The Centre for Defence Enterprise holds Innovation Networking Events to brief attendees on upcoming defense technology competitions. This event highlighted two new themed competitions on using multiple drones together ("Many drones make light work") and autonomous assessment of hazardous scenes. It also provided updates on CDE's activities like its enduring competition and past themed competitions that have received over 1,000 proposals and invested £75 million in innovative defense research since 2008.
Introduction to innovation and network event hosted by the Centre for Defence Enterprise. This presentation outlines CDE's role and signposts the future direction of the project.
The document summarizes an innovation network event hosted by the Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE). It discusses CDE's goal of funding innovative, high-risk, high-reward research to develop cost-effective military capabilities. It outlines several of CDE's past themed competitions that provided funding between £1-4 million for topics like open-source big data, persistent surveillance, and synthetic biology. It also notes that over 6738 proposals were received for funding, with 1066 being funded. The document concludes by discussing an upcoming themed competition focused on the future of aviation security that attendees will receive briefings on and have opportunities for confidential meetings about.
The document discusses the Joint Security and Resilience Centre (JSaRC), a new Government and security industry partnership center of excellence located in Cambridge. JSaRC aims to improve collaboration between Government customers and private security suppliers to address issues from both perspectives. It will be jointly funded 50:50 by Government and industry over 4 years and allow greater industry shaping, support for SMEs, and cross-sector collaboration beyond just science and technology. The goal is for JSaRC to serve as a learning environment for both Government and industry secondees through various programs.
This document summarizes an autonomy innovation challenge focused on developing autonomous systems to help assess hazardous scenes. The challenge involves two phases, with the first phase providing up to £1 million in funding for short proof-of-concept projects ending in June 2017. The second phase would fund larger collaborative projects of up to £2 million. The challenge aims to explore how autonomous vehicles or drones could help with tasks like surveying scenes, refining data, mapping hazards, and sampling materials to improve how responders assess situations like chemical attacks. The goal is to determine how autonomy could augment and support human responders.
The document describes a competition run by the UK Ministry of Defence's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) to develop swarming drone technologies. It outlines three technology challenges: 1) developing open modular drone platforms, 2) enabling single operators to manage swarms of 20+ drones, and 3) developing enabling technologies like payloads and sensors. It provides examples of how swarms could support military operations. The competition will fund Phase 1 proof-of-concept projects up to £1 million total. Successful projects will demonstrate their technologies in July 2017 and have the opportunity to bid for Phase 2 funding of up to £2 million.
CDE provides funding opportunities through competitions to support technology innovation in defence and security. It aims to engage innovators from academia and industry, including SMEs, and funds projects from early research through development and commercialization. Since 2008, CDE has funded over 1000 proposals with £72.6 million, with a 17% success rate. Interested parties can get involved by visiting the CDE website or social media channels.
Accelerator Autonomous last mile resupply strategic context - 23 may 2017Heather-Fiona Egan
This document discusses the UK's progress in developing autonomous resupply capabilities for the military. It outlines a coalition challenge with the US to accelerate autonomous technologies for last-mile logistics. The challenge will involve demonstrations of autonomous vehicles and systems to resupply frontline forces. It aims to expedite transition of technologies between partners and inform development of tactics and procedures. A competition is launching to develop prototype autonomous last-mile delivery systems through testing at a 2018 Army experiment. The goal is to harness advances in commercial logistics and demonstrate integrated autonomous resupply capabilities.
The Centre for Defence Enterprise holds Innovation Networking Events to brief attendees on upcoming defense technology competitions. This event highlighted two new themed competitions on using multiple drones together ("Many drones make light work") and autonomous assessment of hazardous scenes. It also provided updates on CDE's activities like its enduring competition and past themed competitions that have received over 1,000 proposals and invested £75 million in innovative defense research since 2008.
Introduction to innovation and network event hosted by the Centre for Defence Enterprise. This presentation outlines CDE's role and signposts the future direction of the project.
The document summarizes an innovation network event hosted by the Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE). It discusses CDE's goal of funding innovative, high-risk, high-reward research to develop cost-effective military capabilities. It outlines several of CDE's past themed competitions that provided funding between £1-4 million for topics like open-source big data, persistent surveillance, and synthetic biology. It also notes that over 6738 proposals were received for funding, with 1066 being funded. The document concludes by discussing an upcoming themed competition focused on the future of aviation security that attendees will receive briefings on and have opportunities for confidential meetings about.
The document discusses the Joint Security and Resilience Centre (JSaRC), a new Government and security industry partnership center of excellence located in Cambridge. JSaRC aims to improve collaboration between Government customers and private security suppliers to address issues from both perspectives. It will be jointly funded 50:50 by Government and industry over 4 years and allow greater industry shaping, support for SMEs, and cross-sector collaboration beyond just science and technology. The goal is for JSaRC to serve as a learning environment for both Government and industry secondees through various programs.
