Transparency data
CDE funded contracts: 1 April 2015 to 31 March 2016
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
| Competition cycle (month) | Organisation and type | CDE reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|---|
| February 2015 | Thales UK (large) | CDE38701: Coherent change detection for Polarimetric SAR | £45,473.04 |
| March 2015 | Folium Optics Ltd (SME) | CDE38797: Self-powered adaptive camouflage with infra-red capability | £79,964.06 |
| University of Exeter (academia) | CDE38859: Manufacturable chiral structure | £93,857.00 | |
| April/May 2015 | University of Glasgow (academia) | CDE39105: Preliminary evaluation of diamond transistors using an advanced doping process | £97,827.62 |
| University of Southampton (academia) | CDE39144: Creating a UK supply of optically engineered tunable laser crystals for improved directional infrared countermeasures and remote stand-off chemical detection | £114,877.00 | |
| June 2015 | Nottingham Trent University (academia) | CDE39296: Dielectrophoresis driven air quality and bio-aerosol monitoring | £90,531.09 |
| PacTec (SME) | CDE37688: LocAlert Squad Positioning Intelligence Network (SPIN). Precise locational and navigational positioning for ‘dismounted personnel’ applications via wireless devices for use in GPS denied environments and cluttered environments / inside buildings | £95,150.00 | |
| July 2015 | BioMatSurf Technology (SME) | CDE39340: Intrinsic signalling of graphene layers + graphene based carbons for advanced threat detection, signaling and in-service monitoring | £89,689.36 |
| September 2015 | Aston University (academia) | CDE39684: A low-cost method for detecting lasers | £66,178.25 |
| October 2015 | Newcastle University (academia) | CDE41041: Modular tissue engineering: one size fis all | £99,781.93 |
| November 2015 | Fluid Mechanics Ltd (SME) | CDE41037: Reducing the power requirements and improving the safety of cooling systems on ships, submarines & for other applications | £96,200.00 |
| Hieta Technologies Ltd (SME) | CDE42249: Joining advanced metal interfaced composites (JAMICOMPS) | £109,272.00 | |
| University of Kent (academia) | CDE41120: Biometric counter-spoofing by liveness detection for mobile devices | £25,250.50 | |
| January 2016 | Imperial College London (academia) | CDE100100: A novel technique for sensing underwater objects using coherence modulation acoustic speckle interferometry (CMASI) | £91,417.00 |
| Gyana (SME) | CDE100102: Data science interpretation of the human world focussed on geo-spatial data | £54,504.00 |
Highly robust ground platforms
| Organisation and type | CDE reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| Sole Proprietor (David Barrett) (SME) | CDE38840: Hedgehog | £85,878.14 |
| Autonomous Devices Ltd (SME) | CDE38862: Collective actuation for explosion resistance (CAER) | £78,064.00 |
| Sheffield University (AMRC) (academia) | CDE38870: MERV (Modular Explosive Resistant Vehicle) | £93,289.00 |
| J C Engineering Solutions Ltd (SME) | CDE38877: 360 degrees of motion and fully integrated suspension system | £65,001.60 |
| BAE systems (large) | CDE38900: Biologically inspired UGV design | £75,844.28 |
| Plextek Ltd (SME) | CDE38951: Highly redundant modular architecture (HRMA) | £75,200.00 |
Persistent surveillance from the air (phase 1)
| Organisation and type | CDE reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| University of Birmingham (academia) | CDE40164: Persistant surveillance from air with a low frequency MIMO towed array radar SIMITAR | £51,214.00 |
| QinetiQ (large) | CDE40193: Low swap combined multi-spectral and full motion video electro-optical sensor with automated surfaces | £101,104.36 |
| QinetiQ (large) | CDE40120: Multi-function LIDAR and optical communications | £99,033.81 |
| Glyndwr Innovations Ltd (academia) | CDE40267: Ultra-light optical system incorporating a corrected Richey Chretien | £69,250.00 |
| Amethyst Research Ltd (SME) | CDE40265: High operating temperature dual band (SWIR/MWIR) focal plane arrays for thermoelectrically cooled infrared camera systems with power capability | £99,938.68 |
