Summary

Innovate UK has allocated up to £8million to fund research and development projects in this competition. The aim is to fund a range of projects that work to enrich and expand the Digital Security by Design (DSbD) software ecosystem prior to the availability of commercial hardware.

Projects will leverage the DSbD Technology Hardware Prototype (also known as Morello Board) to work on a focused area within a selected and specified software stack or Operating System (OS) or developer toolchain used by a digital system.

Your project must focus on either of the following:

·       enriching the evolving Morello Stacks

·       expanding overall support and make available additional DSbD enabled software stacks, toolchains and components

Eligibility

Your project must:

·       request total grant from £200,000 to £1.4 million

·       start on or after 1 April 2022, end by 31 December 2024

·       last between 12 and 30 months

·       carry out all of its project work in the UK

·       intend to exploit the results from or in the UK

To lead a project or work alone your organisation must be a UK registered business of any size or a research organisation.

You cannot use any application previously submitted to UKRI to apply for this competition.

For research organisation led projects, 100% of project costs can be claimed at 80% FEC. For industry led projects, you could get funding for your eligible project costs of:

·       up to 80%if you are a micro or small organisation

·       up to 80%if you are a medium-sized organisation

·       up to 50%if you are a large organisation

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