This document summarizes an autonomy innovation challenge focused on developing autonomous systems to help assess hazardous scenes. The challenge involves two phases, with the first phase providing up to £1 million in funding for short proof-of-concept projects ending in June 2017. The second phase would fund larger collaborative projects of up to £2 million. The challenge aims to explore how autonomous vehicles or drones could help with tasks like surveying scenes, refining data, mapping hazards, and sampling materials to improve how responders assess situations like chemical attacks. The goal is to determine how autonomy could augment and support human responders.
The document describes a competition run by the UK Ministry of Defence's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) to develop swarming drone technologies. It outlines three technology challenges: 1) developing open modular drone platforms, 2) enabling single operators to manage swarms of 20+ drones, and 3) developing enabling technologies like payloads and sensors. It provides examples of how swarms could support military operations. The competition will fund Phase 1 proof-of-concept projects up to £1 million total. Successful projects will demonstrate their technologies in July 2017 and have the opportunity to bid for Phase 2 funding of up to £2 million.
CDE provides funding opportunities through competitions to support technology innovation in defence and security. It aims to engage innovators from academia and industry, including SMEs, and funds projects from early research through development and commercialization. Since 2008, CDE has funded over 1000 proposals with £72.6 million, with a 17% success rate. Interested parties can get involved by visiting the CDE website or social media channels.
Accelerator Autonomous last mile resupply strategic context - 23 may 2017Heather-Fiona Egan
This document discusses the UK's progress in developing autonomous resupply capabilities for the military. It outlines a coalition challenge with the US to accelerate autonomous technologies for last-mile logistics. The challenge will involve demonstrations of autonomous vehicles and systems to resupply frontline forces. It aims to expedite transition of technologies between partners and inform development of tactics and procedures. A competition is launching to develop prototype autonomous last-mile delivery systems through testing at a 2018 Army experiment. The goal is to harness advances in commercial logistics and demonstrate integrated autonomous resupply capabilities.
Accelerator Autonomous last mile resupply Challenge overview - 23 May 2017Heather-Fiona Egan
This document discusses the challenges and opportunities around using autonomous systems for last mile resupply to military forces. It outlines the need to reduce risk to personnel and increase efficiency of resupply operations. Current resupply methods are inefficient and dangerous. The document proposes three technology challenges: developing unmanned ground and air logistics platforms, increasing platform autonomy, and creating systems to optimize resupply planning and tracking. Target performance metrics for these systems include ranges of 300m to 30km, payloads of 50kg, rapid turnaround times, and ability to operate in diverse environments requiring high degrees of autonomy.
The document provides information about submitting proposals to the Centre for Defence Enterprise Innovation Network event taking place on June 30th 2016. It outlines the proposal assessment process and criteria, including impact on defence/security, likelihood of exploitation, advancing science/technology, innovation/quality, and technical challenge. The status of submitted proposals will either be in assessment, submitted, funded, or not funded. The event aims to help create great proposals and provides contact details for the CDE Technology Manager and submission website.
This document summarizes an event hosted by the Centre for Defence Enterprise on June 30, 2016. The event included briefings on the CDE's enduring and themed technology competitions, which provide up to £3 million per year and at least £500,000 per competition respectively to develop innovative solutions for military problems. Presentations were given on the "Seeing through the clouds" themed competition focusing on persistent surveillance from the air and how to write successful CDE proposals. Since 2008 the CDE has invested £75 million through its competitions, funding over 1000 projects with a focus on engaging small- and medium-sized enterprises.
The Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE) provides funding for technology innovation projects through competitive funding competitions. CDE aims to engage innovators, provide fully funded opportunities, and minimize costs to participants. Since 2008, CDE has provided over £73 million in total funding through 1050 proposals, with a success rate of 16%. CDE operates on principles of engagement, full funding, and low participation costs to drive technology innovation and commercialization for defence and security applications.
The document introduces the CDE Innovation Network event and provides information about CDE's operating principles and funding competitions. It summarizes CDE's past performance, having funded over 1000 proposals with £72.6 million since 2008. Readers are encouraged to get involved with CDE initiatives by visiting their website, joining mailing lists, or following their social media channels.
The document describes a competition to develop new optical sensing technologies that can see through clouds. It seeks concepts for active techniques like LIDAR that provide enhanced visibility through clouds, as well as passive techniques using novel spectral analysis or image processing. Projects should be at early technology readiness levels of 2-3, with the goal of achieving visibility even when transmission is just 0.02%. The competition involves an initial phase 1 of up to 6 months and £500,000 to develop proofs of concept, with successful projects continuing to a follow-on phase 2 for further development.
Max Lemke, Head of Unit, Components and Systems, European CommissionI4MS_eu
The document discusses regional digital innovation hubs and competence centers. Competence centers are the core of digital innovation hubs and are organized to provide services to industry, including access to infrastructure, technology expertise, experimentation support, product fabrication demonstrations, and best practices. Successful EU actions that the hubs aim to build on include €110M funding for 11 projects, 70 competence centers, and 280 experiments across 29 EU countries and associated nations.
