Transparency data
CDE funded contracts: 1 April 2014 to 31 March 2015
Updated 2 November 2016
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CDE funded contracts are listed below under each competition title. Successful organisations are listed, alongside the organisation type and CDE reference number. Beneath this you can see the project titles and contract funding amount.
Enduring competition
| Month | Organisation and type | CDE reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 2015 | QinetiQ (large) | CDE37005: Novel printable battery architecture | £72,699.53 |
| Xenint Ltd (SME) | CDE37512: Provide an effective low cost stand-off IED detective system using multi-static radar & a micro UAV platform | £81,343.09 | |
| University of Bristol (academia) | CDE38104: Nano-electro mechanical relays for radiation resistant & high-temperature electronics | £107,167.00 | |
| Strathclyde University (academia) | CDE38281: Development of a portable blood salvage and auto-transfusion technology to enhance survivability of personnel requiring major medical intervention | £42,069.60 | |
| October 2014 | National Physical Laboratory (SME) | CDE37519: environentally robust quantum sensors | £122,616.00 |
| Chemring (large) | CDE36540: A technology to survey sub-surface anomalies in all weather conditions (“A Ground Penetrating Radar [GPR] that works in the wet”) | £69,682.12 | |
| September 2014 | University of Bath (academia) | CDE36712: Novel biosensors based on Synthetic Recognition elements embedded in dedox active self-assembled monolayers | £97,105.00 |
| August 2014 | Folium Optics Ltd (SME) | CDE35713: Folium adaptive camouflage technology | £78,295.80 |
| MAST Carbon (SME) | CDE36693: Lightweight high power energy storage devices | £70,711.00 | |
| July 2014 | Advanced Defence Materials Ltd (SME) | CDE35909: study into the use of advantageous fibre directionality | £29,750.00 |
| June 2014 | Plextek Ltd (SME) | CDE36134: Active Chaff | £67,308.00 |
| The Technology Partnership plc (large) | CDE36169: Cost effective portable technology for non-intrusive front line rapid assessment/triage of potential Chemical Warfare Agent (CWA) | £86,150.00 | |
| April/May 2014 | Imperial college London (academia) | CDE35566: Phase Correlation Digital Optical Rangefinder/moving target detector (PCDOR) | £98,966.00 |
| Integrated Surveillance Systems Ltd (SME) | CDE35636: Digital techniques | £66,000.00 | |
| Integrated Surveillance Systems Ltd (SME) | CDE35655: ISSL will develop and demonstrate hardware for a dynamic, adaptive and resilient receiver design which has a high immunity to channel interference and different types of directed jamming | £63,250.00 |
Affordable space-based capability
| Organisation and type | CDE reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| Chemring Technology Solutions (large) | CDE38372: Anti-jam applique for Satcom modems | £61,914.13 |
| Imperial College London (academia) | CDE38292: High precision small satellite deployables for synthetic aperture ISR | £93,425.81 |
| QinetiQ (large) | CDE38332: Communicating with submerged submarines from GEO satellites | £55,848.31 |
| University of Birmingham (academia) | CDE38449: Passive misile borne radar (PAMIR) | £76,628.86 |
| CDE38496: Passive microsatellite based SAR for persistant large area modelling | £86,828.86 | |
| Magna Parva Ltd (SME) | CDE38457: Affordable space-based capabilities - COPMA | £79,000.00 |
| Spectra Medical Ltd (SME) | CDE38461: Partial coherence synthetic aperture imaging for low Earth orbit | £43,000.00 |
| EADS Astrium (large) | CDE38467: Surveillance of wide areas | £85,451.40 |
| VERT Rotors UK Ltd (SME) | CDE38526: Low vibration rotary cooling system for small satellites | £86,814.00 |
| Plextek Ltd (SME) | CDE38570: Robust secure communications using ultra narrowband | £70,000.00 |
| CDE38577: maximising telecommunications satellites data bandwidth with minature atom clocks | £85,000.00 |
Defence medical sciences
| Organisation and type | CDE reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| University of Leeds (academia) | CDE37550: development of a continuous measurement system for detection of kidney failure | £66,802.21 |
| Inova Design Ltd (SME) | CDE37827: advanced medical sysytems for field care non-invasive continuous physionlogy monitor | £89,809.80 |
| Nottingham Trent University (academia) | CDE37926: temperature sensing sock for monitoring conditions that cause non-freezing cold injury | £64,735.02 |
| ThinkingSafe Ltd (SME) | CDE37955: medical big data in real-time | £59,800.00 |
| University of Birmingham (academia) | CDE37974: Novel theraputic technology for reducing the risk of infection & increasing the rates of tissue repair following battlefield injuries | £63,746.10 |
| University of Aberdeen (academia) | CDE38021: transcrannial ultrasound for traumatic brain injury creating a support structure for non-expert users | £70,912.00 |
