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Defence and Security Accelerator funded contracts: 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2021
Updated 18 October 2023
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1. Covid-19 Cycles
Find out more about the COVID-19 Call
| Organisation and type | Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title | Contract value | Cycle |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Web Services (Large) | ACC2013769: Collaborative Working Environment (CWE) | £131,030.00 | 1 |
| Swansea University (Academia) | ACC2014616: IFA019 - Ozone for rapid sanitising of ambulances and other contaminated environments in response to COVID-19 | £148,066.00 | 1 |
| Hygiene Pro Clean Ltd (Micro SME) | ACC2014620: Hygiene Pro Clean Ltd - Rapid Sanitisation with Atomisation | £38,482.00 | 1 |
| Bioquell UK Ltd (SME) | ACC2014666: Rapid Bio Decontamination of Ambulances | £1,500.00 | 1 |
| Inivos Ltd (SME) | ACC2014670: Rapid Sanitising Technology for Ambulances | £27,749.00 | 1 |
| GreenTeck Global Ltd (Micro SME) | ACC2014680: Hand held on demand ozone spray and electrolysed water dry fog | £84,623.00 | 1 |
| Pritchard Spray Technology Ltd (Micro SME) | ACC2014716: Rapid Disinfection | £3,000.00 | 1 |
| Amarna Ltd (Micro SME) | ACC2014867: History-based benchmarking and impact assessment for Covid-19 and beyond | £17,850.00 | 1 |
| Decontamination Services Ltd (Micro SME) | ACC2014874: Phileas Automated Room/Vehicle Decontamination Systems | £4,280.00 | 1 |
| Tower Supplies (SME) | ACC2015032: Clinical Decontamination Canister - Tower Supplies | £349.32 | 1 |
| Smart Separations Ltd (SME) | ACC2015073: Novel respirator filtration system with antiviral and antibacterial activity | £70,500.00 | 1 |
| EME (Electronic and Mechanical Engineering) Ltd (SME) | ACC2015161: The Removal of Bacteria and Viruses such as Covid-19 from Ambulances Within 10 Minutes Using Ozone | £4,700.00 | 1 |
| AgPlus Diagnostics Limited (SME) | ACC2015438: Reader, sensor and software development for rapid COVID 19 assays | £183,604.70 | 2 |
| BG Research Ltd (Micro SME) | ACC2015512: Portable direct molecular detection of COVID-19 from nasal swabs at the point-of-need | £140,784.00 | 2 |
| Imperial College of London (Academia) | ACC2015551: PanSurg Mixed Reality Defence For Covid-19 | £52,958.00 | 2 |
| University College London (Academia) | ACC2015612: Novel Triage Assistance System (TAS) | £4,489.00 | 2 |
| Unai Ltd (SME) | ACC2015665: Real-Time Disinformation Detection, Analytics and Response Platform - DIDAR - to Tackle Covid-19 Disinformation at a Population Level | £225,000.00 | 2 |
| Northumbria University (Academia) | ACC2016173: Superhydrophobic antiviral coatings | £99,342.41 | 4 |
| London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (Academia) | ACC2016384: Mathematical modelling to identify optimal COVID-19 vaccine dose | £35,678.70 | 4 |
2. Open Call for Innovation Competition
Find out more about the Open Call for Innovation Competition
2.1 Open Call - Emerging Innovations
| Organisation and type | Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title | Contract value | Cycle |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frazer-Nash Consultancy (Large) | ACC2015724: Inflatable Fixed Wing UAS | £129,902.50 | 1 |
| Antennas Research Ltd (Micro SME) | ACC2015860: Low cost ‘3D’ radar | £65,000.00 | 1 |
| University of Hertfordshire (Academia) | ACC2016004: BioAerosol to Droplet Collector | £99,901.07 | 1 |
| Smiths Detection Watford Ltd (Large) | ACC2016626: High efficiency ionisation reactor for the sensitive detection of explosive vapours using Ion Mobility Spectrometry | £123,780.00 | 1 |
| Swanbarton Limited (SME) | ACC2016840: Military Microgrid | £130,364.40 | 1 |