This document provides guidance for submitting a proposal to the Innovation Network event hosted by the CDE Technology Manager on September 22, 2016. It outlines the required sections for an innovation proposal, including details on the idea, relevance to defense and security, work plan, and exploitation potential. It explains the assessment criteria of impact, likelihood of exploitation, advancing science and technology, innovation and quality, and technical challenge. Finally, it offers contact information for questions.
The document provides guidance on creating a proposal for an Innovation Network event hosted by the CDE Technology Manager. It instructs applicants to include details about their innovative idea, its relevance to defense and security, a work plan, and plans for exploitation. Proposals will be assessed on their potential impact, likelihood of exploitation, advancement of science/technology, innovation/quality, and technical challenge. The document ends with reminders and an offer to answer any questions.
The MERIKA Project received €3.95 million in funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme to create a leading Marine Energy research and innovation hub at the University of the Highlands and Islands from 2014 to 2017. The project aims to build capacity through hiring 12 new scientists and upgrading €750k of equipment to strengthen infrastructure for research on tidal, wave and offshore wind energy challenges.
This document summarizes a workshop on identifying potential policy levers in Europe to increase energy and environmental efficiency in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector. The workshop discussed communication levers, economic/financial levers, organizational levers, green procurement levers, and regulatory levers. Participants then evaluated potential actions for each lever, considering the action definition, implementation, impacts, indicators, and challenges. The goals were to identify feasible actions that stakeholders in the ICT sector could implement in Europe to reduce the sector's environmental footprint.
Europe’s leading industry event
• Benefit from project experience and lessons learned on 8 offshore platforms
• Evaluate existing concepts for self-installing substations and debate their practical value
• Gain insight into challenges for electrical equipment in offshore environments
• Evaluate strategies for cost-efficient transport and installation of substations
• Explore O&M concepts and CMS for manned and unmanned offshore platforms
The document discusses the UK's need for affordable space-based capabilities to support military operations. It notes that 90% of UK military capability depends on space assets and outlines national space policy objectives. The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) is seeking proposals for innovative concepts and technologies in space surveillance, secure communications, and platforms/infrastructure to enhance capabilities while lowering costs. Proposals are invited for experimental demonstrations with potential military applications. Successful phase 1 projects will be eligible for additional phase 2 funding to further develop technologies and concepts identified.
The Energy Efficiency Export Initiative is a German government service that aims to promote energy efficient technologies and solutions developed in Germany. It provides information, networking opportunities, and support to help German companies export energy efficiency products and services abroad. The initiative partners with various German ministries and organizations and targets small and medium enterprises, technology suppliers, and service providers working in areas like buildings, industry, transportation and infrastructure to help them transfer German energy efficiency expertise worldwide.
Startup Europe: achievements and outsightIsidro Laso
facvts about the actual impact of Startups Europe as well as a glance of our future programmes. learn all about Startup Europe at www.startupeuropeclub.eu
MERIKA Project Overview @AllEnergy, 21-22 May 2014, Aberdeen ScotlandMERIKA-Project
The MERIKA Project received over 3 million euros in funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme to enhance marine energy research and innovation capacity at the University of the Highlands and Islands over three years. The funding builds research capabilities through staff exchanges with international institutions, equipment upgrades, and networking opportunities to engage in future European research initiatives and collaborate with industry partners.
This document provides information about a competition to develop screening technologies for carry-on bags and hold baggage. It outlines two challenges: 1) developing solutions to screen carry-on bags without removing items from bags, and 2) improving current cargo and hold baggage screening processes. It provides details on proposal requirements, available funding, project timelines and deadlines. Proposals are due by January 19, 2017 and should demonstrate proof-of-concept, offer significant benefits to security, and be completed within 6 months.
This document discusses screening methods and technologies for hold baggage and cargo at airports. It outlines the threat materials that screening aims to detect, which does not include firearms, ammunition, or knives. Various screening methods are described, including canine screening, X-ray systems, explosive detection systems, hand searches, and trace detection. A multi-level screening process is outlined. The document also discusses screening capabilities for cargo, including X-ray, explosive detection systems, hand searches, metal detection, explosive trace detection, and explosive detection dogs. It notes technologies being developed and requirements for improving cargo screening. Important dates for a competition on new screening technologies are provided.
Accelerator Autonomous last mile resupply Challenge overview - 23 May 2017Heather-Fiona Egan
This document discusses the challenges and opportunities around using autonomous systems for last mile resupply to military forces. It outlines the need to reduce risk to personnel and increase efficiency of resupply operations. Current resupply methods are inefficient and dangerous. The document proposes three technology challenges: developing unmanned ground and air logistics platforms, increasing platform autonomy, and creating systems to optimize resupply planning and tracking. Target performance metrics for these systems include ranges of 300m to 30km, payloads of 50kg, rapid turnaround times, and ability to operate in diverse environments requiring high degrees of autonomy.
