Accelerator Enduring Challenge Competition Launch Opening Session

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Defence and Security AcceleratorEnduring Challenge competition relaunch

Defence and Security Accelerator

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Defence and Security AcceleratorDefence and Security Accelerator

Welcome and introduction to the AcceleratorRob Solly, Head of the Defence and Security Accelerator

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• Overview of the Accelerator Enduring Challenge• Key note speech from Harriett Baldwin MP• Perspectives and technology challenges from a Security

Agency, the Royal Navy, Army and RAF • Meet the Enduring Challenge Experts

• Exhibitions open from 1330 – access to military advisers and technical experts

Agenda for the day

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IRIS

Ideas Exploitation

Users & Investors

Fund

Fund

Advice & AccessAdvice & Access

InformInform

Innovation Fund

Fund

IRIS = Innovation and Research InSight Unit

Colla

boration

Inform

The role of the Accelerator

Suppliers & Inventors

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Collaboration to accelerate exploitation

Accelerator Capability delivered to Defence & Security community

Improved understanding potential markets Marketable products

Procurable solutionsImproved understanding potential solutions

Suppliers & Inventors

Users & Investors

Ideas Exploitation

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• Extend our reach to anyone with innovative ideas• Hold regular themed competitions to address specific

defence and security challenges• Promote the Accelerator Enduring Challenge to more

broadly capture potential innovations that address the most important issues for defence and security

• Improve routes to exploitation, following initial Accelerator proof-of-concept funding

Our priorities

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Operate and improve

Develop

Jan 2017 – Dec 2017

Jan 2018 – June 2019

Capability• Recruit Accelerator team• Innovation partners• Online collaboration portal• Enhanced collaboration

mechanisms (virtual and physical ideas generation and experimentation)

Operations• Enduring challenge (phase 1)• Specific innovation

challenges (phase 1)

Capability• Further experimentation

and demonstration initiatives

• Increase the funnel for exploitation of ideas

Operations• Phase 2 of enduring

challenge and specific innovation challenges

Accelerator timescales

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• Developing new capabilities over time• The plan isn’t fixed, we’re experimenting• We want to hear your ideas

Applying an experimental approach

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Enduring challenge overviewJim Pennycook, Innovation partner


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Why an Enduring competition?

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Enduring need

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Enduring challengecompetition

PowerProvision/sources, non-fossil,

hybrid, management, fuel efficiency

CommunicationsSecure, unsecure, mobile,

novel forms

Situational AwarenessSensors, precision navigation

& timing, reduced GPS dependability, surveillance

LethalityWeapons – conventional,

novel directed energy, defence, less-than-lethal

MobilityPlatforms [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

ProtectionPersonnel, platforms,

facilities, digital systems, materials

DataCyber, information, big data,

management and processing, sense-making, visualisation,

delivery, interoperability

9 challenge areas for defence and security

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Previous enduring challenge

2148 proposals received

234 proposals funded

11% success rate

51% of contracts placed with SMEs

£18.6 million invested

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An enhanced enduring challenge

Increased focus on exploitationInvolvement of securityMultiple points of entry for innovators

Welcome non technology based solutions

Increased funding

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Enduring principles

Engage with all innovatorsProvide funded opportunitiesMinimise participation costs

Foster a healthy attitude to risk

Maintain a benevolent stance on IP

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Enduring Challenge – How it worksBruce Hardie, Enduring Competition Manager

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Exceptional Ideas

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Enduring challengecompetition

PowerProvision/sources, non-fossil,

hybrid, management, fuel efficiency

CommunicationsSecure, unsecure, mobile,

novel forms

Situational AwarenessSensors, precision navigation

& timing, reduced GPS dependability, surveillance

LethalityWeapons – conventional,

novel directed energy, defence, less-than-lethal

MobilityPlatforms [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

ProtectionPersonnel, platforms,

facilities, digital systems, materials

DataCyber, information, big data,

management and processing, sense-making, visualisation,

delivery, interoperability

9 challenge areas for defence and security

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Phase 1

TRL 7

TRL 2

TRL 3

TRL 4

TRL 5

TRL 6

Phase 2

Operational Space

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Phase 1

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Phase 2

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Submission Service

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Create An Account

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Classification

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Assessment

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A. Impact on defence and security

B. Likelihood of Exploitation

C. Advancing important innovation

D. Innovation and scientific quality

E. Level of challenge

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Assessment Categories

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Support

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Summary

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KeynoteHarriett Baldwin MP, Minister for Defence Procurement

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Coffee break

Accelerator Enduring Challenge Competition Launch Opening Session

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