| University of Hertfordshire (Academia) | ACC2016891: All-in-One Biosampling Cyclone with DNA amplification (abc-DNA) | £97,659.90 | 1 |
| Advai (Micro SME) | ACC2017213: Adversarial AI/ML Attack and Defence Methodologies | £184,832.10 | 2 |
| Telicent (Micro SME) | ACC2017548: 4D Pattern of Life Analysis | £87,650.00 | 2 |
| University of St Andrews (Academia) | ACC2017818: Wargames and Decision Making: why and how does diversity matter? | £100,878.88 | 2 |
| Xenint Ltd (SME) | ACC2018222: Body Worn Passive Disruption Capabilty to Defeat RF/Microwave/Millimetre Wave Based IED’s | £99,426.00 | 2 |
| Fraunhofer UK Research Ltd (SME) | ACC2016880: New mid-IR laser materials for IR countermeasures and rangefinders in poor visibility | £149,687.06 | 1 |
| PhoenixC4i Ltd (Micro SME) | ACC2018209: EW Deception - SPARTACUS | £48,800.00 | 2 |
| Aston University (Academia) | ACC2018396: A laser source detection and characterisation system | £91,426.00 | 3 |
| Xenint Ltd (SME) | ACC2019637: High Endurance, Low Intercept, Covert Locating | £99,333.00 | 3 |
| Smiths Detection Watford Ltd (Large) | ACC2019673: Two novel techniques to enhance the performance of IMS based chemical detectors for future development and existing systems | £68,175.00 | 3 |
| University of Warwick (Academia) | ACC2019694: Clearly Armour - Development of Transparent Armour based on High Strength Polyethylene Films | £87,747.19 | 3 |
| AstraNavigation (Micro SME) | ACC2019695: Magnetic Navigation - An Alternative to GPS | £151,090.00 | 3 |
| Plextek Services Limited (SME) | ACC2020073: Underwater Beacon | £117,400.00 | 4 |
| Saleria (Micro SME) | ACC2020569: Container for battery fires and suspicious devices in aviation settings. | £68,670.00 | 4 |
| Inference AI Limited (Micro SME) | ACC2020613: Development of an Innovative Cognitive Search Framework | £99,520.00 | 4 |
| Swansea University (Academia) | ACC2020631: Abundant Spectrum (0.6 GHz - 42 GHz) 5G Antenna Array based Defence Communications with AI control | £84,000.00 | 4 |
| Alloyed (SME) | ACC2020830: Rapid Discovery of Reactive Materials (RaDiReM) | £246,131.40 | 4 |
| National Physical Laboratory (Government Entity) | ACC2020867: Exploiting atomic co-magnetometry | £149,997.00 | 4 |
| Mass Spec Analytical (SME) | ACC2015766: Next Generation Desktop Explosives Detector | £148,471.00 | 1 |
| Loughborough University (Academia) | ACC2016806: Electromagnetic penetration of thick metallic shields | £117,019.30 | 1 |
| Maverick Aviation Ltd (Micro SME) | ACC2016982: Maverick semi-autonomous Individual Air Mobility System - Jet Pack | £68,777.00 | 2 |
| BMT Defence and Security UK Limited (Large) | ACC2018223: SLAMBELT (Support for the Lumbar and Abdomen as Mitigation in fast Boats Extreme or Long Transits) | £141,424.92 | 2 |
| University of Lancaster (Academia) | ACC2019189: Towards 3D printing medical devices in vivo | £96,549.93 | 3 |
| Oxford HighQ Ltd (Micro SME) | ACC2020865: Optical-Microcavity-Enhanced Immunoassays for Reduced-Burden Area Biosurveillance | £87,848.77 | 4 |
| Fraunhofer UK Research Ltd (SME) | ACC2021156: High-performance and low-SWaP frequency combs for portable optical clock applications | £113,305.50 | 5 |
| ColdQuanta UK (Micro SME) | ACC2021635: E-TECQ: Enhanced Testing of the Environmental Capabilities of Quantum | £140,937.38 | 5 |
| Kelvin Nanotechnology Limited (Large) | ACC2021676: An elongated chip-scale atomic vapour cell for PNT technologies | £119,841.61 | 5 |
| University of Strathclyde (Academia) | ACC2022261: Photonic Spiking Neural Networks for ultrafast detection and tracking | £175,890.60 | 6 |
| CGI IT UK Ltd (Large) | ACC2022973: Agile C2 Decision Support | £349,823.00 | 6 |