The document provides information about submitting proposals to the Centre for Defence Enterprise Innovation Network event taking place on June 30th 2016. It outlines the proposal assessment process and criteria, including impact on defence/security, likelihood of exploitation, advancing science/technology, innovation/quality, and technical challenge. The status of submitted proposals will either be in assessment, submitted, funded, or not funded. The event aims to help create great proposals and provides contact details for the CDE Technology Manager and submission website.
This document summarizes an event hosted by the Centre for Defence Enterprise on June 30, 2016. The event included briefings on the CDE's enduring and themed technology competitions, which provide up to £3 million per year and at least £500,000 per competition respectively to develop innovative solutions for military problems. Presentations were given on the "Seeing through the clouds" themed competition focusing on persistent surveillance from the air and how to write successful CDE proposals. Since 2008 the CDE has invested £75 million through its competitions, funding over 1000 projects with a focus on engaging small- and medium-sized enterprises.
The Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE) provides funding for technology innovation projects through competitive funding competitions. CDE aims to engage innovators, provide fully funded opportunities, and minimize costs to participants. Since 2008, CDE has provided over £73 million in total funding through 1050 proposals, with a success rate of 16%. CDE operates on principles of engagement, full funding, and low participation costs to drive technology innovation and commercialization for defence and security applications.
The document introduces the CDE Innovation Network event and provides information about CDE's operating principles and funding competitions. It summarizes CDE's past performance, having funded over 1000 proposals with £72.6 million since 2008. Readers are encouraged to get involved with CDE initiatives by visiting their website, joining mailing lists, or following their social media channels.
The document describes a competition to develop new optical sensing technologies that can see through clouds. It seeks concepts for active techniques like LIDAR that provide enhanced visibility through clouds, as well as passive techniques using novel spectral analysis or image processing. Projects should be at early technology readiness levels of 2-3, with the goal of achieving visibility even when transmission is just 0.02%. The competition involves an initial phase 1 of up to 6 months and £500,000 to develop proofs of concept, with successful projects continuing to a follow-on phase 2 for further development.
Max Lemke, Head of Unit, Components and Systems, European CommissionI4MS_eu
The document discusses regional digital innovation hubs and competence centers. Competence centers are the core of digital innovation hubs and are organized to provide services to industry, including access to infrastructure, technology expertise, experimentation support, product fabrication demonstrations, and best practices. Successful EU actions that the hubs aim to build on include €110M funding for 11 projects, 70 competence centers, and 280 experiments across 29 EU countries and associated nations.
This document provides guidance for submitting a proposal to the Innovation Network event hosted by the CDE Technology Manager on September 22, 2016. It outlines the required sections for an innovation proposal, including details on the idea, relevance to defense and security, work plan, and exploitation potential. It explains the assessment criteria of impact, likelihood of exploitation, advancing science and technology, innovation and quality, and technical challenge. Finally, it offers contact information for questions.
The document provides guidance on creating a proposal for an Innovation Network event hosted by the CDE Technology Manager. It instructs applicants to include details about their innovative idea, its relevance to defense and security, a work plan, and plans for exploitation. Proposals will be assessed on their potential impact, likelihood of exploitation, advancement of science/technology, innovation/quality, and technical challenge. The document ends with reminders and an offer to answer any questions.
The MERIKA Project received €3.95 million in funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme to create a leading Marine Energy research and innovation hub at the University of the Highlands and Islands from 2014 to 2017. The project aims to build capacity through hiring 12 new scientists and upgrading €750k of equipment to strengthen infrastructure for research on tidal, wave and offshore wind energy challenges.
This document summarizes a workshop on identifying potential policy levers in Europe to increase energy and environmental efficiency in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector. The workshop discussed communication levers, economic/financial levers, organizational levers, green procurement levers, and regulatory levers. Participants then evaluated potential actions for each lever, considering the action definition, implementation, impacts, indicators, and challenges. The goals were to identify feasible actions that stakeholders in the ICT sector could implement in Europe to reduce the sector's environmental footprint.
Europe’s leading industry event
• Benefit from project experience and lessons learned on 8 offshore platforms
• Evaluate existing concepts for self-installing substations and debate their practical value
• Gain insight into challenges for electrical equipment in offshore environments
• Evaluate strategies for cost-efficient transport and installation of substations
• Explore O&M concepts and CMS for manned and unmanned offshore platforms
The document discusses the UK's need for affordable space-based capabilities to support military operations. It notes that 90% of UK military capability depends on space assets and outlines national space policy objectives. The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) is seeking proposals for innovative concepts and technologies in space surveillance, secure communications, and platforms/infrastructure to enhance capabilities while lowering costs. Proposals are invited for experimental demonstrations with potential military applications. Successful phase 1 projects will be eligible for additional phase 2 funding to further develop technologies and concepts identified.
The Energy Efficiency Export Initiative is a German government service that aims to promote energy efficient technologies and solutions developed in Germany. It provides information, networking opportunities, and support to help German companies export energy efficiency products and services abroad. The initiative partners with various German ministries and organizations and targets small and medium enterprises, technology suppliers, and service providers working in areas like buildings, industry, transportation and infrastructure to help them transfer German energy efficiency expertise worldwide.
