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Enterprise
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Themed Competition Webinar

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3. The aim of CDE
Technology
Best providers
Barriers

4. 20 May 2014
Funding research

5. Two routes to funding
Enduring
Themed

6. Themed competition
Requirements
Bounded
Specific

7. CDE themed competition
Future Sonar
Harnessing discovery and invention for future sonar
advantage

8. Enduring challenge
competition
Perpetual
Radical
£3M per year

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Enduring challenges
• protection
• situational awareness
• power
• communications
• data
• lethality
• mobility
• human performance
• lower cost of ownership
• new capabilities

10. Online bid submission
CDE Portal
Only route
Low overhead

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12. Intellectual property

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14. CDE Innovation Network

15. Centre for Defence Enterprise
Future Sonar
Harnessing discovery and invention for future sonar
advantage
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16. Maritime Freedom of Manoeuvre
Maintain Freedom of Manoeuvre within the maritime environment in the face
of changing threats, environment and technology
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Themes
Freedom of Manoeuvre
Submarine capability
Remote Mine Countermeasures
Anti Submarine Warfare
Geospatial intelligence gathering
Project structure
Sonarand
acoustics
Non-acoustic
sensing
Systems
analysis
Remote
systems
UWweapons
Signaturesand
Survivability
UWComms&
Networks
UWDAS
UWplatform
systems
Sonarand
acoustics
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Current ship-borne ASW
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Active sensing for anti-submarine warfare
Future distributed ASW
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Active sensing for mine countermeasures
Current MCM sensing
Future MCM sensing

19. What would a sonar advantage look like
for active sonar?
What are the challenges?
• smaller, lighter, more numerous, low powered, unmanned, networked,
intelligent, remote, multi-influence, environmentally friendly…
What are the future threats?
• traditional threats plus… smaller, manned/unmanned, more numerous…
More likely to be a combined and distributed sensing field with:
• improved performance in all environments
• reduced cost and greater reliability
• assurance of what works and where it works
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Passive sensing for submarines
Current platforms
Future platforms
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What are the challenges?
• thinner, lighter, less compressible, lower powered…
We are looking for new passive sonar technologies and materials for
manned platforms and unmanned vehicles
• must provide step change in performance
• must be more effective without increasing size or cost
• must maintain ability to suppress self-noise
What would a sonar advantage look like
for passive sonar?

22. Measuring the benefits of sonar
improvements to decision effectiveness
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Mission Effectiveness
Decision Effectiveness
Situational Awareness
Tactical Picture Quality
Improved
capability
New measures,
tools and techniques

23. Non-destructive evaluation of sonar technology
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Traditional non-destructive evaluation (NDE) techniques have some limitations, for
example in detecting deep defects, which make it difficult to fully assess current sonar
arrays
We are looking for new techniques to
• offer improved resolution of the
information on the material /
mechanical properties of the sonar
• be safe to use, reliable, and cost
effective
• help to reduce the repair time and
the impact of having to make
repairs

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What could future sonar be?
Listening with a
'quantum ear'
(Physics World, Feb 2012)
“First Graphene Audio Speaker
Easily Outperforms Traditional
Designs”
(MIT Technology Review, March 2013)

25. How can technological discoveries and
breakthroughs offer an advantage?
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Image courtesy of The Boeing Company / Bob Ferguson

26. Invitation for Proposals – Challenge 1
Harnessing discovery and invention for future sonar advantage
Solutions that can challenge traditional approaches and lead to a sonar
advantage that can surprise a UK adversary
• Proposals are invited from experts and innovators who are leading the
thinking around the technology under investigation
• Proposals should advance the exploitation readiness of the proposed
solution
• Develop game changing technology
• Develop and maintain UK capability in underwater acoustic sensing
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27. Invitation for Proposals – Challenge 2
Measuring Decision Effectiveness
How effective is the application of new technology (sonar / processing /
automated displays) in improving decision effectiveness?
We are looking for new measures of decision effectiveness and the tools and
techniques to measure the effectiveness resulting from different systems or
processes
• Proposals are invited from leading innovators across all sectors
• Proposals should be at proof-of-concept stage
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28. Invitation for Proposals – Challenge 3
Non-Destructive Evaluation of Sonar Technology
How can modern techniques be used to provide an improved assessment of
the integrity of in-service (and future) sonar?
We are looking for techniques that can lead to improved non-destructive
evaluation over and above current techniques
• Proposals are invited from leading innovators across all sectors
• Proposals should be at proof-of-concept or early demonstration stage
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29. Phase 1
CDE themed competition
Total budget up to £850k (£600k reserved for challenge 1)
Proposals should be up to 9 months
Contracts should be completed by end of April 2015
Successful organisations will be offered help to better understand the research
requirements and strengthen the relevance of your solution to these
requirements
Plus, invited to take part in one or more network events in the last quarter of
2014 and/or the first quarter of 2015
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30. Phase 2
Follow-on research and development programme
Successful organisations will be invited to bid for up to 3 years of additional funding to mature
your solution over the medium-term
• This is the only planned funding opportunity related to challenge 1, this competition is the
single entry point into this technology area
• Total budget for follow-on programme is over £600k per annum
Bids for follow-on funding should be submitted by 19 March 2015
Organisations will be requested to attend an interview at Dstl Portsdown West on 15, 16, or 17
April 2015
Interview will be looking for confirmation that you understand the potential impact of your
solution and the pathway to impact
Plus, that the bid for follow-on funding would mature the solution and lead to a future sonar
advantage that could eventually be exploited by the Royal Navy
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31. Submitting a proposal
The deadline for submitting proposals for all challenges is 1700 on 29 May
2014 using the Centre for Defence Enterprise Portal
The challenge being addressed should be stated in the proposal title
Proposals should focus on explaining the work that would be carried out in
response to this competition
Plus, the expected outcomes from the work and how the outcomes would be
proven or demonstrated
Proposals will be assessed using the MOD PAF (Performance Assessment
Framework)
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32. Centre for Defence Enterprise
Future Sonar
Harnessing discovery and invention for future sonar
advantage
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Technical questions to dstlmaritimeinnovation@dstl.gov.uk
General questions to CDE at cde@dstl.gov.uk

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