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Defence and Security Accelerator

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How will the competition work?Jim Pennycook, Innovation PartnerEmma Howe, Themed Competition Manager

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Up to £6 million available

Competition value

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2 track, 2 phase approach

Competition structure

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Fast trackPhase 1Project duration 3 monthsProposal up to £150,000Phase 2Project duration 6 months

Competition structure

Standard trackPhase 1Project duration 6 monthsProposal up to £100,000Phase 2Project duration12 months

Same level of phase 2 funding between the two tracks

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Fast track• Higher level of phase 1 funding

• Shorter time to market

• Potential access to demonstration opportunities

Benefits

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Benefits

Standard track• additional development time to prove a novel concept

• time to form new collaborations to enhance a phase 2

proposal

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What

Collaboration

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A

Exploitation

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Competition document

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Additional information

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Challenges

Competition structure

3

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Allowing rapid and automated integration of new sensors

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1

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What we are interested in:

• integration of raw data sensors

• integration of intelligent information sources

• processing

• fusion

• autonomous sensor management

Challenge

1

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What we are not interested in:

• mechanisms to enable non-cooperative access

to collection assets

• solutions where the number of sensors is limited

• distributed architectures

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1

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Free up personnel by the innovative use of machine learning algorithms and artificial intelligence for military advantage

Challenge

2

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What we are interested in:

• automated activity classification

• cognitive computing

• combined human machine derived models

• predictive analytics

Challenge

2

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What we are not interested in:

• machine-learning solutions which are highly

optimised for input training data, leading to

problems associated with over-fitting and

failure when environmental parameters

change

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2

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Make effective use of operator cognitive capacity, particularly by human-machine teaming

Challenge

3

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What we are interested in:

• memory

• reasoning

• teaming – relevant roles

• teaming – individual and team interaction

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3

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What we are not interested in solutions that:

• replace the human or which require no

human involvement

• are overly complex, require substantial

training

• force people into unnatural ways of

operating or behaving

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3

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What we are not interested in solutions that:

• don’t include integration with other proposed

solutions delivering information and

processing capability

• use static information visualisation solutions

Challenge

3

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Competition information

Webinar27 February 2017

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Online bid submission

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Assessors

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Intellectual property

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Technical partners

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Technical queries

challenge1@dstl.gov.uk

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General queries

accelerator@dstl.gov.uk

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Competition closes

March

2121 March 2017 at 12 noon

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Defence and Security Accelerator

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Thank you for your attention