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Competition Document: Populating the World of Training

Updated 27 April 2023

1. Introduction

This competition seeks novel and innovative proposals that will help deliver a credible, complex and representative human terrain to effectively train British Army personnel and other Land Forces operating in the land environment.

2. What is the human terrain?

British Army doctrine describes this human terrain as A3E: Audiences, Actors, Adversaries and Enemies.

• Audiences:

  groups and individuals whose perceptions and interpretation of events and subsequent behaviour contribute to the success or otherwise of military action.

• Actors:

  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.

• Adversaries:

  hostile sub-set of actors; those groups and individuals who seek to prevent friendly forces from achieving their objectives.

• Enemies:

  those who seek to oppose friendly forces through armed, lethal means.

People are at the heart of conflict; it is their decisions, actions and behaviours that determine how conflict is shaped. People are the context in which decision makers must set and adjust objectives, and in which Land forces must conduct operations. It is through people that the consequences of military action are judged. The British Army and its allies must operate in an increasingly complex world, in which the attitudes of the people they encounter may be friendly or hostile as a result of their interactions with these forces. These attitudes will result in actions that may have military consequences.

The complexity of this environment is articulated in the Integrated Operating Concept, which describes those actions designed to Protect, Engage and Constrain as being “operations below the threshold of war”. Warfighting is an escalation from operating below the threshold of war, and not considered the first choice tool.

To prevail in this environment the British Army needs to train against a credible human terrain: a free-thinking A3E capability that delivers cues, stressors and frictions across the human, physical, environmental and information domains. This training must be seamlessly blended across Live, Virtual and Constructive (LVC) options, and be realistic, dynamic and adaptable to the developing exercise.

2.1 Definitions of training domains

• Live training:

  uses actual resources (personnel and equipment) operating in a real environment. This is done during a field training exercise.

• Virtual training:

  uses live personnel operating simulated equipment, in a simulated environment, with simulated effects (e.g. the Combined Arms Tactical Trainer and the Interim Combined Arms Virtual Simulation (Deployable).

• Constructive training:

  uses live personnel directing simulated personnel and formations, using simulated equipment, in a simulated environment with simulated effects (e.g. the Command and Staff Trainer).

2.2 This competition is funded by the British Army in support of the Future Collective Training System (FCTS).

The FCTS aims to develop a genuinely transformative A3E capability that will represent the full human terrain in which Land Forces will have to operate, from local nationals and key leaders to non-state actors as well as allied, friendly and opposing forces. The capability also needs to represent the breadth of effects likely to be used by these actors, including weapons, vehicles and electronic/information systems. The representation of these effects needs to be delivered in the context of multidomain (Land, Maritime, Air, Space, Cyber & Electromagnetic) operations and in the Live, Virtual, Constructive (LVC) and a blend of these environments, to provide complex, challenging training for units ranging from 100 to many thousands of personnel. Multidomain Operations are a combination of all domains that create and exploit relative advantages during competition, crisis, and armed conflict. They require land forces to integrate land and joint capabilities effectively to synchronise their application in combined arms manoeuvre.

2.3 The Army is seeking proposals ranging from Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 3 to 6 that address any element of the A3E challenge. This challenge includes, but is not limited to:

• A representation of threats, from a peer+ multifaceted threat (i.e. that is closely matched or superior to British forces in respects to size, capability and lethality) to actions below the threshold of conflict, across the physical, digital, political and social environments.

• Systems that deliver a seamless A3E blend across and within the LVC environments.

• Highly manoeuvrable mechanised forces, supported by wheeled/tracked vehicles and massed fires.

• Massed indirect fires capability including the use of deep fires, counter-battery, scatterable mines and thermobaric weapons.

• Ground and air remote and autonomous systems that represent a full spectrum of capabilities, including the delivery of kinetic effects, and layered intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance directly linked to Command & Control and fires.

• An electro-magnetic spectrum including representative background clutter and hostile capabilities such as signal detection, recognition, identification, location and exploitation (e.g. through listening, jamming, deception or targeting).

• Hostile Information Manoeuvre activities, including social media.

• Capabilities that can be integrated with future tactical engagement systems.

• The replication of different styles of doctrine, tactics, techniques and procedures from a wide variety of potential adversaries, including state actors and improvised insurgency tactics.

