Cyber – How are we going to do it?
- Harden the system: Reduce the cyber-attack surface
- Protect the information: Information assurance
- Defend at pace: Autonomous resilient cyber defence
Routes to Market:
- Innovation and High-Risk ideas: DASA
- Targeted Research Through Frameworks: SERAPIS, SECTORED, ASTRID, Electronic Warfare & Cyber
Contact DSAS:
- Email – accelerator@dstl.gov.uk
- Website – www.gov.uk/dasa
- Twitter – @DASAccelerator
- LinkedIn – Defence and Security Accelerator