| Teledyne UK Limited (Large) | ACC2021398: High Stability Atomic Reference - HISTAR | £145,884.00 | 5 |
| Royal Holloway University (Academia) | ACC2022444: Automated Bias Controller for Defence (ABC4D) | £98,917.00 | 6 |
| Leading Technology Developments Ltd (SME) | ACC2019697: HEDS Count - High Energy Density Supercapacitors | £ 96,285.00 | 3 |
| University of Birmingham (Academia) | ACC2021116: Enhancing Reliability under Rotation for Gravity Gradiometery Augmented Navigation | £ 137,415.11 | 5 |
| University of Birmingham (Academia) | ACC2021691: Alternative navigation with quantum gravity gradiometry | £ 136,487.42 | 5 |
| DRisQ Ltd (Micro SME) | ACC2021613: In Silico AI | £95,438.00 | 5 |
| PA Consulting (Large) | ACC2021674: IFA021 - Quantum Computing to increase operational tempo (P055246) | £ 140,469.00 | 5 |
2.2 Open Call - Rapid Impact
| Organisation and type | Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title | Contract value | Cycle |
|---|---|---|---|
| PA Consulting (Large) | ACC2016189: Development of a highly secure, low-cost 10 Gbit/s data diode (P051497) | £282,000.00 | 1 |
| Gilo Adventure Sport Ltd (SME) | ACC2016213: Flexwing personnel infiltration-exfiltration system with low acoustic signature | £130,805.00 | 1 |
| Xenint Ltd (SME) | ACC2016765: Novel Non-Linear Remote Detection Capability for RCIED’s in a High EM Environment | £347,209.00 | 1 |
| AVoptics Ltd (SME) | ACC2016802: Optical retroreflector integration for low-SWaP, high-performance optical communications | £327,250.00 | 1 |
| Sentinel Photonics Ltd (Micro SME) | ACC2016870: Novel, low cost, flexible camera based laser detection | £149,915.80 | 1 |
| VRAI (SME) | ACC2016887: Immersive Data-Driven Airmanship Simulator (iDAS) | £348,475.00 | 1 |
| National Oceanography Centre (Academia) | ACC2016927: Sea-ice thickness and mechanical properties from a broadband sonar mounted on a long-range AUV | £219,460.91 | 1 |
| Selby Piper Limited (Micro SME) | ACC2016959: Stealth unmanned surface effect vehicle | £254,835.38 | 2 |
| Cervus Defence (Micro SME) | ACC2017201: Smart-Shooter Intelligent Enhancement Trainer (SiET) | £335,826.17 | 2 |
| IQHQ (SME) | ACC2017843: Future High Frequency Communications | £266,800.00 | 2 |
| University of St Andrews (Academia) | ACC2016905: Conformable metasurfaces for banknote security applications | £334,435.34 | 1 |
| Sentinel Photonics Ltd (Micro SME) | ACC2018122: Cost effective novel camera based laser range finder and laser target designator detector | £82,701.30 | 2 |
| Teledyne e2v UK Ltd (Large) | ACC2018163: Fieldable Atomic Clock | £342,949.40 | 2 |
| Witt Limited (Micro SME) | ACC2019562: Autonomous Subsea Energy Generation | £349,900.00 | 3 |
| DIEM Innovations Ltd (Micro SME) | ACC2019676: DUCHESS Phase 3 - intelligent interviewbot | £134,904.00 | 3 |
| Teledyne e2v (Large) | ACC2019678: Development of Next-Generation UK Sovereign T2SL Monocular Surveillance System With Built-in ALPD - Phase 1 | £811,627.04 | 3 |
| Hexr (Micro SME) | ACC2019702: Rapid Impact - Custom Fit Special Operators Helmet | £60,850.00 | 3 |
| SatixFy UK Ltd (Micro SME) | ACC2019725: Ultra Small Satcom Flat Antenna | £367,430.28 | 4 |
| Cryogenx (Micro SME) | ACC2019987: Portable body cooling device for on-site treatment of exertional heat illness | £225,266.05 | 4 |
| University of Sussex (Academia) | ACC2020593: Control of High Energy Density Generator | £46,796.00 | 4 |
| Steller Systems Ltd (SME) | ACC2021618: WRAITH Phase 4: Development of Two Dual-Mode Autonomous & Collaborative Naval Demonstrators | £541,984.90 | 5 |
| FlareBright Ltd (SME) | ACC2021675: Persistent Autonomous Drone in GNSS denied Environments | £425,391.00 | 5 |
| Intelligent Energy (SME) | ACC2018051: Development of a next generation product of a world-leading PEM Fuel Cell targeting defence requiremnts | £249,651.59 | 2 |
