- DASA has launched a new Themed Competition called, ‘Humans in
Systems: Accelerating Interaction Innovation’
- Funded by the Defence Science Technology Laboratory (Dstl)
- Up to £1 million in funding available for innovative
technologies that have the potential to enhance innovations in
Human Machine Interaction (HMI); and interface technologies and
approaches to support teamwork and collaboration
The Defence and Security
Accelerator (DASA), in partnership with the Defence Science
Technology Laboratory (Dstl), is delighted to launch a new Themed
Competition called, ‘Humans in Systems:
Accelerating Interaction Innovation’. This competition seeks
innovations in Human Machine Interaction (HMI) and interface
technologies and approaches to support improvements in human
machine interaction and to support computer mediated teamwork and
collaboration (across both human to human, and human to machine
teams).
Key dates and funding
- Up to £1 million funding is available for this Themed
Competition. This call is looking to fund several individual
proposals across all three Challenge Areas.
- The deadline to submit a proposal is midday (BST) on 19 July
2023.
- A Q&A webinar to discuss the competition requirements
will take place on 24 May 2023.
Influencing the future of the Operating
Environment
The Future Operating Environment is likely to be highly complex
and challenging. Rapid technological change, especially in AI, is
reshaping societies, enhancing capability and transforming the
character of warfare, for the UK and our allies, as well as our
adversaries. The roles, tasks and activities undertaken by
defence personnel are also likely to evolve and adapt. UK Defence
is committed to adopt Generation After Next technologies in a way
that is ambitious, safe and responsible.
To maintain operational capability and task effectiveness, it is
essential the interface between humans and machines is optimised
for future capabilities, platforms, and systems. Interfaces must
be efficient to interact with, providing assistance and
facilitation wherever possible, to ensure humans’ maintain
meaningful system relationships, that humans maintain the
necessary situation awareness, with speed and agility to deliver
task performance at optimal levels.
Do you have the solution? Submit a proposal
nowWhat innovations are DASA looking
for?
This competition seeks proposals that enhance innovations in
Human Machine Interaction (HMI); and interface technologies and
approaches to support teamwork and collaboration. DASA is looking
for novel and innovative ideas to benefit end-users working
across some or all of the Defence domains (Maritime, Land, Cyber,
Space or Air). Defence wants to accelerate and de-risk the
requirement specification and development of HMI technologies for
future defence capabilities.
This competition seeks proposals under three challenge areas, all
are of equal importance.
Challenge 1: HMI innovations within the constrained space
environment
This challenge seeks to enhance the interaction between people
and systems within physically constrained and environmentally
challenging environments. This might include: the provision of
and interaction with large quantities of information and the
control or interaction with un-crewed semi-autonomous or remotely
controlled platforms and sensor systems from within another
vehicle.
Challenge 2: AI assistive task support, AI enabled
decision support tools, and novel interface modalities
This challenge seeks to unlock task performance improvements
through the provision of novel interface technologies and
interaction approaches and tools to support users in areas such
as: control inputs, improving situational awareness, interacting
with information, making decisions.
Challenge 3: Enhancing Teamwork and
Collaboration
This areas is focused on tools which may benefit both co-located
and distributed teams engaged in collaborative and co-operative
working. Often teams operate within constrained systems,
architectures, and workstations; where the introduction and
implementation of new team aids is prohibitive.
Do you have a disruptive idea or concept? Read the full
competition document
and submit a proposal.