• Live and synthetic representation of “pattern of life” entities, such as tribal leaders/elders, local military/security forces, other government agencies, non-governmental organisations, media, industry, infrastructure and services.

• Scalable, configurable and consistent representation of A3E behaviours.

• Systems that simulate acoustic, visual, thermal and radio frequency signatures.

• Systems that augment physical and virtual A3E capabilities.

3. Example: Stabilisation exercise in a tense foreign town

3.1 Example: Stabilisation exercise in a tense foreign town (text)

Scene 1:

The live unit encounters hostility from the local population, with protesters throwing petrol bombs and rocks; small arms are fired.

Scene 2:

The virtual unit is patrolling a peaceful protest in a nearby suburb, but the protest turns violent when footage from a media drone is manipulated to report that the live unit fired indiscriminately at unarmed civilians.

Scene 3:

The virtual forces move to calm the panic, with elements of the virtual headquarters working to reverse the flow of misinformation.

Scene 4:

The situation in the live environment worsens as hostile actors create further discontent, leading to a local militia attacking British and host nation security forces.

Scene 5:

A hostile foreign neighbour enters the fray, deploying replicated artillery, tanks, and ground forces under offensive electromagnetic activities to degrade British capabilities.

Scene 6:

The simulated media reflects the escalating situation in the live environment, with virtual public and press sharing news and updates about the foreign neighbour’s aggression.

4. Competition key information

4.1 Submission deadline

12 midday (BST) on 2 May 2023

5. Where do I submit my proposal?

Via the DASA Online Submission Service for which you will require an account. Only proposals submitted through the DASA Online Submission Service will be accepted.

6. Total funding available

The total possible funding available for this competition is £2.845 million (ex VAT).

The Army is keen to select multiple proposals for funding. We anticipate proposals of between £100k and £300k but may consider higher proposal values that provide value for money (VFM). Genuinely compelling submissions outside these parameters will be considered. All proposals must not exceed 12 month project duration.

7. Supporting events

7.1 Industry Collaboration Survey during Proposal Preparation

Supplier Collaboration Survey - now closed

We encourage collaboration between organisations for this competition. To support this, we have a short survey to collect details of those who wish to explore collaboration possibilities. 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.

If you choose to complete the supplier collaboration survey, please be aware all the information you submit in the survey will be provided to other suppliers who also complete the survey. All industry collaboration for proposal submissions is on an industry-industry basis. Inclusion or absence of any individual supplier organisation will not affect assessment, which will be solely on technical evidence in the proposal.

7.2 Dial-in session

The Live recording of this event is now available to watch on YouTube

17 March 2023– A dial-in session was held providing further detail on the problem space and a chance to ask questions in an open forum.

7.3 Supplier 1 to 1 teleconferences

A series of 15-minute one-to-one teleconference sessions, giving you the opportunity to ask specific questions. If you would like to participate, please register on the Eventbrite page. Booking is on a first come first served basis.

To aid understanding for all potential innovator submissions we aim to issue a summary of key questions and our answers from both the open forum and the one-to-one sessions soon after these events.

• Register: 21 March 2023

• Register: 23 March 2023

8. Competition Scope

This challenge is not prescriptive; any technology, system or service that can deliver an element of this A3E capability will be considered.

• 8.1 Collective Training

The Army is primarily interested in submissions that support Collective Training, including Combat- and Mission-Ready Training.

• Combat Ready

Training enables the validation and certification of a Force Element’s competency to execute combined arms tactical actions.

• Mission Ready

Training is the preparation and validation of a Force Element for a specific mission. Mission Ready training is delivered with a level of intensity and complexity that meets the most demanding in-theatre operational scenarios, and thus requires a level of rapid reconfigurability. (Details are not currently available outside MOD, though will be available as per request as a Government Furnished Asset (GFA) (clearance permitting).

Scalable, configurable, consistent and seamless

The Army is looking for submissions that deliver scalable, configurable, consistent and seamless representation of A3E behaviours across the Live, Virtual and Constructive environments.

This challenge does not anticipate proposals that only focus on the provision of live players, though innovations that augment these role players and/or make them more credible, efficient or effective will be of interest.

9. Competition Challenges

This competition has five challenges related to A3E. Each of the challenge areas seek proposals ranging from Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 3 to 6 .

