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New competition - metasurfaces for defence and security

The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) is pleased to announce the launch of a new competition on metasurfaces for defence and security.

Metasurfaces

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 can harness electromagnetic hardware. DASA are particularly interested in novel metasurfaces and manufacturing technologies to integrate them in to platforms.

Up to £500,000 is available for phase 1 of this competition. Additional funding of up to £500,000 may be available for phase 2. DASA will be encouraging collaboration between academia and industry.

The competition is now open. Full details are available in the competition document.

The competition will close at midday on 28 September 2018.

For any queries, please do not hesitate email us at accelerator@dstl.gov.uk.

Published 13 July 2018
Last updated 16 August 2018 + show all updates
  1. Competition document now available

  2. First published.