| Lucideon Limited (SME) | ACC2018412: Technical Development, Evaluation and Optimisation of Gadolinium Lutetium Oxide (GLO) Scintillators for X-ray Imaging | £349,256.00 | 3 |
| Thornton Tomasetti Defence Ltd (SME) | ACC2018443: Agent Based Modelling Simulation Environment for Public Response to Active Shooter Scenarios in Transportation Hubs | £334,469.00 | 3 |
| Sentinel Photonics Ltd (Micro SME) | ACC2019224: Filters for Reducing Optical Signature Thresholds (FROST) | £65,172.00 | 3 |
| Kromek (SME) | ACC2020576: Automated Monitoring for Airborne Pathogens | £349,054.00 | 4 |
| Meta Mission Data (SME) | ACC2020993: Development of a Track Analytics System to identify and alert on defined patterns of behaviour reported by naval vessels within maritime surveillance data. | £241,195.00 | 5 |
| University of Strathclyde (Academia) | ACC2021631: Ultra-compact cold-atom platform for applications in PNT | £156,820.30 | 5 |
| Advai (Micro SME) | ACC2021900: A Prototype System For Robust and Secure AI | £357,955.00 | 6 |
| MSM Systems Ltd (Micro SME) | ACC2021922: IFA020 Integrate all Domains | £144,160.00 | 6 |
| Saab Technologies UK Ltd (Large) | ACC2021995: ES Payload for Drones | £349,450.00 | 6 |
| PA Consulting (Large) | ACC2022815: Detection of cellular controlled drones by analysing network data usage | £179,664.00 | 6 |
| University of Bath (Academia) | ACC2022928: Rapid, Low-Cost Measurement of Structural Acoustic Signatures from Underwater Targets | £284,773.55 | 6 |
| Bright Structures (EasiBridge) Ltd. (Micro SME) | ACC2022992: EasiBridge: New Urban Toolkit - “Bridge-in-a-Bag” | £140,000.00 | 6 |
| Telicent (Micro SME) | ACC2023046: Data Standards Based Rapid Integration Platform (IFA020) | £347,500.00 | 6 |
| Marine Tech Systems (Micro SME) | ACC2023048: Long Endurance Autonomous Lander Vehicle | £408,500.00 | 6 |
| Spire Global UK (SME) | ACC2023073: RF signals Detection and Geolocation from Multiple Satellites in Spire’s LEO Nanosatellite Constellation | £784,187.50 | 6 |
| Cognite Neurotechnology Ltd (Micro SME) | ACC2022956: Personalised neurostimulation to maximise cognitive performance | £ 205,312.28 | 6 |
| Steller Systems Ltd (SME) | ACC2020601: An Inflatable Damage Control System (IDaCS) for Naval Vessels | £ 195,841.20 | 4 |
3. Map the gap - Autonomous Gap Crossing Survey Phase 1
| Organisation and type | Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| Scytronix Ltd (Micro SME) | ACC6014289: Drone mounted near field RF radar for river and ground survey | £251,900.00 |
| Foundry Cube (Micro SME) | ACC6014290: Gap Crosser RE | £177,789.00 |
| Wight Ocean Ltd (Micro SME) | ACC6014347: Map the Gap: An Amphibious & Autonomous bottom crawler approach to crossing surveys | £309,281.85 |
| Nordic Unmanned AS (SME) | ACC6014511: Nordic Unmanned - A Proposal for the Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) Competition Challenge - Map the Gap | £272,656.18 |
| Digital Concepts Engineering Ltd (Micro SME) | ACC6014534: Project Kharon | £331,133.00 |
4. Map the gap - Autonomous Gap Crossing Survey Phase 2
| Organisation and type | Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| Digital Concepts Engineering Ltd (Micro SME) | ACC6021943: Project Kharon Phase 2 | £982,791.84 |
| Ultrabeam Limited (SME) | ACC6021952: Argonaut 2 Wide Wet Gap Surveyor | £498,075.00 |
| ISS Aerospace (SME) | ACC6021965: Map the Gap Phase 2 | £514,727.00 |
5. Windfarm Mitigation for UK Air Defence Phase 1
| Organisation and type | Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| Saab Technologies UK Ltd (Large) | ACC6015172: WindFarm Radar mitigation through AI and advanced Doppler filtering | £448,802.97 |
