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Defence and Security Accelerator funded contracts: 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2019

Updated 18 October 2023

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Organisation and type Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title Contract value Cycle
University of Southampton (Academic) ACC103163; Printed non-thermal plasma yarn for plasma assisted decontamination of chemical & biological agents £56,675.57 1
University of Nottingham (Academic) ACC107153: Improved magnetic induction tomography for security applications £90,283.79 1
BAE (Large) ACC107161: Disruptive SONAR range enhancement using acoustic metamaterials £89,978.30 1
Atlas Elektronik Ltd (Large) ACC107198: Underwater communications channel estimation £50,628.00 1
Chromacity Ltd (Micro) ACC103419: Novel broadband mid-infrared spectroscopy source for stand-off detection £50,628.00 1
Prometheus (SME) ACC103173: Blast over pressure & impact monitoring in the combat helmet £89,922.00 1
Kaon (SME) ACC103320: Narrowband phase information exploitation £57,610.40 1
Xenint (SME) ACC107183: Novel low cost fully autonomous multi-modal wearable RF sensor £79,425.88 1
Atlas Elektronik Ltd (Large/Prime) ACC107059: reducing operator overload through multi-modal channelization £89,859.99 1
Austin Consultants (SME) ACC107175: detecting illicit devices in properties and automated surveillance of occupants through non-intrusive electrical monitoring £90,450.00 1
University of Liverpool (Academic) ACC107259: Robust and durable InAs avalanche photodiodes for infrared detection £60,853.57 2
Trilateral Research Ltd (Small/Medium) ACC107306: Developing risk assessment methodologies & tools to enable the UK Military response to modern slavery £87,250.00 2
Systems Engineering & Assessment Ltd (Small/Medium) ACC107327: Artificial intelligence for classifying the underwater environment £89,967.58 2
Caledonian Photonics Ltd (Micro) ACC107460: Low Size weight power and cost monolithic lasers for man-portable applications £68,000.00 2
University of Southampton (Academic) ACC107501: Multicore fibre optic gyroscope £71,251.44 2
Cortirio Ltd (Micro) ACC107579: Set-and-forget portable brain imaging for battlespace forwards deployment £86,350.00 2
NSC (Small/Medium) ACC107589: Computerised influence and infrastructure combat model (IICM) for C2 training £89,161.48 2
Roke Manor Research Ltd (Large/Prime) ACC107672: AI behaviour modelling for the alerting of previously unobserved behaviour by resident space objects £89,960.60 2
Silceni Ltd (Micro) ACC107675: Next generation graphene microphones for enhanced acoustic and vibrational sensing £89,620.00 2
Andibee Ltd (Micro) ACC107676: Ultra wideband swarm formation control for GNSS denial navigation £84,073.00 2
NSC (Small/Medium) ACC107599: CARPE - Collaboration augmented reality planning environment £89,412.85 2
Imperial College London (Academic) ACC107203: Covert communications with ultra low-power £152,799.9 2
Smiths Detection (Large/Prime) ACC2001018: Aerosol CWA detector confidence tester £89,948.01 3
DRisQ Ltd (Micro) ACC2003911: Assuring Swarms £89,735.00 3
University of Nottingham (Academic) ACC2000188: STEMulate: Rapid intraoperative genetic augmentation of autograft-derived stem cells during reconstructive surgery of severe trauma £89,669.50 3
Scytronix Ltd (Micro) ACC2001015: Low frequency (<1kHz) electromagnetic radar with centimetric resolution £88,350.00 3
Sensor Driven Ltd (Micro) ACC2003846: Ultra long lifetime covert micro-detectors £88,073.00 3
University of Bath (Academic) ACC2000893: Cycloidal rotorcraft for complex aerodynamic environments £87,525.00 3
Synbiosys (Micro) ACC2001027: 50% lighter, 50% thinner transparent armour through a radically new thermodynamic energy absorption mechanism £86,990.00 3
Cambridge Intelligent Systems UK Ltd (Micro) ACC2000981: Mixed Reality Controls for Armoured Vehicles £83,113.80 3
