Competition: Generation After Next Communications & Networks
This competition seeks innovations for communications, networking and information services, to help solve defence challenges.
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This Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) competition is seeking proposals for innovative technologies for communications, networking and information services, with an emphasis on the challenges that are specific to defence. This competition is part of a phased campaign being run in support of the Dstl Communications and Networks Programme.
The scope includes the development of new physical layers, networking and information layer concepts and protocols, as well as cross-cutting aspects such as inter-layer interactions, network management approaches, and the impact of novel information assurance technologies. We are particularly interested in proposals that address the challenges specific to the defence context and hence are less likely to be satisfied by technologies directly lifted from the civil world. Examples of such issues include;
- Denial of communications technologies by highly capable adversaries
- The need to adapt rapidly to changing operational context – including changes in communications capability – without dependence on expert staff
- The need to integrate rapidly into heterogeneous networks and information systems
Updates to this page
Last updated 24 May 2023 + show all updates
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The GAN Communications & Networks Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), from the Question and Answer session, have been attached
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Amended the guidance around completing a Supplier Assurance Questionnaire (SAQ) to cohere this competition with other recently published guidance documents. No changes to the submission stages on DASA's online submission services have been made.
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