| Thales UK Ltd (Large) | ACC6015628: Multistatic Radar for Windfarm Mitigation | £438,981.52 |
| QinetiQ Limited (Large) | ACC6015725: Coded metamaterials and radar processing for mitigating the Radio Frequency effects of offshore wind turbines on surveillance radars | £301,190.00 |
| TWI Limited (Large) | ACC6015731: Manufacturing methods for metasurfaces | £259,213.00 |
| Plextek Services Limited (SME) | ACC6015738: Removal of Wind Farm Induced Artefacts on Primary Radar using Deep Learning techniques | £190,787.50 |
| QinetiQ Limited (Large) | ACC6015747: L-band Radar Absorbing Materials for stealth wind turbines | £325,637.00 |
6. Countering Drones Phase 2
| Organisation and type | Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| L-3 Communications ASA Ltd (SME) | ACC6016940: Enhanced multi-sensor detection of autonomous sUAS using unintentional RF emissions | £349,034.54 |
| Thales UK Ltd (Large) | ACC6017212: Detect, Classify and Defeat UAVs Utilising Low SWaP Reactive Electronic Counter Measures | £349,434.00 |
| LiveLink Aerospace (SME) | ACC6017373: Multi-Autonomous Sensor Tracking (MAST) | £349,929.76 |
| Airspeed Electronics Ltd (Micro SME) | ACC6017375: MANTIS Phase 2 | £349,660.00 |
| Aveillant Ltd (Large) | ACC6017551: Robust High Performance Radar Recognition of Drones | £349,984.00 |
| Plextek Services Limited (SME) | ACC6017677: Ubiquitous Radar for CUAS - Phase 2 | £349,699.00 |
| Autonomous Devices Limited (Micro SME) | ACC6017755: Orthus II | £349,800.00 |
| Cubica Technology Ltd (SME) | ACC6017873: EO-based Recognition of Swarming and Long Range UAS Threats and Effector Optimisation | £350,000.00 |
| Operational Solutions Ltd (SME) | ACC6018081: Drone Shooter | £349,741.25 |
| PA Consulting (Large) | ACC6018120: Achieving “Safer Skies” through the integration and collaboration of Unmanned Traffic Management systems (UTMs) and Counter Unmanned Aerial Systems (C-UAS) (P052598) | £222,865.00 |
| MBDA UK Limited (Large) | ACC6018265: Small UAS Delivered RF DEW Effector | £181,515.00 |
7. Innovative Research Call 2020 for Explosives and Weapons Detection
| Organisation and type | Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| Metrasens Ltd (SME) | ACC6018681: Detection of PBIEDs in high footfall situations | £68,528.16 |
| Fraunhofer UK Research Ltd (SME) | ACC6018723: DUCHESS: DUal Comb HyperspEctral Scanning Spectrometer | £66,041.00 |
| Ancon Technologies Ltd (SME) | ACC6018739: Novel device for real time non-contact detection of explosives | £68,929.21 |
| UCL (Academia) | ACC6018746: A new approach to material identification with x-rays based on the attenuation/phase duality | £69,321.48 |
| HALO X-ray Technologies Ltd (Micro SME) | ACC6018831: X-TREV : X-ray Threat Resolver for Vehicles | £3.00 |
| MMW SENSORS LIMITED (Micro SME) | ACC6018856: Explosives and weapons detection using machine learning full polarimetric microwave radar | £55,029.96 |
| Nottingham Trent University (Academia) | ACC6018863: Cellular X-ray Diffraction (CXRD) | £35,721.00 |
| Fraunhofer UK Research Ltd (SME) | ACC6018870: IMPASS - InterModulated PhotoAcoustic Stark Spectroscopy for explosives detection | £54,966.30 |
| University College London (Academia) | ACC6019168: Novel sensors for the detection of explosives | £9,270.00 |
| Oxford HighQ Ltd (Micro SME) | ACC6019170: Portable multi-analyte quantitative immunoassay sensor for enhanced detection of trace explosives using optical microcavities | £67,880.54 |
| LEAP Technologies Ltd. (Academia) | ACC6019564: Enhanced detection of explosive traces using a novel nonlinear amplification technology - NLA | £69,208.00 |
| Iconal Technology Ltd. (Micro SME) | ACC6019609: Fast self-service bag screening | £67,800.00 |
