The document discusses the Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE), which aims to fund innovative research to enable cost-effective military capabilities. CDE provides two routes for funding - an enduring competition that funds radical ideas with £3 million annually, and themed competitions that focus on specific short-term requirements. Over six years, CDE received over 5,000 proposals, funded 858 of them with £51 million, focusing on opportunities in technology, networking innovators from SMEs and academia, and minimizing participation costs.

1. Centre
Defence
Enterprise
for

2. Centre
Defence
Enterprise
for
Jim Pennycook Head of Operations, CDE

3. Session scope
CDE opportunities
Themed competition briefings
Guest briefings: Project4 Technologies Ltd HMRC R&D tax relief
MOD cyber security model

4. Centre
Defence
Enterprise
for
Andy Nicholson
Head of CDE

5. Military capability
Advantage
Persistent

6. The aim of CDE
Prove the value of innovative, high-risk, high-potential-benefit research to enable development of cost-effective military capability advantage
Defence White Paper – National Security Through Technology Feb 2012

7. The aim of CDE
Technology
Best providers
No barriers

8. Rapid technological change
Defence
Other markets
Utilisation

9. Opportunities
Awareness
Network
Funding

10. Managing innovation
Proof of concept
Development
Innovation
Future capability
CDE
MOD + investors

11. CDE operating principles
Key
Applied
Consistent

12. Engaging innovators
SMEs
Academia
Wider industry

13. Funded opportunities
Fair
Accessible
100% funded

14. Sustained incentive
Guarantee
Support
Feedback

15. Minimise participation costs
Online bids
Contracting
Investment

16. Compliance
Regulated
Transparent
Auditable

17. Intellectual property
Defcon 705
Benevolent
Rights of use

18. Two routes to funding
Enduring
Themed
Not classified

19. Enduring competition
Perpetual
Radical
£3M per year

20. Enduring competition
Challenges
Enduring
Framework

21. Framework
Protection
Lethality
Human performance
Mobility
Lower cost of ownership

22. Framework
Situational awareness
Communication
Data
Power

23. Themed competition
Requirements
Bounded
Specific

24. Themed competition today
Automating cyber defence responses
£1 million total

25. CDE
How has CDE performed?

26. CDE index
5242
Proposals received in 6 years

27. CDE index
858
Proposals funded in 6 years

28. CDE index
£51M
Invested in innovation over 6 years

29. CDE index
17%
Of proposals funded

30. CDE index
44%
Proposals funded with SMEs

31. What next for CDE?
Opportunities
Social capital
Funding

32. Innovation Network events
Advice
Opportunity
Networking

33. 30 September 2014, Glasgow
featuring
‘synthetic biology applications in defence’
and
‘defence medical sciences’
Innovation Network events

34. A successful proposal
Clear
Concise
Evidence based

35. Centre
Defence
Enterprise
for