Startup Europe: achievements and outsightIsidro Laso
facvts about the actual impact of Startups Europe as well as a glance of our future programmes. learn all about Startup Europe at www.startupeuropeclub.eu
MERIKA Project Overview @AllEnergy, 21-22 May 2014, Aberdeen ScotlandMERIKA-Project
The MERIKA Project received over 3 million euros in funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme to enhance marine energy research and innovation capacity at the University of the Highlands and Islands over three years. The funding builds research capabilities through staff exchanges with international institutions, equipment upgrades, and networking opportunities to engage in future European research initiatives and collaborate with industry partners.
This document provides information about a competition to develop screening technologies for carry-on bags and hold baggage. It outlines two challenges: 1) developing solutions to screen carry-on bags without removing items from bags, and 2) improving current cargo and hold baggage screening processes. It provides details on proposal requirements, available funding, project timelines and deadlines. Proposals are due by January 19, 2017 and should demonstrate proof-of-concept, offer significant benefits to security, and be completed within 6 months.
This document discusses screening methods and technologies for hold baggage and cargo at airports. It outlines the threat materials that screening aims to detect, which does not include firearms, ammunition, or knives. Various screening methods are described, including canine screening, X-ray systems, explosive detection systems, hand searches, and trace detection. A multi-level screening process is outlined. The document also discusses screening capabilities for cargo, including X-ray, explosive detection systems, hand searches, metal detection, explosive trace detection, and explosive detection dogs. It notes technologies being developed and requirements for improving cargo screening. Important dates for a competition on new screening technologies are provided.
Innovation fund themed competition webinar - session 3Heather-Fiona Egan
This document discusses challenges and opportunities for improving human-machine teaming for military operations. It seeks solutions that:
1) Ensure human cognitive capacity is focused on tasks best suited for humans while automating other tasks
2) Reduce unnecessary burden on human cognition through effective automation
3) Achieve the above through human-machine systems that work seamlessly as a team to avoid issues.
Innovation fund themed competition webinar - session 4Heather-Fiona Egan
The document describes a defense and security accelerator competition with up to £6 million available. It uses a two-track, two-phase structure. The fast track has shorter timelines and higher phase 1 funding, while the standard track allows more development time. Both tracks provide the same level of phase 2 funding. The competition focuses on challenges such as allowing rapid sensor integration, freeing up personnel through machine learning, and effective human-machine teaming. It provides information on the competition structure and timeline, as well as points of contact for technical and general queries.
Innovation fund themed competition webinar - session 2Heather-Fiona Egan
Free up personnel through the application of innovative use of machine learning algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI) for military advantage. The RAF requires solutions to manage, analyze, and exploit multiple information sources at pace to gain decision advantage over exponentially growing data in comparison to constrained human analytic capacity. The RAF is interested in combining human-derived models that exploit domain knowledge with machine-derived models requiring large datasets and machine learning to close the gap between data and human capacity to identify the right information.
Innovation fund themed competition webinar - session 1Heather-Fiona Egan
This document discusses three challenges for a competition around revolutionizing the human-information relationship for defense. Challenge 1 focuses on allowing for the rapid and automated integration of new sensors. It notes the variety of sensor data formats and challenges of multi-sensor processing without prior knowledge. The goal is a common preprocessing and postprocessing approach along with an open architecture algorithm repository to enable integration of diverse sensors.
Seamless: Exceeding expectations on the ground and in the air with NATSNATS
The aviation industry is constantly changing, becoming increasingly complex and demanding innovative answers to air traffic issues. Having a proactive partner in this complex environment is no longer desirable, it’s essential. Whether
you are an airport owner, operator, airline or government, NATS can help you meet these fresh challenges, wherever you are in the world.
The Future of Aerospace – More Software Please!AdaCore
The document discusses the Aerospace Technology Institute's (ATI) role in leading technology development for the UK aerospace sector. It outlines ATI's strategy and funding portfolio worth £3.9 billion to 2026. Specific initiatives discussed include the SECT-AIR and HICLASS projects, which helped establish the UK's excellence in safety critical software. The document also notes opportunities for startups in sustainability and Industry 4.0 technologies through the ATI Boeing Horizon X Accelerator program.
NATS is a global air navigation provider that manages air traffic in the UK and other countries. It aims to be a global leader in air traffic solutions through strategies focused on innovation, partnerships, and developing its people. Key objectives include continuous growth, reducing safety risks and carbon emissions, and improving efficiency. Tactics such as new air traffic control technologies and partnerships help achieve these objectives and support NATS' vision of long-term, sustainable expansion.
KTN, the Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) and ADS organised on Thursday 20th May an online event to showcase the latest EU funding opportunities for the aerospace sector.
Although the UK has left the EU, it is still an Associate Member of Horizon Europe, the EU’s research and innovation programme that will run from 2021 to 2027. This means that UK scientists, researchers and businesses can continue to access funding under the programme on equivalent terms as organisations in EU countries. It is therefore fundamental that the UK innovation community is fully aware of the opportunities that remain open to them.