Space Talos (Micro) ACC2000946: Development of an active shielding for satellites £77,222.00 3
Earthcube (Small/Medium) ACC2001071: Ensemble learning framework research for object and change detection on VHR satellite imagery £87,200.00 3
Queens University Belfast (Academic) ACC2001038: Video-based Semantic Analysis of Crowd Behaviour £272,741 3
University of Southampton (Academic) ACC2003886: Addressable UV displays using pixel saturation £89,962.60 3
University of Sussex (Academic) ACC2004520: Optimised Resonating Free Piston Generator £298,381.99 4
Vedette Consulting Limited (Micro) ACC2004400: Model to Optimise Simulation Mix to Deliver Efficient and Effective Training £76,300.00 4
XPI Simulation (Small/Medium) ACC2004419: IFA007 - CIRRUS - Cloud Infrastructure for Rapid Rendering to Users of Simulation £89,996.00 4
SimCentric Limited (Micro) ACC2004550: IFA007 - A simulation testbed for high fidelity human behaviour within Megacities £88,800.00 4
Lancaster University (Academic) ACC2004475: Novel long-wavelength resonant cavity detectors for chemical agent and explosive material detection systems £148, 190.37 4
Thales UK (Large/Prime) ACC2004317: Thales Wireless Soldier Helmet Link £79,842.01 4
Strathcylde University (Academic) ACC2004102: GNSS based Passive UAV Monitoring System -Emerging Innovation (Defence) £89,998.83 4
Ancon Technologies (Small/Medium) ACC2004403: Integrated aerosol and vapour chemical threat detector £112,957.41 4
HEROTECH8 (Micro) ACC2004487: Releasable-tether multi-rotor UAS mobile docking station £81,940 4
Autonomous Devices Ltd (Micro) ACC2004448: Proteus (MEIR Challenge 2) £89,485 4
Transmedia Storyteller Ltd (Micro) ACC2004371: Hybrid Warfare Rehearsal Tool (IFA007) £87,400 4
University of York (Academic) ACC2004393: AMCA: Assured Mission-Critical Applications for Teams of Unmanned Vehicles £89,695.50 4
Optomel Ltd (Micro) ACC2005346: next generation optical filter technology £58,796.42 5
Advanced Material Development Ltd (Micro) ACC2004631: 2D Graphene Based Coatings for Enhanced Adaptive Camouflage £82,560.00 5
SimCentric Limited (Micro) ACC2005396: IFA006 - RealiT : Wearable Smart Haptic Garment for Simulation and Training £89,500.00 5
Steller Systems Ltd (Small/Medium) ACC2005329: Phase 2 Development of an Autonomous Maritime Vehicle with the Ability to Operate Surfaced and Submerged £84,860.00 5
TWI Ltd (Large/Prime) ACC2005278: High frequency surface wave data transmission on composite laminates (HYFRYDOL) £89,903.25 5
University of Bath (Academic) ACC2005235: Wave Rotor Micro Gas Turbine £89,971.20 5
University of Edinburgh (Academic) ACC2005169: Enamel for transparent armour £88,529.02 5
University of Leicester (Academic) ACC2005337: Allosteric MIP-activators as antidotes for organophosphate intoxication £87,185.14 5
RiskAware Ltd (SME) ACC2006184: EuroSIM Constructive Training System for CBRN incidents £88,683.68 6
Amphibio ltd (Micro SME) ACC2006191: Compact Gill System as Underwater Oxygen Supply £81,100.00 6
University of York (Academia) ACC2006195: ATLAS: Assuring Robustness in Collaborative Autonomous Robots £88,612.49 6
Frazer-Nash Consultancy (Large) ACC2006200: Exploiting Big Geospatial Data £64,992.50 6
University of Strathclyde (Academia) ACC2005889: StrathMag – Marine Quantum Magnetometry £89,940.00 6
Artemis Optical Limited (SME) ACC2006056: GLS: New Infrared Glasses for Multi-band applications £89,839.52 6
Shakey Robotics Innovators Ltd (Micro SME) ACC2006059: Robotic hull cleaner for irregular fragile surfaces £89,750.00 6
Bristol Industrial & Research Associates Ltd (Biral) (SME) ACC2006068: Single Particle Loading for Aerosol Optical Tweezers Analysis £70,378.64 6
University of Southampton (Academia) ACC2005442: CYShadowWatch – Automated Multilingual Information Extraction for Online Cybercrime Sites £133,178.00 6
I C Consultants Ltd (SME) ACC2006203: Damage Tolerant Airframe Design £108,700.00 6

