Innovation research announced for DASA Intelligent Ship
Phase 2 competition.
The second phase of funded proposals has been announced for the
Defence and Security
Accelerator (DASA) Intelligent Ship competition to
revolutionise military decision-making, mission planning and
automation.
Phase 2 of Intelligent Ship, run
by DASA on behalf of the Defence Science and Technology
Laboratory (Dstl), sought novel technologies for use by the
military in 2030 and beyond.
Nine innovative projects have been funded, sharing £3m.
With a focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI), the projects will
support the evaluation and demonstration of a range of
human-machine teams and their integration with an evaluation
environment. Phase 2 will develop AI for wider application across
defence platforms.
Julia Tagg, Dstl Project Technical Authority said:
The Intelligent Ship project aims to demonstrate ways of
bringing together multiple AI applications to make collective
decisions, with and without human operator judgement.
We hope that the use of AI in the future will lead to timely,
more informed and trusted decision-making and planning, within
complex operating and data environments. With applications for
the Royal Navy and more broadly across defence, we are very
excited to see what these Phase 2 projects might bring.
Rachel Solomons, DASA Delivery Manager said:
DASA is focussed on finding innovation to benefit the defence
and security of the UK.
Artificial Intelligence and human-machine teaming are such
innovations, and by taking this competition to Phase 2 we hope
to help find solutions that could make a real difference to
future decision making in defence.
The companies awarded funding for Phase 2 are:
- CGI IT UK Ltd
- Decision Lab
- DIEM Analytics
- Frazer Nash Consultancy
- Montvieux Ltd
- Nottingham Trent University
- Rolls Royce
- SeeByte Ltd
Examples of proposals funded include an intelligent system for
vessel power and propulsion machinery control to support the
decision-making of the engineering crew, and an innovative
mission AI prototype Agent for Decision-Making to support
decision making during pre-mission preparation, mission execution
and post mission analysis.
Phase one contracts
were announced last year.