9.1 Challenge 1: A flexible human terrain

The human terrain must be sufficiently flexible to cater for all training requirements. It must be scalable, consistent and configurable across the Live, Virtual and Constructive (LVC) training domains from 100 to many thousands of personnel. It must offer a complex threat continuum, with sufficient breadth and depth to enable data-centric warfare to be exercised, that can be adjusted in-exercise to respond to the performance of the training audience.

This challenge will likely be solved by a combination of ideas that might include, but are not limited to:

• Threat representations that are consistent, both within and across the LVC environments.

• Systems that augment physical and virtual A3E capabilities.

• Systems that can record the activities of the A3E during the evolving exercise to support After Action Review and other data exploitation.

• Capabilities that can be integrated with tactical engagement systems, including Dismounted Situational Awareness (DSA), both technically and physically (e.g. for body-worn solutions (DSA consists of a headset, mic, radio and portable electronic device). For an example of how DSA provides the “digital backbone” for the Integrated Digital Soldier see Army Digitalisation: the THEIA programme

9.2 Challenge 2: A credible suite of players

The human terrain must be agile, able to test the training audience against a broad range of differentiated threats, from hostile civilians to organised insurgents to traditional state actors. The Army needs free thinking, unconstrained, organic role players, with the ability to replicate different styles of doctrine from a wide variety of potential adversaries, is critical to ensure complex, dynamic training that properly challenges the participants.

Ideas that might help solve this challenge area may include, but are not limited to:

• Live and Synthetic representation of actors across political, military, social, economic and cultural domains, such as inter/non-governmental organisations, tribal leaders, media, industry, infrastructure and services.

• Behavioural models that deliver credible human behaviours in computer-generated forces.

• Flexible human behavioural models that are:

Extensible

New behaviours can be authored to meet an emerging training requirement.

Composable

The right level of challenge can be injected into the scenario by providing multiple levels of behavioural complexity.

Re-useable

Behaviour logic can be defined agnostically to any given simulation to promote reuse.

Explainable

The ability of computer-generated A3E to create a narrative of what it “thought” was happening during the unfolding scenario and the decisions behind its course(s) of action for analysis and debriefing purposes.

9.3 Challenge 3: Representative threat systems

The human terrain must provide a full representation of threats, from a peer+ multifaceted threat (i.e. that is closely matched or superior to British forces in respects to size, capability and lethality), to actions below the threshold of conflict across the physical, digital, political and social environments.

Ideas that might help solve this challenge may include credible Live and Virtual means to enable the A3E to employ:

• Highly manoeuvrable mechanised forces, supported by wheeled/tracked vehicles and massed fires.

• Massed indirect fire capabilities, including the use of deep fires, counter battery, scatterable mines and thermobaric weapons.

• Armoured/mechanised ground forces supported by Air Assault, Air Defence, Fast Air and Rotary assets.

• Insurgency tactics and weapons, including improvised (such as, but not limited to, Improvised Explosive devices).

• Deliberate and improvised Chemical, Biological, Radiological & Nuclear weapons, offensive Cyber & Electromagnetic Activities, satellite denial activities, information activities.

9.4 Challenge 4: Remote and Autonomous Systems

In a world of increasing autonomy, the environment must represent the full spectrum of frictions from Remote and Autonomous Systems (RAS), including organic kinetic fires, and persistent, pervasive and layered Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance that directly links to Command & Control and fires.

Ideas that might help solve this challenge may include credible Live and Virtual means to enable the A3E to employ:

• Near real time and layered Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (i.e. employing multiple capabilities at the same time, “layering” them into a more complex challenge).

• Ground Manoeuvre Manned Reconnaissance.

• Kinetic and weaponised capabilities, from ground- and air-based RAS.

• The clutter of non-threatening RAS (e.g. services, media, deliveries).

9.5 Challenge 5: A credible Information Environment

The British Army currently exercises with relative communications freedom. The training environment needs to deliver a realistic and contested cyber and electromagnetic environment that deploys a wide range of offensive and defensive Electronic Warfare and Information Manoeuvre capabilities to shape perceptions and further challenge the training audience.

Ideas that might help solve this challenge may include credible Live and Virtual means to deliver:

• Adversarial Electronic Warfare capabilities, including signal detection, recognition, identification, location and exploitation (e.g. through listening, jamming, deception or targeting).

• Hostile Information Manoeuvre activities, including social media and disinformation.

• Credible cyber and electromagnetic clutter, such as local phone networks or blue light radio systems.

