The Defence and Security Accelerator recently opened two competitions.
One is looking for highly innovative, ambitious proposals using synthetic biology approaches to produce transparent materials for defence and security. Professor Petra Oyston and Professor Bryn James explained what they were looking for:
https://youtu.be/uyKm9sPavek
The other competition is looking for technologies that will reliably generate power for man-portable and robotic and autonomous systems as explained by Dr Alan Groves.
https://youtu.be/v5VWVbQ94n0
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