| Newcastle University (academia) | CDE38047: battlefield cell-based therapy: can theraputic stem cells be used on the frontline | £99,455.76 |
Synthetic biology applications in defence
| Organisation and type | CDE reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| University of Birmingham (academia) | CDE37699: exploiting synthetic biology for protection integrating blast & ballistic protection into a single lightweight armour | £105,346.45 |
| CDE37988: DNA origami catalyst | £127,104.24 | |
| CDE38008: microbial assisted synthesis of muti-scaled hierarchial boron carbide composite armour | £79,979.00 | |
| University of Exeter (academia) | CDE38033: Novel sensor technologies “detection of TNT using cell-free synthetic gene networks” | £99,114.00 |
Automating cyber defence responses
| Organisation and type | CDE reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| RJD Technology Ltd (SME) | CDE37537: APPLE- autonomous platform protection with learning environment | £61,236.00 |
| DeepSkyBlue Ltd (SME) | CDE37570: automating cyber defence responses | £92,400.00 |
| Noumena research Ventures (SME) | CDE37585: games on attack-defence trees | £72,325.00 |
| ThinkingSafe Ltd (SME) | CDE37609: automated defence analysis | £98,600.00 |
| University of South Wales (academia) | CDE37709: acase-based reasoning approach to automating cyber defence responses | £82,350.00 |
| CDE37740: an artificial life & swarm intelligence approach to automating cyber defence responses | £82,800.00 | |
| University of Oxford (academia) | CDE37775: automated network defence through business & threat led machine learning | £108,175.40 |
| Cyberlytic Ltd (SME) | CDE37795: automating cyber defence responses | £54,800.00 |
| Insighlytics Ltd (SME) | CCDE37847: a game theory model based system to identify the best response | £55,590.80 |
Detection of airborne chemical hazards
| Organisation and type | CDE reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| Ancon Technologies Ltd (SME) | CDE36705: Detection of airborne chemical hazards using ultra-sensitive nanotechnology molecular tagging (NMT) to enhance capability of highly selective Ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) | £88,114.25 |
| University of York (academia) | CDE36976: Airborne chemical hazards | £74,178.40 |
| Platform kinetics Ltd (SME) | CDE37007: Ubi Threat sensor - Ubiquituous threat | £63,700.00 |
| Heriot-Watt University (academia) | CDE37047: Detection of airborne chemical hazards challenge 3 | £80,599.00 |
| University of Southampton (academia) | CDE37148: AirCombined raman & IR surface enhanced spectrosopies for detection & classification of airborne chemicals using a flow-through plamonic nanopore array | £45,263.20 |
Additive manufacturing
| Organisation and type | CDE reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| University of Exeter (academia) | CDE36453: High temperature additive manufacturing for rapid manufacture & adaption of bespoke Military equipment | £76,435.42 |
| National Physical Laboratory (large) | CDE36898: Advancing the additive manufacture of tailored electromagnetic materials AM-TEM | £79,966.00 |
| QinetiQ (large) | CDE36965: Secondary explosive components | £68,667.74 |
| Imperial College London (academia) | CDE36972: Structural manufacture of bone & soft tissue frangible simulants | £78,200.00 |
| University of Manchester (academia) | CDE36973: 3D inkjet printed micro Li Ion batteries | £76,614.00 |
| University of Sheffield (academia) | CDE37017: Additive manufacturing of bulk radar absorbers - AMBRA | £79,561.76 |
| Autonomous devices Ltd (SME) | CDE37066: Improvised robotic devices | £81,078.00 |
| BAE Systems (large) | CDE37089: Four dimensional additive manufacture | £63,681.75 |
| University of Warwick (academia) | CDE37102: 3D hydro graphics a new technology to integrate electronics & smart stealth technologies onto Military Equipment | £66,669.84 |
| University of Southampton (academia) | CDE37161: Rapid manufacture of integrated self-powered sensing systems using additive manufacturing for critical structure health monitoring | £79,832.03 |
Defence against airborne threats
| Organisation and type | CDE reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| The Technology Partnership plc (large) | CDE36685: Controllable ballistic trajectory degradation by manipulation of complex plasma effects in the ionosphere | £70,380.00 |
| University of Strathclyde (academia) | CDE36521:Micro-doppler signature based recognition of ballistic missiles & associated functional assessment | £65,788.95 |
| ProBayes (SME) | CDE36697: BAKA; a bayesian approach to kill assessment | £48,972.00 |
Information processing and sensemaking
| Organisation and type | CDE reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| C3 Systems Consulting Ltd (SME) | CDE36529: Qualitative domain model based sense-making | £46,059.41 |
