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SBRI funding competition: IRC 2016 for explosives & weapons detection

Organisations can apply for a share of £3 million for innovative research projects in explosives and weapons detection.

• From: Innovate UK
• Published: 30 August 2016
• Last updated: 7 October 2016 — See all updates

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Competition brief: IRC 2016 for explosives & weapons detection

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The Innovative Research Call (IRC) 2016 for Explosives and Weapons Detection will fund up to £3 million in innovative research projects for explosives and weapons detection.

IRC 2016 is the fourth iteration of this successful cross-government research call. It aims to identify innovation in all aspects of explosives and weapons detection. Projects can either develop original ideas or adapt successful technologies, techniques or processes from other fields.

The competition is looking for proposals in the following challenge areas:

• buildings and areas
• goods
• people and/or their possessions
• vehicles

This is a Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) competition run in partnership with Innovate UK.

The government partners for this competition are:

• Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism and Centre for Applied Science and Technology at the Home Office
• Department for Transport
• Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure
• Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
• Metropolitan Police Service
• U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate

This competition has 2 phases. Up to £1 million is allocated for Phase 1, and up to £2 million for Phase 2.

• phase 1: proof of concept. Projects should last up to 6 months. Projects can range in size from total costs of zero to around £60,000
• phase 2: development contracts. Projects should last up to 2 years

The competition opens on 12 September 2016.

You must register before noon on 12 October 2016.

You must apply before noon on 19 October 2016.

Access the presentation slides of the briefing event which was held on Tuesday 27 September 2016 when you click on ‘register and apply’ below.

Registration has now closed.

Not right for your innovation project? View other Innovate UK funding competitions.

Published 30 August 2016
Last updated 7 October 2016 + show all updates

1. 7 October 2016

   The briefing event has now passed so have removed the link but made it clear that presentation slides are available.

2. 12 September 2016

   Added registration link

3. 1 September 2016

   Added SBRI into the title

4. 30 August 2016

   First published.