10. We are interested in…

We want novel ideas to benefit UK Defence and Security. Your proposal should include evidence of:

• addressing an A3E challenge through a proposed innovation ranging from Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 3 to 6

• theoretical development, method of advancement or proof of concept research which can demonstrate potential for translation to practical demonstration in later phases

• innovation or a creative approach* clear demonstration of how the proposed work applies to any defence and security context

11. We are not interested in…

We are not interested in proposals that:

• only deliver Live role players, unless they are accompanied by an innovative solution that augments and/or enhances their capability

• constitute consultancy, paper-based studies or literature reviews which just summarise the existing literature without any view of future innovation

• offer demonstrations of off-the-shelf products requiring no experimental development (unless applied in a novel way to the challenge)

• offer no real long-term prospect of integration into defence and security capabilities

• offer no real prospect of out-competing existing technological solutions

12. Accelerating and commercially exploiting your innovation

It is important that over the lifetime of DASA competitions, ideas are matured and accelerated towards appropriate end-users to enhance capability. How long this takes will depend on the nature and starting point of the innovation.

12.1 A clear route for commercial exploitation

This work is funded by the British Army in support of the Future Collective Training System (FCTS), to stimulate and develop nascent A3E capabilities ready for procurement no earlier than 2025. In the meantime, exploitation of successful innovations will likely be via programmed activities underway at the Land Warfare Centre that are delivering “the fight tonight”, and potentially by other training providers within Defence and Security. The introduction of transformative solutions will be iterative over the life of the FCTS, so there will be exploitation opportunities for maturing innovations until at least 2040.

For DASA to consider routes for commercial exploitation, ensure your deliverables are designed with the aim of making it as easy as possible for collaborators/stakeholders to identify the innovative elements of your proposal.

Whilst early identification and engagement with potential end users during the competition and subsequent phases are essential to implementing an exploitation plan, during the competition phase there should be no correspondence between innovators and DASA other than via the Accelerator email or Commercial team or via a DASA regional Innovation Partner.

All proposals to DASA should articulate the expected development in technology maturity of the potential solution over the lifetime of the contract and how this relates to improved operational capability against the current known (or presumed) baseline.

12.2 How to outline your exploitation plan

A higher technology maturity is expected in subsequent phases. Include the following information to help the assessors understand your exploitation plans to date:

• the intended defence or security users of your final product and whether you have previously engaged with them, their procurement arm or their research and development arm

• awareness of, and alignment to, any existing end user procurement programmes

• the anticipated benefits (for example, in cost, time, improved capability) that your solution will provide to the user

• whether it is likely to be a standalone product or integrated with other technologies or platforms

• expected additional work required beyond the end of the contract to develop an operationally deployable commercial product (for example, “scaling up” for manufacture, cyber security, integration with existing technologies, environmental operating conditions)

• additional future applications and wider markets for exploitation

• wider collaborations and networks you have already developed or any additional relationships you see as a requirement to support exploitation

• how your product could be tested in a representative environment in later phases

• any specific legal, ethical, commercial or regulatory considerations for exploitation

Is your exploitation plan long term?

Long term studies may not be able to articulate exploitation in great detail, but it should be clear that there is credible advantage to be gained from the technology development.

Include project specific information which will help exploitation. This competition is being carried out as part of a wider MOD programme and with cognisance of cross-Government initiatives. We may collaborate with organisations outside of the UK Government and this may provide the opportunity to carry out international trials and demonstrations in the future.

13. How to apply

13.1 Submission deadline

12 midday (BST) on 2 May 2023

Collaboration Survey will close on 21 April 2023

14. Where do I submit my proposal?

Via the DASA Online Submission Service for which you will be required to register.
Only proposals submitted through the DASA Online Submission Service will be accepted.

14.1 Total funding available

The total possible funding available for this competition is £2.845 million (ex VAT).

14.2 How many proposals will DASA fund

The Army is keen to select multiple proposals for funding. We anticipate proposals of between £100k and £300k but may consider higher proposal values that provide value for money (VFM). Genuinely compelling submissions outside these parameters will be considered. All proposals must not exceed 12 months project duration.

14.3 For further guidance

Click here for more information on our competition process and how your proposal is assessed.