| CountingLab Ltd (SME) | CDE36620: Understanding the relationship between dynamic social network structure & moods/sentiment | £59,280.00 |
| University of Liverpool (academia) | CDE36610: Particle flow for scalable migration of uncertainty in future problem-based information processing | £69,116.30 |
| Ripjar (SME) | CDE36599: Evolution & verification of open source stories | £92,500.00 |
| RiskAware Ltd (SME) | CDE36489: Processing & visual analytics for real-time inference + sense-making | £68,133.62 |
| University of Sheffield (academia) | CDE36231: An exploratory search system for document collection | £77,840.00 |
| Durham University (academia) | CDE36457: Auto-identification of emerging behaviour stereotypes from semi-structured data sources | £109,866.10 |
| Plextek Ltd (SME) | CDE36545: Use of deep learning to automate the understanding of complex relationships | £71,000.00 |
| Chemring Technology Solutions (large) | CDE36591: Wide area motion imagery exploitation (WAMI) | £56,078.90 |
| Insighlytics Ltd (SME) | CDE36644: A predictive intelligence tool for anticipatory sense-making | £85,250.00 |
Innate response targets for therapy
| Organisation and type | CDE reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| University of Strathclyde (academia) | CDE35656: Identification of common innate response genes for therapy by large scale screen of gene trap libraries using diverse intracellular pathogens | £83,463.00 |
| University of Liverpool (academia) | CDE36278: Identification of new cellular host pathway targets in Ebola infection & comparison to other viruses | £77,991.05 |
| Northumbria University (academia) | CDE36120: Establishing an in-vitro model of innate immune responses against intracellular bacterial infection & testing therapeutic killing enhancement by infections | £67,544.06 |
| Moleculomics Ltd (SME) | CDE36387: An in silico platform for the structural characterisation of host-pathogen intractomes | £65,999.30 |
| Queen Mary University of London (academia) | CDE36407: Using innate signals to manipulate the generation of tissue targeted effector T cells as a generalised strategy to improve immune protection in the airway | £73,964.50 |
Future sonar
| Organisation and type | CDE reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| The Technology Partnership plc (large) | CDE36097: Acousto-electric sensing technique for volumetric acoustic field sensing | £83,950.00 |
| University of Leeds (academia) | CDE36263: Lead-free Piezoelectric single crystals | £84,951.83 |
| Atlas ElektroniK UK Ltd (large) | CDE36283: Combined acoustic technique for delamination detection and localisation | £79,762.55 |
| Thales UK (large) | CDE36219: Novel high sensitivity hydrophones and compact acoustic sound sources exploring the functionality of graphene for active and passive sonar systems | £70,672.51 |
| Thales UK (large) | CDE36221: Miniature high strength carbon nano tube strain members & interconnecting cables | £71,251.83 |
| University of Leeds (academia) | CDE36129: Evaluation of novel textured piezoelectric ceramics for sonar applications | £78,914.30 |
| Atlas ElektroniK UK Ltd (large) | CDE36256: Graphene Sensory skin sonar | £87,877.55 |
| RED Scientific Ltd (SME) | CDE35823: Future Sonar Challenge 1 | £74,025.00 |
Novel electro-optic infrared technology
| Organisation and type | CDE reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| QinetiQ (large) | CDE35829: Software Defined Multifunction LIDAR | £60,133.16 |
| Selex Galileo Ltd (large) | CDE35854: A Dual-mode Designator/ Optical Communications Transceiver Concept | £69,783.07 |
| University of York (academia) | CDE35910: Light-field Cameras for Imaging through Distortion and Turbulence | £46,609.00 |
| BAE Systems (large) | CDE35784: Active Aspheric Reflective Systems | £69,871.58 |
| Lancaster University (academia) | CDE35947:The Infrared Detector Reconsidered - A New Plasmonic Antenna Enhanced Nano-pillar Infrared Photodector Concept | £68,867.05 |
| Amethyst Research Ltd (SME) | CDE35846: Dual Band Infrared Detector Technology based on Barrier Diode Architecture | £69,826.00 |
| DZP Technologies Ltd (SME) | CDE35836: Graphene Infrared Detector | £65,616.00 |
| University of Strathclyde (academia) | CDE35994: Development of a Novel Multi-functional Device based on a Ultra-flexible, Multi-beam Laser System | £63,598.00 |
| Kaon Ltd (SME) | CDE35797: Novel Aberration Free Ultra-Thin Optics using Plasmonic Meta-materials | £66,042.00 |
| Selex Galileo Ltd (large) | CDE36016: Multi-Function Pixel Design Study | £29,786.96 |
| University of Bristol (academia) | CDE36050: Image Stablisation in a Reduced SWAP Architecture | £56,569.00 |
| University of Birmingham (academia) | CDE36038: Feasibility Study of All-Optical Modulator for Infrared Technology: Modulated Infrared Resonance - MIRes | £67,108.90 |