Defence and Security Accelerator

This UK Defence Innovation (UKDI) competition, run on behalf of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) and Ministry of Defence (MOD) Defence Medical Services (DMS), seeks innovations addressing challenges in the field of conflict wounds.

Loans of up to £1 million with a below market interest rate of 7.4% per annum to help convert your mature defence innovation into a strong business proposition for defence procurement.

Details of Defence and Security Accelerator funding, organised by the financial year.

This report, produced by Beauhurst, examines the economic activity and growth of companies funded by the Defence and Security Accelerator between 2016 and 2024.

This UKDI competition (in partnership with Dstl) is seeking proposals for innovations which will deliver autonomous sensor management and fusion approaches.

DASA competition for the MOD Test and Evaluation (T&E) Transformation Programme to develop deployable T&E capabilities and regulatory solutions.

The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) uses the Open Call for Innovation to find ideas that address challenges across both Defence and Security landscapes.

Loans of up to £1 million with a below market interest rate of 7.4% per annum to help convert your mature defence innovation into a strong business proposition for defence procurement.

Loans of up to £1 million with a below market interest rate of 7.4% per annum to help convert your mature defence innovation into a strong business proposition for defence procurement.

Innovation thrives in every region of the United Kingdom. This booklet highlights unique UKDI funded innovations, from each region of the UK.

This Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) competition is to accelerate the adoption of PYRAMID Reference Architecture (PRA) in avionics and mission systems.

Loans of up to £1 million with a below market interest rate of 7.4% per annum to help convert your mature defence innovation into a strong business proposition for defence procurement.

This Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) competition seeks innovative, cost-competitive proposals designed for manufacture and scalable in twelve months.

DASA competition for the Defence Medical Services (DMS) and UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) to address Non-Compressible Haemorrhage (NCH).

The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) uses the Open Call for Innovation to find ideas that address challenges across both Defence and Security landscapes.

The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) uses the Open Call for Innovation to find ideas that address challenges across both Defence and Security landscapes. The general requirements common to all Open Call competitions are contained within the ‘Overarching Competition Document’. The scope relating to specific competitions is contained with each respective competition document.

Loans of up to £1 million with a below market interest rate of 7.4% per annum to help convert your mature defence innovation into a strong business proposition for defence procurement.

This Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) competition seeks innovative, cost-competitive proposals designed for manufacture and scalable in twelve months.

This Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) competition seeks innovative, cost-competitive proposals designed for manufacture and scalable in twelve months.

Loans of up to £1 million with a below market interest rate of 7.4% per annum to help convert your mature defence innovation into a strong business proposition for defence procurement.

The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) uses the Open Call for Innovation to find ideas that address challenges across both Defence and Security landscapes.

On Friday 1 December 2023, Defence Ministers announced the launch of an innovation challenge series for AUKUS Pillar II. The second of these challenges will be focused on undersea Command, Control and Communications.

This DASA competition is seeking proposals that can make a real-world difference, fast and at scale.

This Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) competition is to develop technology providing dermal protection against liquid chemicals.

This report examines three innovative projects funded through the Veterans’ Health Innovation Fund competition

This Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) competition, being run on behalf of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), seeks proposals that address challenges within the field of Microbial Forensics.

This Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) competition is to accelerate the adoption of PYRAMID Reference Architecture (PRA) in avionics and mission systems.

DASA's revised strategy reinforces our position as an exemplar innovation organisation that promotes best practice in Defence and Security across Government

The Defence and Security Accelerator has published its Annual Review 2023-2024 demonstrating the progress made during the past year.

DASA, in conjunction with AWE, is seeking innovative ideas to further enhance UK-sovereign, resilient, demonstrable capabilities for the space and air domains.

DASA is seeking innovations that will enable deployed forces to move away from logistics resupply, towards self-sufficiency and enhanced operational energy.

A DASA competition looking at novel protective solutions to protect against Uncrewed Aerial Systems kinetic attack

Projects awarded funding to develop innovative models to understand the effect of disparate technologies to reduce the impact of offshore windfarms on UK Air Defence.

Up to £500,000 is available to develop innovative models to understand the effect of disparate technologies to reduce the impact of offshore windfarms on UK Air Defence

The DfT are seeking innovations to develop roadside evidential drug testing capability to enable effective enforcement of drug driving offending.

Seeking proposals that can address challenges associated with SPAA of hazardous chemical and biological (ChemBio) materials.

This DASA competition seeks novel, lightweight bioassay systems with novel transduction platforms for the detection of trace explosives.

We are seeking proposals that identify and develop new technologies that can be used to detect a range of toxic gases in public areas

We are seeking new proposals that solve a range of Defence and Security challenges and enhance capability by applying engineering biology approaches.

We are seeking proposals that identify and develop novel technologies that could be exploited in the development of cooperative missiles.

