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Accelerator Enduring Challenge Competition Launch Opening Session
- 1. OFFICIAL Defence and Security AcceleratorEnduring Challenge competition relaunch Defence and Security Accelerator
- 2. OFFICIAL Defence and Security Accelerator Defence and Security Accelerator Defence and Security Accelerator Welcome and introduction to the Accelerator Rob Solly, Head of the Defence and Security Accelerator
- 3. OFFICIAL • Overview of the Accelerator Enduring Challenge • Key note speech from Harriett Baldwin MP • Perspectives and technology challenges from a Security Agency, the Royal Navy, Army and RAF • Meet the Enduring Challenge Experts • Exhibitions open from 1330 – access to military advisers and technical experts Agenda for the day
- 4. OFFICIAL IRIS Ideas Exploitation Users & Investors Fund Fund Advice & AccessAdvice & Access Inform Inform Innovation Fund Fund IRIS = Innovation and Research InSight Unit Inform The role of the Accelerator Suppliers & Inventors
- 5. OFFICIAL Collaboration to accelerate exploitation Accelerator Capability delivered to Defence & Security community Improved understanding potential markets Marketable products Procurable solutionsImproved understanding potential solutions Suppliers & Inventors Users & Investors Ideas Exploitation
- 6. OFFICIAL • Extend our reach to anyone with innovative ideas • Hold regular themed competitions to address specific defence and security challenges • Promote the Accelerator Enduring Challenge to more broadly capture potential innovations that address the most important issues for defence and security • Improve routes to exploitation, following initial Accelerator proof-of-concept funding Our priorities
- 7. OFFICIAL Operate and improve Develop Jan 2017 – Dec 2017 Jan 2018 – June 2019 Capability • Recruit Accelerator team • Innovation partners • Online collaboration portal • Enhanced collaboration mechanisms (virtual and physical ideas generation and experimentation) Operations • Enduring challenge (phase 1) • Specific innovation challenges (phase 1) Capability • Further experimentation and demonstration initiatives • Increase the funnel for exploitation of ideas Operations • Phase 2 of enduring challenge and specific innovation challenges Accelerator timescales
- 8. OFFICIAL • Developing new capabilities over time • The plan isn’t fixed, we’re experimenting • We want to hear your ideas Applying an experimental approach
- 9. OFFICIAL Defence and Security Accelerator Enduring challenge overview Jim Pennycook, Innovation partner Defence and Security Accelerator
- 10. OFFICIAL Why an Enduring competition? OFFICIAL
- 14. OFFICIALOFFICIAL Enduring challenge competition Power Provision/sources, non-fossil, hybrid, management, fuel efficiency Communications Secure, unsecure, mobile, novel forms Situational Awareness Sensors, precision navigation & timing, reduced GPS dependability, surveillance Lethality Weapons – conventional, novel directed energy, defence, less-than-lethal Mobility Platforms [air, land, sea, space, human], means of propulsion Human Performance Physical and mental, systems interface, survivability, training, medical Lower cost of ownership Platforms, equipment, facilities Protection Personnel, platforms, facilities, digital systems, materials Data Cyber, information, big data, management and processing, sense-making, visualisation, delivery, interoperability 9 challenge areas for defence and security
- 15. OFFICIAL Previous enduring challenge 2148 proposals received 234 proposals funded 11% success rate 51% of contracts placed with SMEs £18.6 million invested
- 16. OFFICIAL An enhanced enduring challenge Increased focus on exploitation Involvement of security Multiple points of entry for innovators Welcome non technology based solutions Increased funding
- 17. OFFICIAL Enduring principles Engage with all innovators Provide funded opportunities Minimise participation costs Foster a healthy attitude to risk Maintain a benevolent stance on IP
- 18. OFFICIAL Defence and Security Accelerator Defence and Security Accelerator Defence and Security Accelerator Enduring Challenge – How it works Bruce Hardie, Enduring Competition Manager
- 20. OFFICIALOFFICIAL Enduring challenge competition Power Provision/sources, non-fossil, hybrid, management, fuel efficiency Communications Secure, unsecure, mobile, novel forms Situational Awareness Sensors, precision navigation & timing, reduced GPS dependability, surveillance Lethality Weapons – conventional, novel directed energy, defence, less-than-lethal Mobility Platforms [air, land, sea, space, human], means of propulsion Human Performance Physical and mental, systems interface, survivability, training, medical Lower cost of ownership Platforms, equipment, facilities Protection Personnel, platforms, facilities, digital systems, materials Data Cyber, information, big data, management and processing, sense-making, visualisation, delivery, interoperability 9 challenge areas for defence and security
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- 34. OFFICIAL A. Impact on defence and security B. Likelihood of Exploitation C. Advancing important innovation D. Innovation and scientific quality E. Level of challenge OFFICIALOFFICIAL Assessment Categories
- 37. OFFICIAL Defence and Security Accelerator Defence and Security Accelerator Defence and Security Accelerator Keynote Harriett Baldwin MP, Minister for Defence Procurement
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- Will need to explain what IRIS is
- This may all be covered in Min(DP)’s speech……
- Access to innovation engage with innovators provide funded opportunities minimise participation costs healthy attitude to risk benevolent stance on IP
- Access to innovation engage with innovators provide funded opportunities minimise participation costs healthy attitude to risk benevolent stance on IP
- 2148 proposals received 234 proposals funded 11% success rate 51% of contracts placed with SMEs £18.6 million invested
