Transparency data
Defence and Security Accelerator funded contracts: 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2017
Updated 18 October 2023
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Defence and Security Accelerator funded contracts are listed below under each competition title. You can see successful organisations, the organisation type, reference number, project titles and contract funding amount. Some contracts will have been placed under the Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE) which has now transitioned into the Accelerator. These will contain a CDE reference number.
Enduring competition
| Competition cycle (month) | Organisation and type | Reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|---|
| February 2016 | Crossword Cybersecurity (SME) | CDE100045: Blockchain enabled smart documents | £81,020.00 |
| Crypta Labs (SME) | CDE100133: Development of a quantum random number generator microchip | £96,040.00 | |
| NPL (large) | CDE100229: Metallization of fabrics for microwave applications (MOFMA) | £79,887.00 | |
| March 2016 | NPL (large) | CDE100132: Extrusion of microwave tailored electromagnetic materials (EMTEM) | £82,436.00 |
| TWI (SME) | CDE100208: Wireless actuation and control of dynamic components in a fixed wing composite drone using zenneckwave (ANODIZE) | £66,276.50 | |
| University of Strathclyde (academia) | CDE100387: Limb stabilisation and circulatory support technology | £136,162.02 | |
| University of Strathclyde (academia) | CDE100403: Field deployable pneumatic tourniquet and tissue preservation system | £126,390.80 | |
| Machine to Machine Solutions Ltd (micro) | CDE100187: Exploiting tensors as a method for processing complex data on embedded processors | £98,613.20 | |
| Thales UK (large) | CDE100385: Standoff body scanner | £63,760.22 | |
| April 2016 | London Institute for Mathematical Sciences (academia) | CDE100384: Ultra-strong ultra-light fractal structures for defence & space | £98,192.00 |
| University of Exeter (academia) | CDE100404: High temperature additive manufacturing with embedded fibre optic sensors | £116,524.08 | |
| May 2016 | Imperial College London (academia) | CDE100388: Illumination invariant change detection based on airborne & satellite optical sensing | £84,261.00 |
| University of Nottingham (academia) | CDE100675: Development of bio inspired lightweight self-healing composite synthetic foam core sandwich structures for blast mitigation | £92,394.04 | |
| June 2016 | University of Bath (academia) | CDE100436: Programmed stimuli-responsive reinforcement for novel 3d printed architectures | £114,260.00 |
| Folium Optics Ltd (Micro) | CDE100481: Doubly curved visor for active laser protection system (VALPS) | £87,771.26 | |
| Nonwovens Innovation & Research Institute (NIRI) (SME) | CDE100744: Breathable resilient three-dimensional nonwoven fabrics for improved ballistic resistance & comfort | £50,943.13 | |
| July 2016 | Oak Power (Micro) | CDE100873: SEME2 (Small Efficient Multi-Fuel Engine 2) | £89,700.00 |
| August 2016 | Politechnico di Milano (academia) | CDE100909: A portable fibre-laser device for hyper spectral detection of water contaminants to counter water-related terrorism | £83,000.00 |
| BMT Nigel Gee Ltd (SME) | CDE100945: Innovative high speed small craft | £102,488.00 | |
| September 2016 | QinetiQ (large) | CDE100946: Celestial autonomous navigation using single stars (CANUSS) | £95,121.32 |
| Cranfield University (academia) | CDE101002: Collecting & leveraging identity cues from keystroke analysis (CLICKA) | £56,234.00 | |
| October 2016 | Warwick University (academia) | CDE101028: 21st century alternatives to penicillin to tackle biothreat pathogens | £69,589.11 |
| Loughborough University (academia) | CDE101081: developing instrumental patient specific residual-limb digitizing platform for hands-off prosthetic socket design | £89,995.31 | |
| Atlas Elektronik Ltd (large) | CDE101131: ‘galaxy quest’ - autonomous rapid & robust detection & classification of stealthy targets in high clutter | £89,316.17 | |
| November 2016 | Myrtle Software Ltd (SME) | CDE100793: Mobile deep learning hardware for defence | £86,780.00 |
Autonomy and big data for defence (phase 2)
| Organisation and type | CDE reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| CountingLab Ltd (SME) | P2CDE500056: Prioritising open-source social media information: separating fact from fiction | £392,550.00 |
