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DASA launches deployable frontline protection competition

September 5, 2018

The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) is launching a new competition to find solutions for lightweight rapidly deployable protection for on-foot troops on the front-line through Field Fortifications. The competition will focus on protection from ballistic threats and fragmentation for soldiers on the front line. The protection against blast and directed ...

DASA launching electromagnetic environment competition

Homeland July 24, 2018

The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) has launched a new competition focusing on the contested electromagnetic environment. DASA are looking for ideas from the private sector and academia to help solve how UK Defence could take a radically different approach to conducting operations across or within the increasingly congested and contested ...

Metasurfaces for defence and security competition launched

July 13, 2018

The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) has announced the launch of a new competition on metasurfaces for defence and security. This themed competition is seeking proposals for innovative solutions that will pull ideas from recent breakthroughs in metasurface science into products. The competition is aimed at the private sector and academia who ...

DASA launches new Airport Vehicle Checkpoint Screening competition

July 4, 2018

The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) is launching a new competition on behalf of the Future Aviation Security Solutions programme (FASS) focusing on vehicle checkpoint (VCP) screening at airports. Background This competition is focusing on new solutions to the challenge of vehicle checkpoint (VCP) screening at airports, in order to prevent explosives, ...