- DASA has launched a new Themed Competition: Populating the
World of Training
- The competition is funded by the British Army in support of
the Future Collective Training System (FCTS)
- Up to £2.8 million in funding available for innovations that
help transform the Army’s training systems to deliver a more
realistic and credible representation of the real world
The Defence and Security
Accelerator (DASA) is pleased to launch a new Themed
Competition, Populating the World of
Training: Phase 1. Run on behalf of the British Army in support of
the Future Collective Training System (FCTS), this competition
seeks to help the British Army transform its training systems to
deliver a more realistic representation of the real world.
Key dates and funding
£2.8 million (Exc. VAT) funding is available for this Themed
Competition.
The deadline to submit a proposal is midday 2 May 2023.
Do you have a disruptive idea or concept? Read the full competition
document and submit a proposal.The
importance of representing the human terrain
The British Army is transforming its training systems to deliver
a more realistic representation of the human terrain.
What is the human terrain?
British Army doctrine describes this human terrain as A3E:
Audiences, Actors, Adversaries and Enemies.
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Audiences are those groups and individuals whose perceptions
and interpretation of events and subsequent behaviour
contribute to the success or otherwise of military action.
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Actors are those individuals or groups who take action or
directly exert influence. They include British forces and
allies, as well as others who are friendly, neutral or
hostile.
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Adversaries are a hostile sub-set of actors; those groups and
individuals who seek to prevent friendly forces from
achieving their objectives.
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Enemies are those who seek to oppose friendly forces through
armed, lethal means.
This Themed Competition seeks innovations that deliver scalable,
configurable, consistent and seamless representation of A3E
behaviours across the Live, Virtual and Constructive (LVC)
environments.
This challenge does not anticipate proposals that only focus on
the provision of live “players”.
Populating the World of Training: Challenge
areas
This Themed Competition has five challenge areas.
Challenge 1: A flexible human terrain
This challenge area seeks innovations that represent the human
terrain, such as threat representations that are consistent, both
within and across the LVC environments.
Challenge 2: A credible suite of players
This challenge area seeks innovations that enable the capability
to test the training audience against a broad range of
differentiated threats, from hostile civilians to organised
insurgents and traditional state actors.
Challenge 3: Representative threat systems
This challenge area seeks innovations that help represent
different threats, from peer + threats, to threats below the
threshold of conflict across the physical, digital, political and
social environments.
Challenge 4: Remote and Autonomous Systems
This challenge area seeks innovations that help represent
increasing autonomy in the environment, such as Remote and
Autonomous Systems (RAS) and layered intelligence.
Challenge 5: A credible Information Environment
This challenge area seeks innovations to help represent a
realistic and contested cyber and electromagnetic environment.
Learn more about the five challenge areas in the full competition
document.
Supporting eventsWebinar
17 March 2023
This webinar will provide more information on the challenge areas
and how to submit a proposal. There will also be an opportunity
to ask questions in the Q&A.
Register
now
One-to-one sessions
21 March 2023 & 23 March 2023
A series of 15 minute one-to-one teleconference sessions, giving
you the opportunity to ask questions.
Industry Collaboration Survey
We encourage collaboration between organisations for this
competition. If you are interested in a collaboration, please
complete the survey and your details
will be circulated among other potential suppliers who have
completed the survey and are interested in collaborating.
Register now
Submit a proposal
Do you have a potentially disruptive idea or concept that will
help the British Army transform its training systems to deliver a
more realistic representation of the real world? Submit your idea
and help Defence deliver more realistic and credible training
representative of the human terrain.
Learn more and submit a
proposal.
