Transparency data
Defence and Security Accelerator funded contracts: 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018
Updated 18 October 2023
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Open Call for Innovation
| Organisation and type | Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title | Contract value | Cycle |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amaroq Ltd (SME) | ACC101862: Heat assisted compression ignition two-strike diesel engine | £88,920.00 | 1 |
| Zone Arts Networks Ltd (SME) | ACC102004: perimeter lockdown & personnel tracking using wireless geolocation | £89,600.50 | 1 |
| Sanctum Technologies (SME) | ACC102340: preventing noise-induced hearing loss: development of an active noise cancellation device for commercial & military legacy ve | £89,818.40 | 1 |
| Trauma Simulation Ltd (SME) | ACC101867: rugged whole-body trauma simulation model for pre-hospital & MERT/enroute care | £88,496.57 | 2 |
| Swansea University (academia) | ACC102383: single element extremely wideband (0.8 - 18 GHz) multi-functional liquid metal hybrid antenna with beam steering capability | £55,499.00 | 2 |
| Nottingham Trent University (academia) | ACC102283: acoustic sensor yarns | £89,327.06 | 2 |
| Wapentake systems Ltd (SME) | ACC102285: gaming tactical psychology | £55,660.00 | 2 |
| D-RisQ Ltd (SME) | ACC101990: binary verification investigation (BVI) | £88,772.00 | 3 |
| Chromacity Ltd (Micro) | ACC102067: mid-infrared source for stand-off detection | £87,550.00 | 3 |
| AVID Technology Ltd (SME) | ACC102352: high efficiency electric UAV propulsion | £88,262.50 | 3 |
| Weedrbot Innovations (Micro) | ACC102449: laser cloud clearing | £79,680.00 | 3 |
| University of Sheffield (academia) | ACC102513: controlling light at ultra-high speed: fast 3D printed SLMs using the flexoelectro-optic liquid crystal mode | £89,431.00 | 3 |
| Ancon Technologies Ltd (SME) | ACC102316: vapour extractor for detecting CWA aerosols | £84,979.40 | 4 |
| Folium Optics Ltd (SME) | ACC102439: active filter technology for laser dazzle protection | £89,190.00 | 4 |
| Securium Ltd (Micro) | ACC102482: tracking online dissemination and manifestation of content | £89,761.14 | 4 |
| University College London (academia) | ACC102489: machine learning aided electromagnetic imaging with atomic magnetometers | £88,980.00 | 4 |
| Prismatic Ltd (Micro) | ACC102518: high altitude persistent surveillance | £65,486.00 | 4 |
| University of Warwick (academia) | ACC102665: novel molecular communications for EM-denied environments | £89,930.70 | 4 |
| University of York (academia) | ACC102695: continuous planning of operational processes applied to non-combatant evacuation operations | £89,910.00 | 4 |
| Amethyst research Ltd (Micro) | ACC102762: ultra-high performance laser line infrared resonant cavity detectors for remote stand-off chemical & explosive detection | £89,496.00 | 4 |
| Dmist Research Ltd (Micro) | ACC102887: efficient detection of threat objects in shallow water using LIDAR | £71,739.24 | 5/6 |
| Silicon Microgravity (Micro) | ACC102912: ultra precise gyroscope | £90,000.00 | 5/6 |
| 2iC Ltd ((Micro) | ACC102954: tactical universal interpretation device proof of concept | £88,540.00 | 5/6 |
| Oxford NanoSystems (Micro) | ACC102359: IC-HIPE: improve cooling of high powered electronics | £89,521.30 | 5/6 |
| Scytronix Ltd (Micro) | ACC102732: null field scanning for detection of concealed weapons explosives and land = mines | £85,500.00 | 5/6 |
| Bristol Maritime Robotics (Micro) | ACC102841: feasibility of Whisker flow field assisted underwater navigation | £83,056.00 | 5/6 |
| National Physical Laboratory (Large) | ACC102879: RF material characterisation with near-field electroptic sensing: RF match | £89,839.00 | 5/6 |
| University of west of England (Academia) | ACC103103: HASTE- Human centric active learning for decision support in threat exploration | £84,841.86 | 6/7 |
Beyond battery power
| Organisation and type | Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| University of Sussex (academia) | ACC101714: resonating semi-free piston generator | £89,699.21 |
| Upgrade Technology Engineering Ltd (SME) | ACC101733: forced induction rotary engine (FIRE) engine | £52,980.00 |
| University of Bath (academia) | ACC101711: wave rotor micro gas turbine | £80,854.80 |