| National Physical Laboratory (Government Entity) | ACC6019610: Detection of concealed weapons and explosives with the radio-frequency atomic magnetometer | £69,633.00 |
| Inspection Tech (Micro SME) | ACC6019628: Capacitance Imager | £53,230.00 |
8. Telexistence Phase 1
| Organisation and type | Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| Veolia Nuclear Solutions (Large) | ACC6019978: Impedance Haptics for High Dexterity Defence and Security Applications | £48,033.07 |
| Cyberselves Universal Ltd. (Micro SME) | ACC6019996: TEL-E3 | £98,359.08 |
| Cyberselves Universal Ltd. (Micro SME) | ACC6020117: TEL-SUBSEA | £99,651.40 |
| Createc (SME) | ACC6020173: Overseer | £58,830.94 |
| Holoxica Limited (Micro SME) | ACC6020298: Holographic 3D Telexistence with Light Field Displays for Remote Object Interaction | £56,241.00 |
| University of Leeds (Academia) | ACC6020309: TeLeMan - Teleoperative Legged Manipulator for Explosive Ordnance Disposal | £99,578.44 |
| TNO (Academia) | ACC6020387: HABITS - Haptic Bimanual Telexistence System | £97,746.37 |
| Createc (SME) | ACC6020522: Haptic Master: Defence | £52,796.39 |
| Sheffield Hallam University (Academia) | ACC6020553: Horus | £46,341.05 |
| Digital Kinematics Ltd (Micro SME) | ACC6020563: EOD/CBRN Operations through Telexistence | £42,781.60 |
| L3Harris Technologies Inc. (Large) | ACC6020194: Immersive Telepresence for Haptic EOD Robotic Manipulation | £99,899.00 |
9. Biosensing Across Wide Areas Phase 2
| Organisation and type | Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| Fraunhofer UK Research Ltd and Fraunhofer Centre for Applied Photonics (SME) | ACC6015847: Combined Deep UV-excited fluorescence and Raman spectroscopic detector of in-theatre Bio-contaminants | £348,678.00 |
| Photon Systems, Inc. (SME) | ACC6016259: MAESTRO (Microbial Analysis on Environmental Surface Targets for Real-time Operations) | £445,189.84 |
10. Intelligent Ship Phase 2
| Organisation and type | Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| Rolls-Royce plc (Large enterprise) | ACC6017591: Intelligent decision-making for vessel power and propulsion machinery control using Artificial Chief Engineer® | £245,004.66 |
| CGI IT UK Ltd (Large enterprise) | ACC6017608: CGI Submission for ISAIN Phase 2, Challenge 1 | £1,493,550.00 |
| Frazer-Nash Consultancy (Dorking) (Large enterprise) | ACC6017829: IBIS Reinforcement Learning for DCFF - Phase 2 | £249,315.00 |
| SeeByte Limited (Large enterprise) | ACC6017834: (GALILEO) GoAL based decomposition for InteLligent ship ai nEtwOrk | £226,437.53 |
| Nottingham Trent University (University or academic institution) | ACC6018044: HADES: Human-Agent Design and EvaluationS | £249,541.68 |
| Montvieux Limited (SME) | ACC6018057: Intelligent Ship - the Next Generation (Phase 2) | £249,924.46 |
| Montvieux Limited (SME) | ACC6018230: Knowledge-based Naval Orders Toolset (KNOT) - ISAIN-ready | £174,316.90 |
| DIEM Analytics Ltd (Micro SME) | ACC6018293: Red Mirror phase 2 - AI for ‘likeliest-in circles’ i.e. improving on ‘dead reckoning’ and ‘furthest-on circles’ for highly manoeuvrable or easily concealed threats | £176,929.00 |
| Decision Lab (SME) | ACC6018311: CIAO Phase 2 - Advanced Compounded Intelligent Agents for Optimisation | £246,381.25 |
11. International Space Pitch Day
| Organisation and type | Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| Riskaware Limited (SME) | ACC6018697: SpaceAware Resilience | £52,894.38 |
| Spire Global UK (SME) | ACC6018206: Space Weather as a Service | £52,650.00 |
| Slingshot Aerospace, Inc. (SME) | ACC6018704: Slingshot Orbital Ensemble Catalog | £52,991.26 |
| 114 AI Innovation LLP (SME) | ACC6018602: Spacewise- Exploitation toolset to visualize, access and analyze multiple input streams of Data for advanced Space Command and Control using Cognitive AI | £50,920.00 |