- The Enduring Competition comprise the same nine broadly defined challenges recognised as being the problems facing military commanders down through the centuries. These nine broad tactical issues will remain a key focus for the enduring competition within the new Accelerator. However, as the Accelerator grows in capability, our goal is work with UK government Security Agencies to include their enduring challenges in the scope of the competition. Like the enduring competition under the CDE, the Accelerator will offer proof of concept funding for low technology readiness level innovations. However, unlike the previous enduring competition where the focus was primarily on science and technology the new enduring competition will be open to innovative ideas which can deliver valuable capabilities and which Minister will expand upon shortly. [NEXT SLIDE]
- Not a new idea. Valuable tool for MOD Increased involvement of stakeholders, including our security partners Innovation Partners to steward potential solutions through development Multiple points of entry for suppliers Technology and non technology based solutions welcome Increased funding (????) We will continue to evolve as we learn
- Not a new idea. Valuable tool for MOD Increased involvement of stakeholders, including our security partners Innovation Partners to steward potential solutions through development Multiple points of entry for suppliers Technology and non technology based solutions welcome Increased funding (????) We will continue to evolve as we learn
- Not a new idea. Valuable tool for MOD Increased involvement of stakeholders, including our security partners Innovation Partners to steward potential solutions through development Multiple points of entry for suppliers Technology and non technology based solutions welcome Increased funding (????) We will continue to evolve as we learn
- This may all be covered in Min(DP)’s speech…… We will continue to evolve as we learn Innovation Partners to steward potential solutions through development Technology and non technology based solutions welcome Lanyards
- This may all be covered in Min(DP)’s speech…… We will continue to evolve as we learn Innovation Partners to steward potential solutions through development Technology and non technology based solutions welcome Lanyards
- This may all be covered in Min(DP)’s speech…… We will continue to evolve as we learn Innovation Partners to steward potential solutions through development
- This may all be covered in Min(DP)’s speech…… We will continue to evolve as we learn Innovation Partners to steward potential solutions through development
- This may all be covered in Min(DP)’s speech……
- Thanks Jim Good morning everybody – my name is Bruce Hardie and I’m the Accelerators Enduring Competition Manager. [NEXT SLIDE]
- As has been explained, the Enduring Competition started life as the Open Competition and was the cornerstone of the Centre for Defence Enterprise, the CDE. It was reserved for those things which Defence just hadn’t thought about: those really radical and disruptive ideas which come out of left field. Time and time again CDE saw that majority of exceptional ideas submitted to the Enduring Competition came from non-traditional organisations many of whom were new to defence research. Building on the evidence gained in CDE’s years of operation - that open engagement with non-traditional organisations can deliver radical and disruptive capabilities - the Defence and Security Accelerator continues to recognise the Enduring Competition as a firm foundation for its future operations. [NEXT]
- The Enduring Competition comprise the same nine broadly defined challenges recognised as being the problems facing military commanders down through the centuries. These nine broad tactical issues will remain a key focus for the enduring competition within the new Accelerator. However, as the Accelerator grows in capability, our goal is work with UK government Security Agencies to include their enduring challenges in the scope of the competition. Like the enduring competition under the CDE, the Accelerator will offer proof of concept funding for low maturity innovative ideas. However, unlike the previous enduring competition where the focus was primarily on science and technology the new enduring competition will be open to innovative ideas which can deliver valuable capabilities and which Minister will expand upon shortly. [NEXT SLIDE]
- Here you can see the operation space of the enduring competition. The Accelerator part is in blue. We use technology readiness levels or TRLs, to provide a measurement to assess the maturity of evolving concepts. Our phase-1 competitions are searching for ideas that are already at TRL 2 to 3, where a concept has developed and a potential application has been identified. We want to take these emerging ideas and fund work to take them to a higher TRL, ideally with outputs at TRL 4 where low fidelity deliverables can generate evidence that the basic component parts of an idea will work together. Having evidence that the outputs from this work are likely to offer valuable benefits to defence and security, we will look to provide follow on, or Phase 2 funding, to mature innovative ideas up to TRL 6 where a higher fidelity prototype can be demonstrated. We also aspire to further increase the level of maturity of these outputs through other Accelerator resources. Our funding ethos is that we want the best ideas that successfully complete our funded competitions to go on to realise their potential benefits. [NEXT SLIDE]
- Minister will announce shortly in her keynote address the new level of funding for the enduring competition. What I can say is that funding will be awarded though competitions which have a monthly drumbeat and that the number of competitions per year will now be increased. Our cost and timescales for individual Phase 1 proposals will be limited to £90k and 9months in duration. [NEXT SLIDE]
- Under CDE, the enduring competition was limited to Phase 1 funding. Unlike themed competitions where follow Phase 2 funding is programmed in from the Phase 1 launch, the CDE enduring competition relied heavily on other sources for downstream development. I am pleased to say that follow-on funding for this critical aspect of innovation development will in the future become an established part of the Accelerators enduring competition. Access to regular Phase 2 enduring competitions for the very best of innovative ideas will significantly increase the potential for exploitation and go a long way to overcoming the perceived valley of death related to innovation. A cost ceiling for Phase 2 proposals has not yet been finalised - however it is likely that proposals will be up to £0.5m and 18 months in duration. [NEXT SLIDE]
