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MOD offers funding for windfarm mitigation in air defence

Homeland March 6, 2020

The MOD and DASA are offering a share of £2million in funding for innovative windfarm mitigation for UK air defence.

The MOD, the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy, and DASA (Defence and Security Accelerator) are offering a share of £2million in funding for windfarm mitigation innovations in a new competition. The competition is seeking proposals that can provide future offshore windfarm mitigation for UK Air Defence surveillance; including alternative technologies that could fill or remove gaps in radar coverage.

The competition is funded by the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Skills’ (BEIS) Science and Innovation for Climate and Energy (SICE) portfolio; and is undertaken in partnership with the Royal Air Force (RAF), the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), and DASA. A total of up to £2m is available, intended to fund a number of contracts of up to £500k.

DPRTE 2020 Official Event Partner: DASA

DASA will be holding a dial-in briefing session and 1-1 slots to enable potential suppliers to ask questions:

• 26 March 2020 – A dial-in session providing further detail on the problem space and a chance to ask questions in an open forum. If you would like to participate, please register on the Dial-in Eventbrite page.
• 26 March 2020 – A series of 20-minute one-to-one teleconference sessions, giving you the opportunity to ask specific questions. If you would like to participate, please register on the 1-1s Eventbrite page.

The continued development of wind turbine sites has the potential to cause a number of negative effects on civil and military air traffic control and defence. Offshore windfarms, when in the line of sight of radar, have a detrimental effect on the MOD’s primary surveillance radar capability used to deliver a recognised air picture for Air Defence.

Proposals for funding to meet these challenges must be submitted by midday GMT on 17 April 2020 via the DASA submission service. Further guidance on submitting a proposal is available on the DASA website.

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