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Seeking innovation for nuclear decommissioning: funding available

December 14, 2016

Organisations can apply for a share of up to £3 million to develop and demonstrate innovative technologies for nuclear decommissioning. The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), Sellafield Ltd and Innovate UK are to invest up to £3 million in projects that will integrate and demonstrate flexible innovative technologies for the nuclear decommissioning sector. Decommissioning and site remediation ...

CDE themed competition: beyond battery power

November 2, 2016

This Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE) themed competition is looking for proposals for technologies that will reliably generate power for man-portable and robotic and autonomous systems (RAS). These technologies need to be small, lightweight, modular and preferably have a low acoustic and/or infrared signature. CDE are particularly interested in technologies: to improve ...

CDE themed competition: synthetic biology for transparent materials

November 2, 2016

This Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE) themed competition is looking for highly innovative, ambitious proposals using synthetic biology approaches to produce transparent materials for defence and security. There are many military uses for transparent armour. For this competition CDE is interested in new transparent materials that are thinner, lighter and offer better ...

The future of aviation security

October 18, 2016

Innovative organisations can apply for a share of up to £1 million to develop new ways of improving aviation security screening. The Department for Transport and the Home Office are to invest up to £2 million in improving aviation security screening. As the aviation sector continues to grow, the threat to aviation security continues to ...