Deadline: 22-Feb-23
The Open Call welcomes applications from a wide range of innovative ideas to solve problems faced by the defence and security customers, DASA is keen to share insight on specific topics of interest.
Innovative solutions for any innovation focus area should be channelled via the Open Call for Innovation.
The Open Call is one of the funding competition mechanisms DASA uses to find proposals that address challenges faced by government stakeholders. It gives bidders the opportunity to present their ideas to defence and security stakeholders at any time, without waiting for a relevant Themed Competition.
This IFA aims to harness the strengths of the UK innovation landscape to provide Advanced Materials solutions in support of defence’s generation-after-next capabilities.
Challenges
- This IFA is seeking innovative solutions against the following challenges:
- Challenge 1: Intelligent materials and structures: This challenge is focused on materials and structures that can either sense changes in their environment, actuate a change under extreme environmental conditions, or a combination of both. This challenge is also concerned with assessing the aging and degradation of deployable and morphing structures and its impact on long-term performance.
- Specific areas of interest
- Complex weapons
- Air
- Space
- Land
- Maritime
- FAME.
- Challenge 2: Materials for enhanced thermal management: This challenge is focused on materials and structures that can withstand extremes of temperatures, including structural materials for high temperatures in oxidative, corrosive or/and erosive environments and materials to support the protection of people and equipment operating in extreme (high or low) temperatures. This challenge is also concerned with either limiting heat transfer to or providing effective routes to transfer heat rapidly away from critical components.
- Specific areas of interest
- Complex weapons
- Air
- Space
- Land
- Maritime
- FAME.
Funding Information
- The total available funding for FAME is £100K-£250K for 9–18 month projects.
What are they looking for?
- The Open Call is looking for innovative ideas to improve the defence and/or security of the UK. Your idea could be a concept, technology or service. Their Emerging Innovations category is for less mature innovations, and their Rapid Impact category is for innovations that are more developed.
For more information, visit DASA.