| Mansion Ecopartners Ltd (SME) | ACC101646: ranger powerpack - prime mover innovation | £78,332.10 |
| University College London (academia) | ACC101684: ADAPT - ammonia fuel cell systems for defence applications | £74,491.66 |
Synthetic biology for transparent materials
| Organisation and type | Accelerator reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| Imperial College London (academia) | ACC101658: optically transparent acrylic composite laminates derived from microbially-synthesised nanofibres | £80,000.00 |
| University of Manchester (academia) | ACC101671: sustainable synthesis of transparent polymer coatings with tuneable two photon optical limiting properties | £83,220.10 |
| LabGenius Ltd (SME) | ACC101850: nanofibre reinforced transparent polymer composite armour | £79,999.99 |
| LabGenius Ltd (SME) | ACC101704: nucleic acid-based adhesive interlayers for transparent armour | £79,999.99 |
| University of Edinburgh (academia) | ACC101748: nanoscale engineering of anti-glint materials using synthetic biology and protein design | £83,706.36 |
| Zentraxa (SME) | ACC101800: marine inspired bio-glues | £93,253.00 |
| Swansea University (academia) | ACC101824: developing a bio-inspired adhesive technology for transparent defence materials | £81,270.45 |
| Syn-Bio Graphene Silk (SME) | ACC101849: syn-bio graphene silk composite | £76,410.00 |
| University of Warwick (academia) | ACC101854:cell-free platform for smart fliving transparent adhesives | £78,939.66 |
Seeing through the clouds (phase 2)
| Organisation and type | Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| Thales (Large) | ACC500097: Coherent imaging LIDAR phase 2 | £238,267.00 |
| Heriot-Watt University (academia) | ACCC50101: Imaging through obscurants using single-photon & few-photon approaches in the short wave infrared P2 | £333,200.83 |
| Leonardo Land & naval defence electronics Ltd (Large) | ACC500098: Passive imaging through dust clouds P2 | £409,170.16 |
Fast-track: revolutionise the human information relationship for Defence
| Organisation and type | Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| Aston University (academia) | ACC102190: NIPRE | £83,649.60 |
| Cambridge Consultants (large) | ACC102244: rapid sensor integration using the blockchain | £141,866.00 |
| Covijn Ltd (micro) | ACC102125: deep learning triage alerts system | £31,685.23 |
| DecisionLab (SME) | ACC102262: aircraft health modelling and alerting using recurrent neural networks | £130,397.00 |
| Montvieux (SME) | ACC101999: a predictive cognitive control system for predictive analytic modelling | £140,080.00 |
| Roke Manor Research Limited (large) | ACC102246: probabalastic constraint logic for interacting with mixed human & machine sourced data | £120,917.65 |
| University of Southampton (academia) | ACC102123: human-UAV teaming in dynamic and uncertain environments | £73,073.58 |
Standard-track: revolutionise the human information relationship for Defence
| Organisation and type | Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| Aleph Insights Ltd (micro) | ACC101876: adaptive report generation assistant | £99,500.00 |
| Atlas Elektronik Ltd (large) | ACC101882: enhanced operator cognition and visualisation in a UxV human-machine team | £99,876.02 |
| BAE Systems Surface Ships (large) | ACC102072: agile intelligent sensor integrator | £88,719.05 |
| CGA Simulation (micro) | ACC102153: MILAR - machine learning and augmented reality for decision response | £99,943.20 |
| CGI IT UK Ltd (large) | ACC102169: artificial analyst with intelligent image understanding | £86,028.72 |
| Cubica Technology Ltd (micro) | ACC102205: rapid online information exploration and exploitation system (RAIN) | £99,862.50 |
| Cubica Technology Ltd (micro) | ACC102185: rapid multi-sensor deployment using automatic calibration | £99,750.00 |
| Daden Ltd (micro) | ACC102098: AVID a virtual assistant for data visualisation towards the zero UI | £79,770.00 |
| Heriot-Watt University (academia) | ACC101939: MIRIAM - multimodal intelligent interaction for autonomous systems | £92,791.41 |
| Horiba MIRA (large) | ACC102183: a novel simulation approach for training artificial intelligence software agents in the defence context | £86,794.96 |
| J2S Consulting Ltd (SME) | ACC101941: total recall - a human machine teaming system demonstrator | £89,900.00 |
| Montvieux (SME) | ACC102261: an unsupervised approach to retraining sensor models | £99,736.19 |