| Oxbotica Ltd (SME) | P2CDE500060: Autonomous GPS-free off-road vehicle navigation using low cost stereo vision | £548,997.60 |
| Createc (SME) | P2CDE500065: LiveFUSE - big data driven autonomous navigation for urban S-UAS | £399,341.91 |
| Polaris Consulting Ltd (SME) | P2CDE500068: An ant colony optimisation risk based meta-heuristic model for real time route optimisation in autonomous surface vehicles | £398,817.00 |
| Horiba Mira (large) | P2CDE500063: UGV localisation & perception using deep learning neural networks | £365,800.88 |
| Leonardo MW Ltd (large) | P2CDE500073: mitigating data deluge in intelligent multi-sensor & OSINT surveillance systems (MATISSE) | £398,817.00 |
Persistent surveillance from the air (phase 2)
| Organisation and type | CDE reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| QinetiQ (large) | P2CDE500032: Software defined multi-function LIDAR for HAPS - long range demonstrator | £358,622.38 |
| Glyndwr Innovations Ltd (academia) | P2CDE500035: Ultra-light optical system for persistent surveillance | £387,090.00 |
| Amethyst research Ltd (SME) | P2CDE500037: Versatile lightweight low power multi-spectral infrared imaging system for persistent surveillance | £348,733.58 |
| University of Birmingham (academia) | P2CDE500034: Persistent surveillance from air with a low frequency MIMO towed array radar - SIMITAR II | £259,324.74 |
Agile, immersive mission training (phase 2)
| Close Air Solutions Ltd (SME) | P2CDE500046: Project SWAVES | £487,587.28 |
| Inzpire Ltd (SME) | P2CDE500049: Project GHOST (graphically hosted objective solution for training) | £455,998.40 |
Synthetic biology for novel materials
| Organisation and type | CDE reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| Swansea University (academia) | CDE100367: Developing a novel protein-based coating technology for anti-corrosion of magnesium light alloy materials | £80,052.63 |
| LabGenius Ltd (SME) | CDE100598: Increased energy for flexible body armours | £100,000.00 |
| Imperial College London (academia) | CDE100677: New light-weight ceramic composites via DNA template technology | £99,563.72 |
| Loughborough University (academia) | CDE100572: Development of hierarchical composites through virus-enabled synthesis (HIVES) | £99,906.12 |
| University of Edinburgh (academia) | CDE100662: Lignin-based metallic nanoparticle composites as anti-corrosion agents | £99,956.76 |
| University of Warwick (academia) | CDE100593:Cell-free platform for novel smart functional living materials | £79,979.00 |
| University of Manchester (academia) | CDE100640: Tough recombinant spider silk/graphene multifunctional nanofibers for wearable personal protection | £99,601.67 |
| Imperial College London (academia) | CDE100659: The de nono design of high performance wearable continuous polypeptide fibres for personal protection | £101,049.48 |
Detect and treat hearing loss and tinnitus
| Organisation and type | CDE reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| University College London (academia) | CDE100571: Towards a pill for treating tinnitus | £90,096.01 |
| University of Washington (academia) | CDE100684: Early detection of noise-induced hearing loss | £78,579.00 |
| Pragma Therapeutics (Micro) | CDE100704: mGlu7 allostmetric modulators for treatment of tinnitus | £92,575.00 |
| Plextek (SME) | CDE100740: Automated audiometric testing using evoked potential | £81,975.00 |
| PA Consulting (Micro) | CDE100743: access to early intratympanic treatment for noise induced tinnitus | £96,530.00 |
Seeing through the clouds
| Organisation and type | CDE reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| QinetiQ (large) | CDE100839: novel application of a radar clutter rejection technique at optical frequencies for separation of weak target returns from cloud | £75,694.58 |
| Heriot-Watt University (academia) | CDE100854: QuVis- visualisation using large-format single-photon counting arrays | £43,305.80 |
| Heriot-Watt University (academia) | CDE100963: Imaging through obscurants using single-photon & few-photon approaches in the short wave infrared | £79,030.97 |
| University of Birmingham (academia) | CDE101037: ultrafast time-gated time of flight detection of ballistic photons | £59,889.80 |