Queries should be sent to the DASA Help Centre – accelerator@dstl.gov.uk

15. What your proposal must include

• when submitting a proposal, you must complete all sections of the online form, including an appropriate level of technical information to allow assessment of the bid and a completed finances section.

• completed proposals must comply with the financial rules set for this competition.

• you must include a list of other current or recent government funding you may have received in this area if appropriate, making it clear how this proposal differs from this work.

• a project plan with clear milestones and deliverables must be provided. Deliverables must be well defined and designed to provide evidence of progress against the project plan and the end-point for this phase; they must include a final report.

• you should also plan for attendance at a kick-off meeting at the start of the project, a mid-project event and an end of project event, as well as regular reviews with the appointed Technical Partner and Project Manager; all meetings will be in the UK. Meetings may also take place virtually.

• your proposal must demonstrate how you will complete all activities/services and provide all deliverables within the competition timescales (12 months). Proposals with any deliverables (including final report) outside the competition timeline will be rejected as non-compliant.

16. What your resourcing plan should include

Your resourcing plan must identify, where possible, the nationalities of proposed employees that you intend to work on this phase.

17. If your proposal is recommended for funding

In the event of a proposal being recommended for funding, the DASA reserves the right to undertake due diligence checks including the clearance of proposed employees.

Please note that this process will take as long as necessary and could take up to 6 weeks in some cases for non-UK nationals.

You must identify any ethical / legal / regulatory factors within your proposal and how the associated risks will be managed, including break points in the project if approvals are not received.

MODREC approvals can take up to 5 months therefore you should plan your work programme accordingly. If you are unsure if your proposal will need to apply for MODREC approval, then please refer to the MODREC Guidance for Suppliers or contact your Innovation Partner for further guidance.

Requirements for access to Government Furnished Assets (GFA), for example, information, equipment, materials and facilities, may be included in your proposal. DASA cannot guarantee that GFA will be available. If you apply for GFA, you should include an alternative plan in case it is not available.

17.1 Failure to provide any of the above listed will automatically render your proposal non-compliant.

18. Cyber risk assessment

18.1 Supplier Assurance Questionnaire (SAQ)

On receipt of a ‘Fund’ decision, successful suppliers must submit a Supplier Assurance Questionnaire (SAQ) The SAQ allows suppliers to demonstrate compliance with the specified risk level and the corresponding profile in Def Stan 05-138, the levels of controls required will depend on this risk level

If selected for funding, the innovator must prove cyber resilience before a contract will be awarded. Further guidance can be found at: DCPP: Cyber Security Model industry buyer and supplier guide.

To expedite the contracting time of successful suppliers we ask all suppliers to consider completing the SAQ before they submit their proposal. The SAQ can be completed here using the DASA Risk Assessment RAR- 568014828 and answer questions for risk level “Very Low”.

You will be required to answer questions for the selected risk level, then the Defence Cyber Protection Partnership (DCPP) will review your SAQ submission and respond with a reference number within 2 working days. Please allow enough time to receive the SAQ reference number prior to competition close at 12 midday (BST) on 2 May 2023.

If you have any questions please contact accelerator@dstl.gov.uk

18.2 Defence Cyber Protection Partnership

If the proposal is being funded, the SAQ will be evaluated against the CRA for the competition. The Defence Cyber Protection Partnership (DCPP) will review your SAQ submission and respond with a reference number. Your proposal will then be put into one of the following categories:

1.compliant – no further action

2.not compliant – if successful in competition and being funded, the innovator will be required to complete a Cyber Implementation Plan (CIP) before the contract is placed, which will need to be reviewed and agreed with the relevant project manager

Innovators can enter a proposal without all controls in place, but are expected to have all the cyber protection measures necessary to fulfil the requirements of the contract in place at the time of contract award, or have an agreed Cyber Implementation Plan (CIP).

The CIP provides evidence as to how and when potential innovators will achieve compliance. Provided the measures proposed in the Cyber Implementation Plan do not pose an unacceptable risk to the MOD, a submission with a Cyber Implementation Plan will be considered alongside those who can achieve the controls.

A final check will be made to ensure cyber resilience before the contract is placed. Commercial staff cannot progress without it. This process does not replace any contract specific security requirements.

Further guidance for completing this process can be requested by emailing the DASA Help Centre: accelerator@dstl.gov.uk.

Additional information about cyber security can be found at: DCPP: Cyber Security Model industry buyer and supplier guide.