The Defence and Security Accelerator has published its Annual Review 2022-2023 demonstrating the progress made during the past year.

Read the Annual Report and Accounts of the Defence Electronics and Components Agency 2022/2023

This Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) competition seeks proposals for novel and innovative future space science and technologies.

Innovation to help optimise the role of humans in Human Machine Interfaces

This competition is looking for Human Augmentation technologies that mitigate human performance as the limiting factor in a UK Defence environment

DASA competition looking for innovation in Human Autonomy Teams

Innovations to help explore the role Artificial Intelligence (AI) can play to conduct Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) of the sub-threshold Information Environment.

Innovations in approaches to analysing and understanding audiences sought to aid an audience-centric approach to strategy development and decision making.

The British Army is transforming its training systems to deliver a credible representation of the real world that is representative of the human terrain.

Phase 3 of a DASA Competition to identify technologies that can mitigate against the effect of future Windfarm development.

Towards a step-change in our understanding of whole body vibration through research and innovation.

The Defence and Security Accelerator has published its Annual Review 2021-2022 demonstrating the progress made during the past year.

This competition aims to identify and develop novel, early stage research ideas that may have a significant and disruptive impact on the future of Defence.

This Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) competition seeks proposals for novel and innovative ‘Point of Care’ (PoC) diagnostic technologies.

DASA on behalf of Dstl, aims to identify and develop novel technologies that could be exploited in the development of a new category of missile – cooperative missiles.

Dstl is seeking highly innovative approaches to understand the contribution that engineering biology can make to Defence Capability.

This Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) competition is being run on behalf of the MOD Bright Corvus team.

DASA seeks innovations to develop a complete telexistence system, integrating telepresence, robotic and haptic technologies on to a single platform.

This Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) competition seeks proposals for novel technologies for screening, collecting and exploiting ChemBio materials.

This Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) campaign seeks proposals for novel and innovative future space technologies.

The Defence and Security Accelerator has published its Annual Review demonstrating the progress made during the past year.

This Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) campaign seeks proposals for novel and innovative future space technologies.

Up to £3.6 million is available to develop technologies to permit the coexistence of future offshore windfarms alongside UK air defence surveillance systems.

DASA has launched the Look Out! Maritime Early Warning Innovations competition which seeks to develop alternative future concepts of Early Warning for the Royal Navy.

DASA is seeking to identify innovations that can deliver a step change in military logistics capability across the Maritime, Land and Air domains.

DASA is seeking innovative technologies to deliver information exchange capabilities that are resilient in a highly dynamic operating environment.

Up to £2m is available to fund innovative future windfarm mitigations for UK Air Defence

DASA has launched phase 1 of Uncrewed Underwater Vehicle Testbed – Opportunity to Integrate;

DASA has launched phase 2 of Map the Gap; a competition to develop autonomous survey systems to help troops safely and stealthily advance over water.

The Defence and Security Accelerator seeks proposals for novel and innovative technologies for lightweight, rapidly deployable protection on the front-line.

DASA is looking to demonstrate the components of a telexistence solution to the defence and security community

This Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) competition seeks proposals for novel and innovative solutions for the detection of explosives and weapons.

This Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) competition is seeking proposals for innovative technologies that allow law enforcement officers to safely prevent the escalation of conflict in serious or violent circumstances from a distance.

DASA and DE&S are seeking innovative technologies to enable urban-optimised Unmanned Air Systems

Dstl and DASA are piloting a new approach to accelerate the development of commercial space technology, to rapidly provide solutions to defence problems

DASA is looking for novel approaches to revolutionise military decision-making with the aid of Artificial Intelligence

This Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) competition aims to develop and demonstrate a number of novel technologies and techniques in the area of Counter-IED electronic countermeasures

DASA is looking for solutions to detect and locate deposited hazardous biological agents rapidly in the field

DASA has launched a competition to develop a semi-autonomous reconnaissance and survey system to help troops safely and stealthily advance into enemy territory over water.

This DASA competition seeks proposals for innovative technologies in accessing, disabling and destroying chemical and biological munitions and improvised explosive devices in challenging environments.

This Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) competition seeks proposals for novel and innovative approaches to develop a Bioprocessing Prototype System to recycle military waste, oils, fuel and other liquid waste, into reusable products.

This Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) competition seeks proposals in the area of Electro-Optics and Infrared, with an expected £2.5m of funding available over 2 phases.

This Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) competition seeks proposals for innovative joining technologies that enable the use of advanced materials and/or designs on military platforms in land, sea and air environments.

The Defence and Security Accelerator seeks proposals for novel and innovative technologies for lightweight, rapidly deployable protection on the front-line.

The data provided relates to the 'Delivering an open data sharing solution' Innovation Focus Area delivered through the Open Call for Innovation