| Leonardo MW Ltd (large) | CDE101042: passive imaging through dust clouds | £98,761.44 |
| Thales UK (large) | CDE101044: coherent imaging LIDAR | £79,160.00 |
| Lancaster University (academia) | CDE101070: geiger mode single photon detector arrays for active imaging through clouds with eSWIR & MWIR spectral ranges | £55,744.14 |
| University of Southampton (academia) | CDE101072: spatially offset coherence imaging using time-reversed quasi ballistic photons | £46,455.00 |
Many drones make light work
| Organisation and type | Accelerator reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| Imperial College London (academia) | ACC101489: ‘Manifold extender’ for UAV array signal processing | £72,939.00 |
| Andibee Ltd (SME) | ACC101149: A modular reconfigureable drone & swarm flight control system for optimum mission performance | £76,246.50 |
| Blue Bear Systems Research Ltd (SME) | ACC101493: addressing cost fieldability & third party integration challenge of a multi agent open modular UAS system | £79,664.00 |
| Blue Bear Systems Research Ltd (SME) | ACC101437: A user-centred approach to a frationated system human machine interface | £81,998.00 |
| Tactical Systems Designs (SME) | ACC101378: dynamic - dynamic neural misssion controller | £83,290.00 |
| Barnard Microsystems (SME) | ACC101352: Panchito UAS platform | £57,715.00 |
| Lancaster University (academia) | ACC101411: Co-operative localisation & distributed control of UAV swarms | £79,677.75 |
| NSC (SME) | ACC101299: Monarch. A swarm hosted distributed peer-to-peer command & control network for area search task | £67,772.00 |
| IQHQ (SME) | ACC101283: new algorithms for enhancing the scalability of swarming UAS mesh networks | £74,970.00 |
| Thales UK (large) | ACC101267: Autonomous air observer | £74,035.26 |
| Roke Manor Research Limited (large) | ACC101199: Multi-drone optimal imaging | £88,679.49 |
| Airbus Defence & Space Ltd (large) | ACC101305: a simultaneous radar imaging and communications system in a low SWAP package | £80,000.00 |
| Plextek (SME) | ACC101500: Fractionated ESM | £72,495.00 |
Autonomy for hazardous scene assessment
| Organisation and type | Accelerator reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| Blue Bear Systems Research Ltd (SME) | ACC101186: RISER autonomy for emergency response | £79,791.00 |
| Blue Bear Systems Research Ltd (SME) | ACC101538: RISER UAS for chemical detection | £55,220.00 |
| Createc (SME) | ACC101521: multi agent localisation & map sharing | £71,469.89 |
| Envitia (SME) | ACC101539: Collaborative autonomy for emergency scene assessment and response CAESAR | £74,375.00 |
| Horiba Mira (large) | ACC101534: Deep neural network based survey autonomous exploration and mapping for hazardous scenes | £94,987.82 |
| BMT Defence Services (SME) | ACC101384: REDALERT rapid exploitation of data generated from an autonomous UAV | £88,499.82 |
| SCISYS Ltd (large) | ACC101228: hazard-oriented optimisation of autonomous scene exploration HASTE | £78,270.00 |
| BAE Systems Ops (large) | ACC101127: integrated mission tasking of autonomous systems for hazardous scene assessment | £79,976.20 |
| Autonomous Devices Ltd (SME) | ACC101541: snake eyes | £84,228.00 |
| Roke Manor Research Limited (large) | ACC101561: warning people in hazardous environments | £53,452.24 |
| Loughborough University (academia) | ACC101517: autonomous bayesian search for hazardous sources | £49,939.73 |
| Imperial College London (academia) | ACC101491: autonomous aquatic-aerial micro vehicles for disaster scenes assessment | £73,718.29 |
| University of York (academia) | ACC101169: self-repairing neural controllers for autonomous chemical identification | £78,500.50 |
| Heriot-Watt University (academia) | ACC101540: autonomous mapping of airborne & localised contamination | £99,984.37 |
| Archangel Imaging Ltd (SME) | ACC101546: Visual Navigation in Complex Environments | £79,650.00 |
| Advanced Laser Imaging Ltd (SME) | ACC101270: 3D real time mapping with near real time delivery over webserver | £75,400.00 |
| Advanced Nano Technologies & Scientific Ltd (ANTS) (SME) | ACC101257: a unmanned air vehicle NAHVS or nano hazardous vacuum sampler payload for air/gas/powder/liquids | £78,500.00 |
| Pendar Technologies LLC (SME) | ACC101396: UGV mounted proximal long-wave infrared spectrometer enabled by quantum cascade laser arrays | £79,850.42 |