By coming to this event we aim to:
• Attract UK companies to submit proposals for European funding calls
• Provide clarity to UK organisations on the need and value to participate in EU competitions
• Attract non-aerospace organisations to the competitions
• Create an opportunity for new collaborations and connections
1. The document discusses through-life costs, which are the total costs of owning an aircraft over its lifetime, including acquisition, maintenance, fuel and personnel costs. It notes that customers are increasingly asking manufacturers like Airbus to consider through-life costs in aircraft design.
2. Airbus is taking several initiatives to address through-life costs, such as collaborating on integrated wing and life cycle cost modeling projects. These aim to better evaluate how new technologies impact overall costs.
3. Balancing performance improvements with implementation costs will be important for future designs to meet environmental and resource constraints while remaining affordable over the long run.
Malaysian Aerospace Industry Blueprint 2030Lynn Aziz
The document outlines Malaysia's Blueprint 2030 plan to develop the country's aerospace industry. It summarizes the current status of the industry and key achievements. It then lays out the vision, objectives, and strategies to transform the industry by 2030, including increasing participation in aircraft design and manufacturing, investing in research and technology, improving regulations, attracting investment, and developing workforce skills. The strategies aim to make Malaysia a technology leader in aerospace and increase the industry's contribution to the high-income economy.
This corporate presentation provides an overview of NLR, a global player in aerospace research with Dutch roots. NLR has over 95 years of experience and 632 employees working to make transport safer, more sustainable and efficient. It highlights NLR's facilities, areas of expertise, projects, and role in supporting the Dutch and European aerospace sectors and improving aviation safety, environment, and efficiency.
Aerospace Technology Institute Programme: R&D Support for Smaller BusinessKTN
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), through the Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) and Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, will invest in research and technology projects. This is to deliver world leading aerospace technologies in the UK.
The competition opens on 25th November 2019 to support and encourage industrial investment into the aerospace sector and its supply chain, through the support of innovative and high impact projects. These projects will demonstrate forward-looking and disruptive solutions to UK civil aerospace challenges.
Find out more: https://ktn-uk.co.uk/news/webcast-aerospace-technology-institute-programme-rd-support-for-smaller-business
The document discusses the vision for aerospace education in 2020. It outlines challenges in innovation and education in aerospace to develop the knowledge and skills students need. Major themes include making aviation more sustainable and efficient through strategic research agendas and projects. Education must prepare students to understand the complex air transport system and develop deep disciplinary expertise combined with strong collaboration and communication skills.
UK Shipbuilding Enterprise_Storyboard Aide Memoire Notebook.pdfIan Ure
This notebook unpacks and explains all the architectural thinking that surfaced during collaborative workshop activity.
Disclaimer:
The content within this notebook was collaboratively produced prior to March 2021. Please note that some of the captured thinking has evolved, with some content being out of date.
The content within this notebook represents the thinking that surfaced during exploratory discussion carried out over a series of design workshops by the MEWG.
The MEWG is a joint cross-government, industry & academia forum established to progress the UK National Shipbuilding Strategy.
The content within this document was intended to support follow-on discussion & engagement. It should not be regarded as a commitment from any individual or party.
Partilho um artigo muito interessante sobre o aeroporto de Gatwick . Single Runway com 40 milhões de paxs em 2015 .
E outro sobre o conceito I-Drop no aeroporto de Hamburgo.
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This document provides an overview of the Simplifying the Business (StB) program, which aims to transform the air travel industry through innovative initiatives that benefit customers. StB has delivered projects like electronic tickets and mobile boarding passes. It takes new ideas from its Think Tank and works to implement them industry-wide through standards development, pilots and collaboration across stakeholders. Current focus areas outlined in the document include empowering airline retailing, providing real-time customer information, and creating a seamless passenger experience through initiatives like New Distribution Capability, identity management, and optimizing airport processes.
The document discusses economic analysis of solar photovoltaic power generation based on life-cycle costing. It establishes a cost model for solar PV power that considers initial investment costs, annual operation and maintenance costs, loan interest costs, return on capital costs, and annual power generation capacity. A sensitivity analysis method is used to quantitatively analyze how changes to crucial factors like PV module prices and annual sunlight hours impact the overall cost of solar PV power generation. The goal is to better understand the economic efficiency of solar PV and identify key cost factors to help guide government policies and industry development.
10 Most Trusted Aviation Solution Providers, 2022 November2022.pdfInsightsSuccess4
This edition features a handful of business Aviation Solution Providers across several sectors that are at the forefront of leading us into a digital future
Read More: https://insightssuccess.com/10-most-trusted-aviation-solution-providers-2022-november2022/
WheelTug PLC
What they do:
WheelTug develops and manufactures electric aircraft taxiing systems. Their flagship product is an in-wheel system installed on the nose wheels of aircraft.
The problem they solve: Traditional aircraft taxiing (moving on the ground between gate and runway) often requires pushback tugs or the use of the aircraft's main engines. This is inefficient, costly, and increases emissions.