| NSC (SME) | ACC102268: ISTAR automated target tracking | £92,727.60 |
| Overview Ltd (SME) | ACC101937: smart autonomous surveillance module (ASM) | £99,520.62 |
| Polaris Consulting Ltd (SME) | ACC102078: machine learning support to team based decision making team dominance based rough set | £91,100.00 |
| QinetiQ (large) | ACC102082: autonomous control of sensors on autonomous mobile platforms | £70,746.26 |
| Qumodo (micro) | ACC102163: mobile image search conversational agent (MISCA) | £98,827.95 |
| Roke Manor Research Limited (large) | ACC102210: sensor evaluation using semi supervised learning | £88,274.67 |
| Thales UK (large) | ACC101936: advanced situational awareness for AFV crew | £69,037.01 |
| TNO (large) | ACC102048: SASSSSISLAN - single analysis system for seamless and swift integration of sensors in a large ah-hoc network | £59,147.00 |
| University of Birmingham (academia) | ACC102143: joint decision making in multi-criteria multi-attribute domains | £91,335.19 |
| University of Cambridge (academia) | ACC101965: distributed multi-display system and middleware for close-proximity operator gaze and attention tracking | £70,250.04 |
| University of Essex (academia) | ACC102137: automatic integration of new sensor capabilities by genetic programming | £99,592.21 |
| University of Southampton (academia) | ACC102157: human machine teaming for intelligence analysis | £99,819.14 |
| Xihelm (micro) | ACC102254: build TheiaView a flexible object detection and classification toolset for tracking prioritised threats in real-time video | £92,310.00 |
| Xuvasi (micro) | ACC102257: FLYHALF | £79,675.00 |
Fast-track: revolutionise the human information relationship for Defence (phase 2)
| Organisation and type | Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| DecisionLab (SME) | ACC500162: prognostic asset condition capability using advanced machine learning for use in air naval & other domain | £392,254.00 |
| Montvieux (SME) | ACC500164: operationalisation & exploitation of a predictive cognitive control system | £467,269.78 |
Autonomous last mile Resupply
| Organisation and type | Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| 2iC Ltd (Micro) | ACC102697: Autonomous Logistics vehicle intelligent services (ALVIS) | £88,928.00 |
| Aberystwyth University (Academia) | ACC102488: Multi-strategy topological navigation | £81,362.00 |
| Animal Dynamics (SME) | ACC102727: Paramotor payload delivery | £85,896.00 |
| BAE Systems (Large) | ACC102657: Ironclad 2 - an all terrain armoured UGV | £49,542.82 |
| BAE Systems (Large) | ACC102791:Dynamic automated logistics planning/tracking/prediction | £79,996.40 |
| Barnard Microsystems (Micro) | ACC102466: Autonomous VTOL UAVs for cargo transportation in a complex military environment | £79,870.00 |
| Barnard Microsystems (Micro) | ACC102796: Autonomous unmanned cargo aircraft technology for use in complex military environments | £79,975.00 |
| Blue Bear Systems Research Ltd (SME) | ACC102815: Fractionated autonomy for stores transport (FAST) | £83,780.00 |
| Blue Bear Systems Research Ltd (SME) | ACC102816: Multi-UxV unmanned traffic management | £83,538.00 |
| Fleetonomy.ai OY (Micro) | ACC102805: Project workhorse: an Uber-style drone delivery service utilising fusion data from 3D photogrammetry and open map data for local | £69,310.00 |
| Frazer Nash Consultancy (Large) | ACC102690: REARM - route environment and asset resupply manager | £81,705.00 |
| Griff Aviation (SME) | ACC102831: Griff Aviation autonomous supply | £85,150.00 |
| Horiba Mira (Large) | ACC102839: Artificial intelligence based low bandwidth perception command and control for last mile autonomy | £98,692.52 |
| Horiba Mira (Large) | ACC102860: Advanced terrain perception intelligent routeing and path planning using intelligence for last mile autonomy | £99,887.73 |
| Malloy Aeronautics Ltd (Micro) | ACC102541: Fully autonomous robotic pickup and delivery (FARPaD) | £67,757.32 |
| Marble Aerospace (Micro) | ACC102533: Swarm of high speed and small payload UAS with robotic hangars, for high speed long range resupply of small size item | £87,618.00 |
| Pearson Engineering Ltd (SME) | ACC102554: HIPPO-X autonomous ground vehicle | £80,000.00 |
| Plextek Services Ltd (SME) | ACC102480: Mm-wave micro-radar to enable day/night all-weather sense-to-avoid | £76,750.00 |
