The Defence and Security
Accelerator (DASA) is pleased to launch a new IFA called
Unlocking the True
Potential of Test and Evaluation for Defence, run on behalf
of the Ministry of Defence
(MOD).
DASA is seeking innovations for priority T&E issues for which
no solution is currently known across the domain.
If you think you can provide a solution, read the full
competition document and submit a
proposal.What we would like to see
DASA is seeking novel proposals that:
- Accelerate the assurance of new systems and technologies
- Attune systems to the latest threats, emerging programme
requirements and likely operating environments, for example by
using digital tools and methods
- Enable capability to be more available to the war fighter,
more quickly, more often and for longer. For example, mobile
T&E infrastructure (taking the test to the capability rather
than the capability to the test) allowing for rapid
(re)assessment and assurance
- Enable agility by creating better understanding of the
capability through innovative T&E methods and delivery
- Enable accelerated acceptance of the capability at test, by
developing the novel T&E methods and processes with key
regulations/ regulators (for example the Defence Safety
Authority) in mind and enabling better understanding of
risks and mitigations
Key dates and funding
This Innovation Focus Area will run for at least two funding cycles of the
Open Call
DASA expects to fund several proposals between £50,000 and
£200,000 with a maximum of £500,000 available per financial year.
Proposals are expected to deliver at TRL 6 (prototype) at
the end of the contract and have a project duration of
approximately 6 months. Priority will be given to proposals that
can deliver within 6 months. This is likely to be reviewed after
Cycle 1 and 2 with the project length potentially being extended
to 9 months.
Background
T&E is the collection and analysis of evidence about the
behaviour and performance of a system, under relevant operational
conditions. This is used across the MOD and industry, and is
vital to the understanding, development, delivery and deployment
of all defence and security capabilities; assuring they are safe,
effective and offer value for money.
This competition is part of a wider MOD Test and Evaluation
Transformation Programme, which exists to ensure defence can
validate technologies at speed in an increasingly complex threat
environment. One key area, incites the T&E enterprise to
become, and remain, innovative by instinct.
Read the competition document
for full details of the competition scopeSubmit
a proposal
Do you have an innovation that will enable defence to modernise
testing and evaluation? Submit your idea.
