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Market Exploration

The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) conducts Market Explorations to determine future activities.

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Defence and Security Accelerator
Published
20 May 2019
Last updated
1 October 2025 — See all updates

Market explorations enable us to determine solutions that already exist, novel solutions in development and areas that potentially require further investment. We do this by collecting information to better understand the current market capability in a specific area in order to stimulate the market and shape the focus of any follow-on activity.

Please note that these requests for information do not form a commitment to subsequently launch a formal DASA competition.

There are currently no Market Explorations open for submission

Past Market Exploration activities

Updates to this page

Published 20 May 2019
Last updated 1 October 2025 show all updates

  1. Conflict Wounds market exploration moved to the 'past market explorations' list.

  2. New Market Exploration added as being open: Modelling and Monitoring Conflict Wounds

  3. Moved Market Exploration: Non-Compressible Haemorrhage – Novel Technologies to past MEs.

  4. Added new current Market Exploration: Non-Compressible Haemorrhage – Novel Technologies

  5. Market Exploration: Non-Compressible Haemorrhage - Novel Technologies now added

  6. Market Exploration: Air Launched Effects - moved from current list to past list

  7. Added Market Exploration: Air Launched Effects

  8. Move Market Exploration: Facial Recognition to past activities

  9. Add new Market Exploration - Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance and Electron Spin Resonance for Explosives and Drugs Detection

  10. Added new market exploration, Facial Recognition

  11. Added a new Market Exploration: Project CHARYBDIS.

  12. 'How Clean is your Hull?' has been moved from Current to Past market exploration activities as it has now closed.

  13. Added new Market Exploration: How Clean is your Hull?

  14. Market exploration: Evidential testing of drug drivers, now closed

  15. Adding new Market exploration, re-ordered past activities list

  16. New market exploration launched: "Evidential Testing of Drug Drivers"

  17. Added new Market Exploration: Hybridisation of the Naval Fleet

  18. Market Exploration: Tackling E-Scooter and E-Bike enabled crime has closed for submissions.

  19. New market exploration launched: Tackling E-Scooter and E-Bike enabled crime

  20. High consequence infectious disease medical evacuation market exploration now closed. Zero Emissions Air System and Supercharging MOD’s Power Quality Management added.

  21. New market exploration launched entitled: High Consequence Infectious Disease Medical Evacuation

  22. Added new Market exploration: surgical instrument sterilisation in austere environments

  23. Future policing market exploration now open

  24. Market exploration: innovative security features for bank notes has been removed. Funding now available via open call for innovation

  25. New Market exploration: innovative security features for bank notes - open now for submission of innovation outlines.

  26. Moved 'Innovation in Aircrew Protection' Market Exploration to Past

  27. Current Market Exploration added

  28. First published.

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