| Rocket Communications (SME) | ACC6018556: SpaceACME: 4D Visualization Solution for Space Awareness, Communication, and Maneuver Evaluation | £52,780.63 |
| Cognitive Space, Inc. (Micro-SME) | ACC6018716: Multi-Level Security through Partitioned Blockchain | £53,000.00 |
| Swim.ai, Inc. (SME) | ACC6018263: Real-Time Orbital Situational Awareness Platform (ROSA) | £53,000.00 |
| precursor SPC (Micro-SME) | ACC6018537: 4D Space Weather Impact Tool | £52,500.00 |
| Clutch Space Systems Limited (Micro-SME) | ACC6018637:Space Resources Operational Availability Tool (SROAT) | £52,380.00 |
| Clearbox Systems Pty Ltd (SME) | ACC6018442: AI-enabled decision support for satellite service selection. | £52,320.00 |
12. Invisible Shield: Countering IEDs by Novel Technology and Techniques
| Organisation and type | Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult (Government Entity) | ACC6016171: LMBA | £149,093.12 |
| Cyber Defence Service (Micro SME) | ACC6016282: Deep Learning Signal Analysis for Detecting RF Links and Associated Components of IEDs | £98,542.65 |
| Compound Semiconductor Applications Catapult (Government Entity) | ACC6016748: Envelope Tracking Power Amplifier [ETPA] | £149,165.11 |
| Plextek Services Limited (SME) | ACC6016885: Novel Heatsinking Techniques Using AI Generative Design | £149,250.00 |
| Thales UK Ltd (Large) | ACC6016896: Adaptive Frugal Machine Learning for IED Signal Detection | £136,985.00 |
| The University of Manchester (Academia) | ACC6017528: Design Optimisation and Evaluation of Fibre Reinforced Polymer Ultra-wideband Antennas | £148,134.10 |
| Leonardo MW Ltd (Large) | ACC6017565: Artificial Intelligence Characterisation of RCIED Threat | £149,997.51 |
| MD1 Technology (Micro SME) | ACC6017571: Disruption Outside The Bubble | £90,910.00 |
| BSC Filters Ltd (SME) | ACC6017575: DFU (Deconfliction Filter Unit) | £106,540.04 |
| Lockheed Martin UK Ltd (Large) | ACC6017584: Temporal radio frequency hashing for rapid radio frequency signal analysis and classification | £147,381.81 |
| Roke Manor Research Ltd (Large) | ACC6017598: Techniques for MIMO and MaMIMO interference in LTE and 5G New Radio | £79,689.74 |
| PA Consulting (Large) | ACC6017601: RF Signal Analysis to Counter IEDs Using a Polynomial Eigenvalue Decomposition | £95,222.00 |
| Leonardo MW Ltd (Large) | ACC6017661: Smart Collaborative ECM | £149,999.43 |
| Plextek Services Limited (SME) | ACC6017664: Universal signal classification and parameterisation | £149,950.00 |
13. Behavioural Analytics Phase 2
| Organisation and type | Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title | Contract Value |
|---|---|---|
| Tectonic IP Ltd (SME) | ACC6017527: [SENTIENT] Symbiotic Cognitive System (SCS) for Agile Command, Control and Intelligence (C2I) | £96,240.00 |
| University of Sunderland (Academic) | ACC6017667: The Forensic Interview Trace©: Validation within a Defence and Security Environment. | £129,159.99 |
| Liopa (Micro SME) | ACC6017733: Speech Analytics system for use in the analysis of CCTV footage | £178,915.00 |
| Parenthetic, LLC (Micro SME) | ACC6018092: ACACIA: Analysis of Competition and Cooperation for Information Advantage | £249,987.96 |
| Cranfield University (Academic) | ACC6018100: Detecting the Exploitation of Human Cognitive Vulnerabilities Online (DEHCO) | £114,981.69 |
| Amarna Ltd (Micro SME) | ACC6018300: Population-level behavioural analytics using theoretical history: political, economic and cultural forecasting with compact, history-derived mathematical models | £103,000.00 |
| Deadpan AI Ltd (Micro SME) | ACC6018357: Using an AI behavioural lens for unrest prediction | £236,000.00 |
