Summary
The Open Call is one of the funding competition mechanisms DASA uses to find proposals that address challenges faced by government stakeholders. It gives bidders the opportunity to present their ideas to defence and security stakeholders at any time, without waiting for a relevant Themed Competition.
The Open Call is looking for innovative ideas to improve the defence and/or security of the UK. Your idea could be a concept, technology or service.
Whilst the Open Call welcomes a wide range of innovative ideas to solve problems faced by our defence and security customers, DASA is keen to share insight on specific topics of interest.
This specific topic of interest is “Operate and deliver effects in contested domains”.
Eligibility
DASA submissions are welcome from the private sector, academia, individuals (i.e. sole traders) and public sector research establishments. Two categories:
Technology readiness levels:
Scope
UK Armed Forces currently face heavily contested environments across the air, land, sea, and particularly the space and cyber domains, which is of significant threat to the security of our information and could lead to disruption in the use of our space-based capabilities.
Freedom to use our information networks and the electromagnetic spectrum is essential as this is the medium for communication between forces during operations and for our most effective sensors. These mediums can be used by adversaries as a source of information and can also leave us at a tactical disadvantage were they to be disrupted or disabled.
Proposals should consider we need to be robust and resilient and have the ability to disrupt/degrade adversary capabilities. DASA seek novel ideas which could be used by the UK Armed Forces to do one, or several, of the below:
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