How it works:
WheelTug's system uses electric motors powered by the plane's auxiliary power unit (APU) to enable aircraft to maneuver on the ground independently.
Benefits:
* Saves time during aircraft turnaround
* Reduces fuel burn and emissions
* Reduces noise pollution around airports
* Increases potential aircraft utilization
* Potentially improves safety by reducing the need for external vehicles
ATP_PBL1_introduction of air transport policyEzzy Izzuddin
The document discusses air transport policy and its objectives to protect human health, the environment, and ensure economic growth and safety in the global aviation industry. It examines where policy is implemented, such as for political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental issues. It also discusses when policy is established, who is responsible, and how decisions are made to address aviation issues. Specific examples of current issues are provided relating to each area for analysis under the policy. The overall aim of air transport policy is to regulate the industry to avoid accidents and environmental harm while supporting its continued operation.
IATA is led by Tony Tyler and follows a structure of "Global Development, Regional Delivery". It has divisions that develop global standards and systems at the Head Office while regional offices implement them. IATA's vision is to be the force for value creation and innovation driving a safe, secure and profitable air transport industry. It represents airlines, improves understanding of the industry, and develops global commercial standards. IATA's priorities include increasing e-AWB penetration, reducing costs, and improving reliability of the Industry Settlement System.
The Department for International Trade helps UK businesses export, especially in the defense, security, and cybersecurity sectors. It works with these industries and other government departments to promote UK capabilities abroad, build relationships with overseas buyers, and support key export opportunities. The DIT also led a strategy exercise with industry to define how the UK government will support the security sector in exporting from 2019-2024. This new strategy focuses on using all of the UK government's capabilities to help companies export in a collaborative way.
The document summarizes research and development efforts in the UK fire service. It describes the national structure which includes a national lead, regional leads across 11 regions, and support from 50 UK fire and rescue services. It works closely with various partners from government, industry, academia, and other emergency services. The approach covers fundamental, industrial, and capability development research. Key partners include various government defense and security organizations, universities, the fire industry association, and international partners through IFAFRI. It conducts surveys to identify emerging research needs and aims to map out fire and rescue related research. Future plans include more horizon scanning, capability analysis, and challenges to access science and technology assets.
The document discusses experiences working with DASA (Defense Aviation Security Agency) and outlines their vision for future aviation security solutions. The vision is to deliver transformational change in aviation security through innovative science and technology, improving ability to prevent terrorist attacks on planes while enhancing passenger experience and benefitting the aviation industry.
DASA Innovation Partner, Tony Collins, discusses International Outreach.
DASA Senior Exploitation Manager, Eleanor Rice, discusses exploitation of innovation.
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This document summarizes a presentation given to the Defence and Security Accelerator about Blue Bear's journey working with the Accelerator. The presentation discusses Blue Bear's project on open architectures for air-land interoperability and last mile resupply. It proposes a 6-month project to demonstrate autonomous airborne resupply for soldiers using unmanned aerial vehicles and open software architectures. It then outlines Blue Bear and its partners' experience working with the Accelerator, emphasizing the importance of attending launch events, engaging with stakeholders, and clearly writing proposals that solve problems and clarify exploitation pathways.
This document discusses challenges and opportunities in defense innovation. It outlines many technology areas that could be improved, such as robotics, autonomy, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence. It also summarizes recent defense innovation competitions and their results. The document encourages collaboration between government, academia and industry to address defense problems through innovative solutions.
The document provides guidance on creating proposals for the Defence and Security Accelerator Innovation network event. It outlines that proposals should include details about the innovation idea, its relevance to defence and security, a proposed work plan, and exploitation strategy. It notes that technology readiness levels will be used to measure maturity. The document also describes the assessment criteria for proposals, which includes impact, likelihood of exploitation, advancing innovation, quality, and level of challenge.
The Defence and Security Accelerator is an innovation network established in 2016 to find and exploit innovations that support UK defence and security. It provides multiple entry points for innovators, including open calls and themed competitions. It offers a simple application process, funding for successful proposals, and support to help bring ideas to UK defence and security customers. Recent themed competitions have focused on areas like autonomous resupply, human-information relationships, battery power alternatives, and aviation security.
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The document discusses challenges with rapidly integrating new sensors for military use. It describes how sensors currently have different data formats and standards, making integration difficult. It proposes developing common preprocessing and postprocessing functions, as well as an open architecture algorithm repository, to allow automated integration and fusion of data from various sensors. This would help overcome issues around scalability and real-time performance when exploiting sensor data for military operations.
This document discusses potential applications of synthetic biology for developing novel transparent materials and adhesives/interlayer materials. It notes that new materials could help address issues like moisture degradation, delamination, and reducing costs. The document outlines challenges with current materials and desirable properties for new solutions. It provides details on a competition seeking proposals for using synthetic biology to create novel transparent materials or adhesives/interlayers, noting what is and isn't desired in submissions. Overall the document scopes opportunities for synthetic biology to enhance transparent materials for defense applications.