- The Accelerator will continue to use the Submission Service developed by CDE and launched in December 2015. This service was built on the needs of CDE competition users and has received lots of excellent feedback. I am sure that all those of you who set up accounts for previous CDE competitions will be delighted to hear that your accounts remain valid and will not require any modifications. For those of you who are new to defence and security competitions and who are thinking of entering one – creating an account is a straightforward affair. [NEXT SLIDE]
- For those of you who are new to the enduring competition - all you need to do is enter some simple contact information about yourself and the organisation you represent; confirm that you have authorisation from your organisation to enter our competitions and that you have read our acceptable usage and privacy policies - and you’re up and running! [NEXT SLIDE]
- More good news is that the Accelerator will continue to use the same proposal format for its competitions. Even though we are expanding the enduring competition to embrace broader ideas we are confident that our 5 step process for building your proposal remains valid - whether for Phase 1 or Phase 2 proposals. In this first step we still want you to tell us about - the competition you are entering and the challenge area your proposal aims to provide a solution for. [NEXT SLIDE]
- In the second step we want you to provide a title and a high level summary of what it is about - so that we can find the best people to assess it. [NEXT SLIDE]
- The third step of the submission process is where the meat of your proposal is entered and is split into 4 sub-sections. The idea Defence and security relevance Your work plan and research approach Exploitation beyond the proof-of-concept stage [NEXT SLIDE]
- In these subsections we want to know about how your innovation works and what its size weight and power requirements are. How, and to what extent, it will benefit defence and security and also how you think your innovation compares to any rival capabilities which may exist. We still want to know about the scope of work you intend carry out and how through the rigorous testing of your deliverables you will produce evidence that the benefits of adopting your innovation will ultimately be realised. We also still want to know about any issues and risks you think might adversely affect producing those deliverables. And very importantly we still want to know about your vision for the future of your innovation. Who do you know, besides us, who could help you to exploit your innovation and help to bring it to market. [NEXT SLIDE]
- Then in the fourth step we need you to include details of cost breakdown, timescales and any milestone payments you might need in order to carry out your work [NEXT SLIDE]
- And finally we still need you to check your data for completeness and then to submit it to us for assessment I appreciate that I have gone through these factors very quickly but the great thing about the submission service is there is a lot of on-line help about what you need to include when you are completing your proposal. [NEXT SLIDE]
- Whatever your idea is about a note of caution Accelerator competitions will for the present continue to be run at an OFFICIAL level. So please remember that your proposal mustn’t include any information that you wouldn’t be happy to leave on a train.!! [NEXT SLIDE]
- Assessment of proposals will follow our established evidence based performance assessment methodology. This methodology is tried and tested and has evolved over 8 years of assessing more than SIX and HALF thousand proposals. Every one of our assessors involved in competitions receives training on this assessment methodology which instructs them to consider the following FIVE categories - and unless we otherwise explicitly state it – you can be sure that ALL our assessors are Crown Servants and will protect your IP. [NEXT SLIDE]
- A. What kind of impact we think your idea is likely to have on defence and security B. How likely we think it is that we will be able to exploit your idea C. Whether we think development of ideas such as yours will be good for both UK defence and security and also for UK plc D. How innovative we think your idea is and how clear and robust we think your proposed approach is to the work you propose to carry out E. And lastly what level of challenge you think the proposed work will face in order to produce the deliverables. [NEXT SLIDE]
- Once submitted, the Accelerator will assess your proposals with the same agility as did CDE and will return a FUND or NO FUND decision to you within approximately 1 month of the competition closing. Where a proposal is to be funded then we aim to have the supplier on contract as soon as possible and this is usually within 6 weeks of decision making. If communication between our commercial department and supplier is good this can be significantly reduced and our record for getting a supplier on contract is just over 24 hours. If your proposal is selected for funding you will receive support during the contract. The Accelerator will provide technical advice and assistance to guide potential solutions through their development, matching suppliers with ideas, with customers’ needs. Unsuccessful proposals will continue to receive actionable and constructive written feedback in order to help bidders decide the best way forward. [NEXT SLIDE]
- So to sum up.. After a brief pause the Enduring competition is back. It’s back with new levels of funding for the next financial year. It’s back with a broader scope and a remit to provide valuable follow on opportunities. And it’s back with a familiar and straightforward process at the minimum of participation costs… So what’s not to like!! Thank you for your attention. I’m now going to hand over to Rob to introduce our keynote speaker.