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The Open Call is looking for innovative ideas to improve the defence and security of the UK. Your idea could be a concept, product or service, at various levels of maturity.
1. What is the Open Call? The Open Call is one of the funding competition…
1. What are Innovation Focus Areas? Whilst the Open Call welcomes a wide…
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Guidance on Defence and Security Accelerator terms and conditions for funding, contracts and intellectual property rights.
This Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) competition is to accelerate the adoption of PYRAMID Reference Architecture (PRA) in avionics and mission systems.
1. Introduction This Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) competition…
How to submit a proposal to the Defence and Security Accelerator
DASA, in conjunction with AWE, is seeking innovative ideas to further enhance UK-sovereign, resilient, demonstrable capabilities for the space and air domains.
How to get in touch with DASA for advice and guidance
This guidance explains our competition process and how your proposal is assessed.
This DASA competition is seeking proposals that can make a real-world difference, fast and at scale.
Loans of up to £1 million with a below market interest rate of 7.4% per annum to help convert your mature defence innovation into a strong business proposition for defence procurement.
This guidance sets out the process for determining whether governance approval and ethics review is required for research undertaken, funded or sponsored by MOD.
The UK accelerator has been chosen as one of the 13 affiliated accelerator sites participating in NATO DIANA’s 2025 accelerator programme.
The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) supported by Innovate UK has launched a new opportunity to apply for grant funding.
The Early Market Engagement pilot scheme will run collaborative workshops for Defence to work with industry and academia.
Details of the Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) past Innovation Focus Areas (IFAs)
Guidance to consider when submitting a proposal
DASA is seeking innovations that will enable deployed forces to move away from logistics resupply, towards self-sufficiency and enhanced operational energy.
A DASA competition looking at novel protective solutions to protect against Uncrewed Aerial Systems kinetic attack
This Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) competition is run on behalf of the British Army.
A Market Exploration to find technological solutions for increasing the effective and ethical use of Facial Recognition within policing and other security agencies.
Acceptable use policy for the Defence and Security Accelerator online submission service.
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