| Selex ES (large) | CDE40237: Lightweight wide area IR surveillance | £99,655.70 |
| University of Strathclyde (academia) | CDE40065: Proof of communicating radar-operational mode with co-existent fractional fourier transform based waveforms and communication | £76,794.86 |
| Plextek Ltd (SME) | CDE40308: RF emitter location in frequency and bearing via signal processing operating directly upon samples from a compressed sensing receiver | £64,600.00 |
| Roke Manor Research Limited (large) | CDE39908: Communications to HAPS using extant or dedicated LTE infrastructure | £95,292.63 |
| Helia Photonics Ltd (SME) | CDE39881: High resolution structured filtering for real-time hyperspectral and computational imaging | £87,666.36 |
| University of Sheffield (academia) | CDE40074: Compact LIDAR augmented thermal mapping | £99,617.46 |
Agile, immersive mission training (phase 1)
| Organisation and type | CDE reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| Newman and Spurr Consultancy Ltd (SME) | CDE40040: Demonstrate the utility of wearable systems to enhance the effectiveness of training instructors | £77,965.74 |
| Close Air Solutions Ltd (SME) | CDE39907: Sensory immersion (cognitive fidelity and training effectiveness) | £99,582.83 |
| Plextek Ltd (SME) | CDE39958: Virtual reality training evaluation system | £87,500.00 |
| Plextek Ltd (SME) | CDE40085: Augmented reality counter-IED search training | £88,200.00 |
| Transmedia Storyteller Ltd (SME) | CDE39600: Connected universal assessment and real-time analysis training tool | £74,514.38 |
| Muretex Ltd (SME) | CDE39767: In action review of trainee performance | £105,215.23 |
| BMT Defence Services (SME) | CDE40116: Beyond SCORM: closing the training loop with state of the art learning technology | £97,905.82 |
| CAE UK PLC (large) | CDE40108: Performance analytics training improvement (PATI) System | £99,994.73 |
| Minerva Simulation Ltd (SME) | CDE40130: The Minerva Thunderbird low cost tracked vehicle trainer | £72,000.00 |
| QinetiQ (large) | CDE40054: ISS enhancing in-action review through JarViST | £106,127.00 |
| QinetiQ (large) | CDE40055: Augmented synthetic environment for training info activities delivered through social media | £84,981.53 |
| Inzpire Ltd (SME) | CDE39538: GHOST - A graphically hosted objective solution for training | £99,459.58 |
Open-source big data insight
| Organisation and type | CDE reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| Mass Consultants Ltd (SME) | CDE39785: Open source big data insight | £54,915.84 |
| Analytics Engines Ltd (SME) | CDE39964: Fast response big data analytics | £46,827.00 |
| SVGC Ltd (SME) | CDE39863: Open source big data insight | £49,850.00 |
| Strategic KM Ltd T/A Spotlight Data (SME) | CDE40321: Harnessing Cloud computing | £48,537.50 |
| Durham University (academia) | CDE40385: Automated discovery and classification from semi-structured data sources | £36,173.08 |
Understand and interact with cyberspace
| Organisation and type | CDE reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| J2S Consulting Ltd (SME) | CDE40290: Augmented team cognition platform | £73,500.00 |
| Trimetis (SME) | CDE40542: Supporting commander understanding of cyber activities through Ecological Interface Design (EID) | £89,572.64 |
| BMT Defence Services (SME) | CDE40705: Revolutionising the command and control of cyber warfare by moving the military planning process into an immersive environment | £62,992.98 |
| Warwick University (academia) | CDE40728: Spatial-auditory visualisation environment (SAVEN) | £69,200.00 |
| RiskAware (SME) | CDE40734: Cyber operational mission visualisation and analysis tool (COMMVAT) | £69,909.15 |
| Cyberlytic Ltd (SME) | CDE40763: Cyber risk trends and prediction visualisation project (CRTPV) | £67,400.00 |
| Insighlytics Ltd (SME) | CDE40777: A predictive intelligence tool for understanding events in cyberspace | £76,170.00 |
What’s inside that building?