| QinetiQ (Large) | ACC102524: THEMIS robot as an open and modular ROS platform | £78,461.25 |
| QinetiQ (Large) | ACC102857: Hover-bike deployment to support frontline military logistics | £77,699.96 |
| Red Scientific Ltd (SME) | ACC102687: Bounded autonomous tractor trailer logistic supply (BATTLS) | £85,250.00 |
| Roke Manor Research Ltd (Large) | ACC102828: Autonomous rendezvous: accurate delivery in a dynamic environment | £88,487.57 |
| SteelRock UAV Solutions Ltd (SME) | ACC102739: SR-1 eagle Owl autonomous supply UAV | £27,000.00 |
| Systems Engineering and Assessment Ltd (SME) | ACC102812: Logistic resource demand prediction utilising live information feeds to a predictive neural network based expert system | £79,865.65 |
| University of Hull (Academia) | ACC102789: ALMRCH.3 2017 | £65,703.50 |
Many drones make light work (Phase 2)
| Organisation and type | Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| Barnard Microsystems (SME) | ACC500150: Inswarm - demonstration of a 20 UAV fractionated swarm of state of the art UAVs | £497,704.58 |
| Blue Bear Systems Research Ltd (SME) | ACC500152: Effects driven fractionated system human machine interface & user configurable autonomy behaviours | £212,842.00 |
| Blue Bear Systems Research Ltd (SME) | ACC500153: Modular UAS + enabling fractionated command control and communications (C3) | £485,535.00 |
| Imperial College (Academia) | ACC500120: Manifold extender for UAV array signal processsing | £154,761.10 |
| Airbus Defence & Space (Large) | ACC500126: Fractionated SAR using a SDR based milti-mode RF payload | £397,778.66 |
| Plextek Services Ltd (SME) | ACC500132:Fractionated ESM | £242,036.25 |
| Plextek Services Ltd (SME) | ACC500137: Antennas to enable an RF ecosystem for small UAS platforms covering fractionated ESM & communications | £207,000.00 |
| Tactical Systems Designs (Micro) | ACC500144: Inswarm : SAMPLAN - sensor autonomy & mission planner | £257,171.00 |
| IQHQ (SME) | ACC500146: A self organising mesh network | £79,500.00 |
Improving crowd resilience
Track 1 - Low TRL entry (up to TRL 4)
| Organisation and type | Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| createc (Micro) | ACC103204: SLATE - crowd monitoring & alerts | £84,522.37 |
| QinetiQ (Large) | ACC103287: Using a crowd emotion ‘heatmap’ to support decision making in security personnel | £79,560.14 |
| Queen’s University Belfast (Academia) | ACC103147: Multi-view fusion for crowd analysis in video | £79,127.00 |
| University of Kent (Academia) | ACC103280: Improving crowd resilience - using social identity to enhance detection & response to threats | £79,368.55 |
| University of Southampton (Academia) | ACC103271: We’re in this together: using evidence based visual perception research to enhance the crowds ability to detect threats | £78,509.11 |
Track 1 - Mid TRL entry (TRL 4 - 6)
| Organisation and type | Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| K Sharp Ltd (SME) | ACC103032: CRIB Crowd resilience through iBeacons | £249,502.00 |
| Krowdthink Ltd (SME) | ACC103024: Making the crowd a participatory threat sensor & responder | £241,432.50 |
Autonomy in Hazardous Scene Assessment Phase 2
| Organisation and type | Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| Horiba Mira (Large) | ACC500131: Deep Neural Network Based Survey, Autonomous Exploration and Mapping for Hazardous Scenes | £461,451.83 |
| BMT Defence Services (Large) | ACC500142: Red Alert: Autonomous Aerial Surveying | £386,497.37 |
| Loughborough University (Academia) | ACC500113: Autonomous Search for Chemical Release with a pocket-sized Drone [SceneSEARCH] | £375,439.85 |
| Autonomous Devices Ltd (SME) | ACC500110: Snake Eyes: Option 3 | £408,410.05 |
Future Aviation Security Solutions (Phase 2)
| Organisation and type | Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| Scanna Msc Ltd (SME) | ACC500171: Step-on shoe scanner: detecting explosives & weapons by 3D complex permittivity sensing | £198,050.00 |
| Durham University (Academia) | ACC500173: Automatic anomaly detection for the in-situ screening of liquids & large electronics within conventional x-ray imagery | £130,968.82 |
| University College London (Academia) | ACC500184: Next-generation automated image analysis for security: semantics & anomalies | £332,520.00 |
| Sequestim (SME) | ACC500185: Demonstration of walk through passenger security screening | £400,000.00 |
