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Reopening: Making Science Fiction a Reality

Land September 11, 2023

DASA is pleased to reopen this Innovation Focus Area which aims to find novel ideas that will shine a light on the future of Directed Energy Weapons across Land, Sea and Air domains The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) is pleased to launch an Innovation Focus Area (IFA) called Making Science Fiction a Reality: ...

DASA £880,000 competition seeks to reduce cyber risk

Homeland September 7, 2023

A new competition has been launched by DASA to help quantify and reduce cyber risk across defence and enhance digital resilience. The £880,000 Themed Competition is being funded by the Cyber Resilience Programme (CRP) in Defence Digital, a part of Strategic Command. The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) is seeking up to five proposals ...

DASA seeks facial recognition technologies

Homeland September 5, 2023

DASA is seeking new technologies to help increase the use and effectiveness of facial recognition technologies within UK policing and security. Run on behalf of the Home Office, this Market Exploration is seeking to identify higher Technology Readiness Level (TRL) capabilities that could be deployed to benefit the Home Office and Policing and within ...

Second life for military body armour

Land September 1, 2023

Supported by the DASA funding and run by veterans, a London-based green tech start-up has developed a process to recycle end-of-life body armour fibres, seeing high-quality protection for soldiers alongside reductions in emissions and saving money. When body armour used by soldiers expires, it is currently incinerated, resulting in the loss ...