| Organisation and type | CDE reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| TNO (large) | CDE39937: Radar forward scattering localisation and tracking technology | £99,981.00 |
| Thales UK (large) | CDE40549: Detection and identification using electromagnetic induction with atomic magnetometers | £68,082.49 |
| Heriot-Watt University (academia) | CDE40573: Laser-based tracking and locating multiple targets | £57,092.64 |
| Queen’s University Belfast (academia) | CDE40578: Passive sensing using massive MIMO techniques | £109,575.50 |
| Cranfield University (academia) | CDE40683: Applying digital forensic techniques for IT infrastructure inference | £49,955.00 |
| QinetiQ (large) | CDE40674: Single emitter identification of electrical equipment | £49,788.83 |
| The Technology Partnership plc (SME) | CDE40824: Detecting movement within a building using return loss measurements through mains electricity wiring | £70,974.00 |
| The Technology Partnership plc (SME) | CDE40909: Determining the internal structure and contents of a building using remote temperature measurements and grey box thermal modelling | £80,670.00 |
| Sussex University (academia) | CDE40832: Through-wall electric field sensing of movement and presence | £79,603.80 |
Security for the internet of things
11 proposals were funded.
The total amount awarded for this competition was £728,392.71.
Autonomy and big data for defence (phase 1)
| Organisation and type | CDE reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| Polaris Consulting Ltd (SME) | CDE41787: Maritime autonomous navigation & mission effectiveness in GPS | £88,611.64 |
| Polaris Consulting Ltd(SME) | CDE41799: A risk based meta heuristic model for real-time route optimisation in autonomous surface vehicles | £80,750.00 |
| Polaris Consulting Ltd (SME) | CDE42166: Applying a dominant rough set approach to improve intelligence data processing & enhance situational awareness | £83,900.00 |
| Vectis Environmental Consulting Team LLP (SME) | CDE41744: Position acquisition through statistical environmental recognition (PASER) | £80,802.68 |
| CountingLab Ltd (SME) | CDE42008: Trustworthiness of information from big data sets: An autonomous approach based on the analysis of the messages metadata linguistic content & spread through social networks | £95,500.00 |
| Cubica Technology Ltd (SME) | CDE42231: Automatic verification & fusion of open source intelligence for regional situational awareness | £69,950.00 |
| Selex ES Ltd (large) | CDE42173: Linguistic summaristion of sensor data to reduce data deluge | £89,255.77 |
| TRW Ltd (large) | CDE41720: Timeline visualisation for provenance-based big data sense making | £99,280.00 |
| Exa Informatics (SME) | CDE41863: Knowledge based autonomous big data validation | £54,780.00 |
| Oxbotica Ltd (SME) | CDE42014: Experience based localisation-feasibility study | £80,783.00 |
| Swarm Systems Ltd (SME) | CDE41937: Fusion & synthetic environment for autonomous systems (FUSE) | £96,642.50 |
| Sim Centric Ltd (SME) | CDE42192: VSALT: Visual search & autonomous linkage tool | £79,962.00 |
| Massive Analytic Ltd (SME) | CDE41901: Artificial precognition & decision-making support for persistent surveillance-based tactical support | £99,935.72 |
| Stormcharge Ltd (SME) | CDE41445: Command & control of land & airborne autonomous vehicle groups in changing environment | £84,000.00 |
| Atlas Elektronik Ltd (large) | CDE42191: Topological data analysis for robust autonomous situational awareness | £79,782.31 |
| Roke Manor Research Ltd (large) | CDE41886: Reducing the workload of an intelligence analyst by automatically determining confidence in intelligence from the provenance of the underlying data | £90,180.04 |
| Horiba Mira (large) | CDE42057: Real-time UGV localisation using geo-referencing derived from deep learning applied to disparate data sets | £112,282.16 |
| BMT Defence Services (SME) | CDE42106: Validating sources of big data learning to trust the crowd | £99,804.54 |
| QinetiQ (large) | CDE42120: Extracting visual navigation data from open source imagery | £61,916.37 |
| Mass Consultants Ltd (SME) | CDE41672: Autonomy & big data for defence | £92,918.56 |
| Createc (SME) | CDE42083: Live Maps-Air | £93,295.79 |
| Autonomous Devices Ltd (SME) | CDE42112: A real-time interactive query language for extracting intelligence from big data | £68,917.00 |