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The document discusses the limitations of battery power for small autonomous robots and soldiers. While smaller robots are safer and more practical for defense applications, current battery technology only allows for an hour or two of operation, which is not enough. Batteries are also limited in their energy density and unlikely to improve much in the next 10-20 years. The document proposes potential alternative power solutions that could be explored, such as photovoltaic energy capture from flames, novel engine/generator combinations, or single-use power sources that last a day or two before recycling. It concludes that long-endurance power sources for smaller robots present an opportunity for defense applications if technical challenges can be addressed.
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An introduction to the themed competition and an overview of how it would be applied in a military setting. Presentation first shown on 1 December 2016.
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1. The future of aviation security
A Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE) themed competition run on behalf of the
Home Office and Department for Transport (DfT)
Innovation Network Event 17 November 2016
2. The future of aviation security
OFFICIAL
Programme overview
Competition briefing
Technology challenges
Exploitation
Questions and answers
Innovation in aviation
3. Programme overview
• why?
• what?
• who?
• how?
OFFICIAL
This competition seeks to make a positive impact on the
government’s priority to create a safer, more secure and
sustainable transport system for all
5. OFFICIAL
The UK’s Future Aviation Security Solutions (FASS)
Programme will deliver a step change in aviation
security through innovative science and technology.
It will improve our ability to prevent terrorist attacks on
aviation and have a positive impact on the aviation
industry and passenger experience
What? Our Vision
6. Joint Home Office and Department for Transport programme
with an innovative approach to delivery
Will leverage latest innovation architectures including:
• Defence and Security Accelerator
• Joint Security and Resilience Centre
OFFICIAL
Who?
7. Working in partnership with both the aviation industry, and the
supply-side to deliver benefits to the Government, the aviation
industry and to the passenger, while promoting the innovative
technologies that you develop
Plans to work with other international initiatives
OFFICIAL
Who?
8. OFFICIAL
How? Initial workstreams
Innovative technologies and approaches
• investment in new/innovative technology
• systems-level concepts/approaches
Quicker routes to market
• new opportunities for test and demonstration
Thanks to CDE; (centre for defence enterprise)
Introduce yourself;
Before you hear about the call itself, what I would like to do is situate it in the wider context of the Future Aviation Security Solutions - known as FASS - research programme, so you can see what your work will be contributing towards;
And I will hopefully be able to give you a better insight into the FASS programme as a whole:
Why the FASS programme exists;
What it is focused on;
Who is involved;
Our FASS team Leader will then explain in a little more detail How we plan to go about delivering it
FASS was formed from the 2015 SDSR (Strategic defence and security review) commitment to doubling spend on aviation security;
What is SDSR? Sets out the government’s National Security Strategy for the coming 5 years, and how it will be implemented.
Part of the 2015 SDSR commitment was to invest in innovative science & technology and research & development;
Important event last month in the unanimous vote on the UN Security Council Resolution on Aviation security – this sets out the context well:
That terrorists are actively seeking ways to defeat or circumvent aviation security;
That States should maximise the promotion of new technologies and innovative techniques.
There couldn’t be a stronger mandate for change and a good platform for staring this
*Emphasise main points in vision*
About preventing weapons, explosives and other threats from getting on to an aircraft in any way possible. Including:
Hand luggage
Hold luggage
On a person
Cargo
In flight supplies
Fuel etc
I can not stress enough how interested we are in your ideas
And finally Who?
Point 1 - This programme is an innovative approach to delivery – joint Departmental team in DFT TSCOR and HO OSCT
Point 2 - The Defence and Security Accelerator – which is what the CDE has begun its transition into; and
Joint Security and Resilience Centre (JSARC)
Point 3 - We will work in partnership with both the Aviation Industry, and the supply-side to deliver benefits to the Government, the Aviation industry and to the passenger, while promoting the innovative technologies that you develop
Point 4 – And we have plans in place to work with other International initiatives such as US Screening at Speed and IATA/ACI Smart Security
We strive to work seamlessly across the different organisations responsible for the UK’s response to the threat to aviation, and the range of organisations collaborating on this initiative reflects that. Today we hope you will see this programme represents a unique opportunity to progress towards the future of detection and screening in aviation security.
There are a number of representatives from the collaborating departments here today, and we encourage you to engage and make maximum use of them today as you will rarely find the operational, technical and policy experts in this area in one room together! So if you get to a point today where you feel like you are not getting new or needed information, please do approach them.
I also feel very encouraged to see representation from so many different potential providers of innovative solutions from different sectors – please do make use of the breaks to meet one another, discuss the issues, and make informal and formal partnerships.
I hope you enjoy the day and will learn something new that will spark off some creative new solutions to the challenges we will present to you.
I would now like to introduce FASS Team Leader who will describe how this is going to all be delivered.
T-TRIG & CDE call
“blank sheet of paper” approach
Identify opportunities, constraints and technologies
Getting products in front of potential procurers (UK and export) earlier in their development.
I would now like to introduce Director for SIE, who will describe how…