The Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE) aims to fund innovative, high-risk research projects to develop cost-effective military capabilities. Over seven years, CDE received over 5,600 proposals, funded 931 of them totaling £57 million in investment. CDE seeks proposals from small- and medium-sized enterprises, academia, and wider industry through two routes: enduring competitions with £3 million annual funding and themed competitions focused on specific requirements. CDE operates under principles of applying innovation to develop future military capabilities through partnerships between government, industry, and investors.

1. Centre
Defence
Enterprise
for
24 June 2015
Innovation Network

2. Centre
Defence
Enterprise
for
Andy Nicholson
Head of CDE

3. Military capability
Advantage
Persistent

4. 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

5. The aim of CDE
Technology
Best providers
No barriers

6. Rapid technological change
Defence
Other markets
Utilisation

7. Opportunities
Awareness
Network
Funding

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

9. CDE operating principles
Key
Applied
Consistent

10. Engaging innovators
SMEs
Academia
Wider industry

11. Funded opportunities
Fair
Accessible
100% funded

12. Sustained incentive
Guarantee
Support
Feedback

13. Minimise participation costs
Online bids
Contracting
Investment

14. Compliance
Regulated
Transparent
Auditable

15. Compliance
Cyber security
framework

16. Intellectual property
Defcon 705
Benevolent
Rights of use

17. Two routes to funding
Enduring
Themed
Not classified

18. Enduring competition
Perpetual
Radical
£3 million per
year

19. Enduring competition
Challenges
Enduring
Framework

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

21. Framework
Situational awareness
Communication
Data
Power

22. Themed competition
Requirements
Bounded
Specific

23. Themed competition today
Open-source big data
insight £250k phase 1

24. CDE
How has CDE performed?

25. CDE index
5621
Proposals received in 7 years

26. CDE index
931
Proposals funded in 7 years

27. CDE index
£57M
Invested in innovation over 7 years

28. CDE index
18%
Of proposals funded

29. CDE index
43%
Proposals funded with SMEs

30. What next for CDE?
Opportunities
Social capital
Funding

31. Innovation Network events
Advice
Opportunity
Networking

32. Innovation Network events
8 July 2015
persistent surveillance and training (with
UK Defence Solutions Centre )
9 July 2015
understanding cyberspace and what’s
inside that building?

33. A successful proposal
Clear
Concise
Evidence based

34. www.gov.uk/dstl/cde