19. Public facing information

When submitting your proposal, you will be required to include a title and a short abstract. The title and abstract you provide will be used by DASA, and other government departments, to describe your project and its intended outcomes and benefits. They may be included at DASA events in relation to this competition and in documentation such as brochures.

The proposal title will be published in the DASA transparency data page on GOV.UK, along with your company name, the amount of funding, and the start and end dates of your contract. As this information can be shared, it should not contain information that may compromise Intellectual property.

20. How your proposal will be assessed

At Stage 1, all proposals will be checked for compliance with the competition document and may be rejected before full assessment if they do not comply. Only those proposals that demonstrate compliance against the competition scope and DASA mandatory criteria will be taken forward to full assessment.

21. Mandatory Criteria

The proposal outlines how it meets the scope of the competition	Within scope (Pass) / Out of scope (Fail)
The proposal fully explains in all three sections of the DASA submission service how it meets the DASA criteria	Pass / Fail
The proposal clearly details a financial plan, a project plan and a resourcing plan to complete the work proposed in Phase 1	Pass / Fail
The proposal identifies the need (or not) for MODREC approval	Pass / Fail
The proposal identifies any GFA required for Phase 1	Pass / Fail
The proposal demonstrates how all research and development activities / services (including delivery of the final report) will be completed within 12 months from award of contract (or less) (as above)	Pass / Fail
The bidder has obtained the authority to provide unqualified acceptance of the terms and conditions of the Contract.	Pass / Fail

Proposals that pass Stage 1 will then be assessed against the standard DASA assessment criteria (Desirability, Feasibility and Viability) by subject matter experts from the MOD (including Dstl), other government departments and the front-line military commands. You will not have the opportunity to view or comment on assessors’ recommendations.

DASA reserves the right to disclose on a confidential basis any information it receives from innovators during the procurement process (including information identified by the innovator as Commercially Sensitive Information in accordance with the provisions of this competition) to any third party engaged by DASA for the specific purpose of evaluating or assisting DASA in the evaluation of the innovator’s proposal. In providing such information the innovator consents to such disclosure. Appropriate confidentiality agreements will be put in place.

Further guidance on how your proposal is assessed is available on the DASA website.

After assessment, proposals will be discussed internally at a Decision Conference where, based on the assessments, budget and wider strategic considerations, a decision will be made on the proposals that are recommended for funding.

21.1 Innovators are not permitted to attend the Decision Conference.

Proposals that are unsuccessful will receive brief feedback after the Decision Conference.

22. Things you should know about DASA contracts: DASA terms and conditions

Please read the DASA terms and conditions which contain important information for innovators. For this competition we will be using For this competition we will use the Innovation Standard Contract (ISC) Terms and Schedules, you will find a current example of our purchase order here. Please also see DASA Standard Terms and Conditions Guidance.

We will require unqualified acceptance of the terms and conditions; if applicable, please ensure your commercial department has provided their acceptance.

Funded projects will be allocated a Project Manager (to run the project) and a Technical Partner (as a technical point of contact). In addition, the DASA team will work with you to support delivery and exploitation including, when appropriate, introductions to end-users and business support to help develop their business.

We will use deliverables from DASA contracts in accordance with our rights detailed in the contract terms and conditions.

For this competition, £2.845M is currently available to fund proposals. There may be occasions when additional funding may become available to allow us to revisit proposals deemed suitable for funding. Therefore, DASA reserves the right to keep such proposals in reserve. In the event that additional funding becomes available, DASA may ask whether you would still be prepared to undertake the work outlined in your proposal under the same terms.

23. Phase 1 key dates

Dial-in	17 March 2023
Pre bookable 1-1 Telecom Sessions	21 March 2023 & 23 March 2023
Collaboration Survey Closes	21 April 2023
Competition Closes	2 May 2023 at 12 midday (BST)
Feedback Release	30 June 2023
Contracting	Aim to start August 2023 and end after 12 months project duration.

24. Help: Contact the DASA Help Centre

Competition queries including on process, application, commercial, technical and intellectual property aspects should be sent to the DASA Help Centre at accelerator@dstl.gov.uk, quoting the competition title. If you wish receive future updates on this competition, please email the DASA Help Centre.

While all reasonable efforts will be made to answer queries, DASA reserves the right to impose management controls if volumes of queries restrict fair access of information to all potential innovators.