| University College London (Academia) | ACC500186: Electromagnetic imagingfor aviation security - Phase 2 | £149,123.00 |
| University of Cambridge (Academia) | ACC500187: Targetless search training: optimisation & preparation for airport trials | £122,659.00 |
| Security Screening Technologies Ltd (SME) | ACC500193: Rapid in-situ automatic screening of footware by low-cost millimetre wave imaging | £78,900.00 |
| Sociedad Europea de Analisis Differencial of Movilidad SL (SME) | ACC500196: New two-stage differential mobility analyser for the screening of explosives & incendiary devices in cargo | £399,390.00 |
The future of aviation security
| Organisation and type | Accelerator reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| Durham University (academia) | ACC101756: Automatic detection & classification of in-situ liquids & large electronics within x-ray security | £76,902.00 |
| CGI IT UK Ltd (large) | ACC101717: X-ray threat detection using a deep learned attention mechanism | £65,236.08 |
| University College of London (academia) | ACC101721: Electronic imaging for aviation security | £65,692.12 |
| University College of London (academia) | ACC101723: Anomaly detection for aviation security | £62,700.00 |
| Sequestim (micro SME) | ACC101649: Walk-through passenger screening | £69,952.00 |
| University of Cambridge (academia) | ACC101701: Development of ‘targetless’ search training host and CaSePIX image library | £36,827.79 |
| Ancon Technologies Ltd (SME) | ACC101601: In-line detection of trace explosives integrated in x-ray baggage scanner | £85,768.10 |
| Plextek Services (SME) | ACC101656: Ultra-wideband microwave spectroscopy for the identification of hidden threat materials | £93,605.00 |
| Plextek Services (SME) | ACC101757: Ambient pressure microwave spectroscopy for stand-off vapour detection | £64,620.00 |
| RHT SpectraSafe Inc (micro SME) | ACC101688: A walk-through passenger screening portal for explosives and weapons detection | £95,467.20 |
| Sociedad Europea de Analisis Differencial of Movilidad SL (SME) | ACC101749: New two-stage differential mobility analyser for the screening of explosives and incendiary devices in cargo & hold baggage | £80,668.00 |
| XPCI Technology Ltd (micro SME) | ACC101705: Combining X-ray phase contrast imaging and deep learning to transform baggage scanning | £95,025.00 |
| Rapiscan Systems Ltd (large) | ACC101603: Personnel screening combining ultra-wideband imaging and locating characterising metal detectors to provide enhanced security | £79,460.00 |
| Scytronix Ltd (micro SME) | ACC101772: near field sub-wavelength shoe scanner for weapons detection | £78,500.00 |
| Security Screening Technologies Ltd (micro SME) | ACC101775: Rapid in-situ footware scanner for airport security applications | £35,700.00 |
| Thales UK (large) | ACC101640: Standoff body scanner | £67,491.65 |
| Anatune (SME) | ACC101625: High-throughput baggage and clothing screening for explosives using SIFT-MS | £79,960.00 |
| Scanna Msc Ltd (SME) | ACC101754: Step-on shoe scanner: detecting explosives and weapons by 3D complex permittivity sensing | £71,525.00 |
| Applied Nanodetectors Ltd (micro SME) | ACC101694: Electronic article surveillance system (EASY) | £87,707.00 |
Phase 2: What’s inside that building?
| Organisation and type | Accelerator reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| TNO (large) | ACC500083: Demonstration of radar forward scattering localisation and tracking technology | £251,844.60 |
| Heriot Watt University (academia) | ACC500080: Seeing inside buildings with single photon technology | £167,937.00 |
Detect & Treat Hearing Loss and Tinnitus (Phase 2)
| Organisation and type | Accelerator reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| University College London (Academia) | ACC500093: Towards a Clinical Trial of VSN16R Against Tinnitus in Humans | £190,977.07 |
AI Hackathon
| Organisation and type | Accelerator reference and project title | Contract value |
|---|---|---|
| DIEM Analytics Ltd (Micro SME) | ACC400001: MaLFIE-Machine Learning Fuzzy-logic Integration for Explainability | £95,070.00 |
| Roke Manor Research Ltd (Large) | ACC400003: Automatic Contextual Map Change Detection using Visual Semantics | £108,988.97 |
| BMT Defence and Security UK Limited (Large) | ACC400010: Rapid AI Map | £149,999.92 |