| PA Consulting (Large) | ACC6018365: Intelligent insight and interventions: Harnessing human behavioural driven predictive analytics to support intervention selection | £249,860.50 |
| QinetiQ Limited (Large) | ACC6018427: Predicting the descent into extremism and terrorism: Phase 2 | £249,224.50 |
| QinetiQ Limited (Large) | ACC6018428: Intelligent Nudging: Phase 2 | £249,759.50 |
| J2S Consulting Limited (Micro SME) | ACC6018424: SimCAST Phase 2 | £123,000.00 |
14. Advancing less lethal weapons Phase 1 (Track 1)
| Organisation and type | Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title | Contract Value |
|---|---|---|
| Laser Optical Engineering Ltd (Micro SME) | ACC6019655: Laser Dissuader | £68,696.26 |
| Inspection Tech (Micro SME) | ACC6019670: Handheld Device For 95 GHz Active Denial Weapon | £57,480.00 |
| The University of Newcastle, Australia (Academic) | ACC6019747: MELIPON | £49,645.40 |
| OpenWorks Engineering Ltd (SME) | ACC6019759: Targeted Effector At Range (TEAR) System - Remote and Accurate Deployment of an effector to temporarily incapacitate or mark an individual. | £50,619.60 |
15. Advancing less lethal weapons Phase 1 (Track 2)
| Organisation and type | Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title | Contract Value |
|---|---|---|
| Frazer-Nash Consultancy, Dorking (Large) | ACC6019716: Tactical Assault Drone | £81,855.00 |
| Wrap Technologies (SME) | ACC6019936: Wrap Technologies Extended Range (0-50 meter) Project Proposal | £65,000.00 |
| Axon Enterprise Inc. (Large) | ACC6019952: Modular Conducted Energy Device (MCED) | £77,000.00 |
16. Autonomy in Challenging Environments Phase 2
| Organisation and type | Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title | Contract Value |
|---|---|---|
| Beamagine SL (Micro SME) | ACC6017753: Improved local situational awareness through turbid media in AGVs | £394,508.80 |
| Autonomous Devices Limited (Micro SME) | ACC6017756: Aeolus Phase II | £399,822.00 |
| Sonardyne International Limited (Large) | ACC6018203: Collaborative unmanned maritime systems (UMS) operations for MCM operations in GPS denied environments | £298,487.37 |
| HORIBA MIRA (Large) | ACC6018343: Advanced Multi-Spectral Stereo Vision with AI for Autonomy | £396,145.32 |
| Imperial College London (Academia) | ACC6018492: Real-time 3D-vision-based UAV awareness and navigational autonomy | £388,809.66 |
| Deep Vision (Micro SME) | ACC6018647: Maintaining Mission Intent During Desynchronised UXV Operation | £208,042.00 |
| National Oceanography Centre (Academia) | ACC6018650: Unmanned Underwater Vehicles in Coastal Waters | £397,907.93 |
17. UAS in Urban Environment Phase 1
| Organisation and type | Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| Autonomous Devices Limited (Micro SME) | ACC6020171: Artemis | £149,110.00 |
| Skyborne Technologies (SME) | ACC6020174: Beneilli M4 12GA Shotgun optimised for UAS | £57,980.00 |
| Shield AI, Inc. (SME) | ACC6020287: Payload Capable Artificially Intelligent sUAS for Urban Environments | £149,815.00 |
| Skyborne Technologies (SME) | ACC6020462: Cerberus MI (Modular Integration) UAS | £109,980.00 |
| DefendTex Limited (SME) | ACC6020820: DefendTex Rocket Propulsion System | £135,180.00 |
| Wingman AI Agents Limited (SME) | ACC6020868: Adaptive Semantic-Controlled UAS for Effective Urban Missions | £150,000.00 |
| Frazer-Nash Consultancy (Large) | ACC6020893: Urban Warfare Drone | £140,143.00 |
18. Take Cover! Phase 3
| Organisation and type | Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| Quick Block Ltd (Micro SME) | ACC6021612: QuickBlock Defence: Rapid Assembly Vehicle Check Point | £238,880.00 |
| Beardsell & Sons Limited (Micro SME) | ACC6021397: Universal Battle Trench | £239,017.18 |