Open Call Rapid Impact

Organisation and type Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title Contract value Cycle
Fluid Mechanics (Micro) ACC107011: Near isothermal Stirling Heat Pump £248,355.00 1
Bright Structures (Micro) ACC107102: Easibridge- next generation troop protection access and mobility systems £77,086.80 1
BAE Systems Applied (Large/Prime) ACC107191: Through-water communications £249,532.26 2
Oxford Space Systems (Small/Medium) ACC2000959: OSS 4 metre wrapped-rib SAR antenna development for space applications £974,752.66 3
Rawwater Engineering Company Ltd (Small/Medium) ACC2001064: Mobile Battle Damage Repair: The “IMP back-pack” £245,481.56 3
Montvieux Limited (Small/Medium) ACC2003918: Autonomous Social Agent based Influence Range (ASAIR) £249,667.77 3
University of Aberdeen (Academic) ACC2004073: Development of an ultra-compact subsea holographic camera for rapid three dimensional imaging and processing of marine organisms and micro-particles £180,000.00 4
University of Strathclyde (Academic) ACC2004343: Accelerating the Pathway to Impact for a Field Deployable Limb Salvage Technology £238,420.88 4
Iceni Labs (Micro SME) ACC2005390: SafeScan: handheld through-cover human presence detector – repurposed from the medical sector £248,400.00 5
Cervus Defence (Micro SME) ACC2006064: Integrated Organisational Learning System £245,596.46 6
Sociedad Europea de Analisis Diferencial de Movilidad S.L. (SME) ACC2006151: Novel System for the Screening of Air Cargo by Vapour Using Fast Chromatography Coupled with Tandem Ion Mobility Spectrometry (HITEX) £175,040.00 6
Securium Ltd (Micro SME) ACC2005967: Tracking Online Dissemination and Manifestation of Content (TODMEC) £276,901.94 6
Polystream (Elektraglide Ltd) (SME) ACC2006094: ‘The cloud in a box’ – providing a distributed cloud capability for defence synthetic environments £214,625.00 6
Envitia Ltd (SME) ACC2006101: Future Modelling and Simulation Common Services Enabler £154,730.00 6
DIEM Analytics Ltd (Micro SME) ACC2006120: MaLFIE phase 2 for exploitation by NMIC & NELSON £220,352.49 6

Finding explosives hidden in electrical items

Track 1 - Low TRL entry (up to TRL 4)

Organisation and type Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title Contract value
Cranfield University (academia) ACC106956: detection of explosive within electronic devices £79,954.00
BAE Systems (large) ACC106959: detection of explosives using gamma spectroscopy - DEGAS £79,511.32
Rapiscan Laboratories, Inc (large) ACC106987: Screening divested objects using dual-energy computed tomography & cherent x-ray scatter £85,804.81
Ancon Technologies Ltd (SME) ACC106989: Alarm resolution through ultrasensitive detection of trace explosives concealed in electrical goods £95,967.00
Durham University (academia) ACC106998: Automated in-situ screening & alarm resolution for varied electronic & electrical items within x-ray security screening £79,357.63
Brunel University (academia) ACC106975: High speed scanning for detecting tampered electrical electronic devices (HISTEED) £75,079.00
Karsa Oy (Micro) ACC106960: Automated explosives vapour detector £76,300.00
NWPRO LTD (SME) ACC106963: Deeper Scan £79,912.00
XPCI Technology Ltd (Micro) ACC106964: Combining x-ay phase contrast imaging & deep learning to detect explosives in electrical items £79,983.75
University of East Anglia (academia) ACC106973: shapes; segmentation & classification of x-ray imagery £79,982.60
Sociedad Europea de Analisis Differencial of Movilidad SL (SME) ACC106977: Tandem DMA system for cabin luggage explosive inspection (TEXION) £79,990.00
Micro-x Ltd (SME) ACC106996: Portable x-ray backscatter imaging system £71,900.00
Scytronix Ltd (Micro) ACC103435: Portable security scanner for the standoff detection of explosives in consumer electronics items £79,750.00
MultiX (SME) ACC106978: Multi-energy based personal electronic device algorithm development £79,860.59

Track 2 - Higher TRL entry (TRL 6 or higher)

Organisation and type Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title Contract value
Rapiscan Laboratories, Inc (large) ACC106986: Detection of concealed explosives using deep learning algorithms £96,902.66
One Resonance Sensors (SME) ACC106967: Compact personal electronic screening system £99,554.94

The Invisible Battlespace

Organisation and type Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title Contract value
DecisionLab (SME) ACC6004485: Challenge 1: A Novel Method for Improved EM Spectrum Exploitation to Enable Improved Military Communications £99,544.00
Blue Bear Systems Research Ltd. (SME) ACC6004396: battlespace (wide area) EM spectrum situation awareness using a fractionated system of multiple coordinated small unmanned aircraft £98,570.00
Blue Bear Systems Research Ltd. (SME) ACC6004577: A communication resilient collaborative £97,165.00
Thales UK (Large) ACC6004424: Use of Artificial Intelligence agents performing goal based adaptation for the dynamic optimisation of countermeasures within a Techniques Generator system £96,744.39
IQHQ (SME) ACC6004567: Chameleon: a distributed concealed & coordinated radio deception technology £96,400.00
Blue Bear Systems Research Ltd (SME) ACC6004561: FrAER Fractionated airborne effects at range £96,105.00
Plextek Services Limited (SME) ACC6003968: Robust, covert and wide-band communications using directional mm-wave radios £94,952.00
Roke Manor Research Limited (Large) ACC6004564: Channel usage protocol identification through expert features and machine learning £94,825.03
Science & technology Facilities Council UKRI (Academic) ACC6004563: Spectral target recognition engine (SPECTRE) £93,118.08
Imperial College London (Academic) ACC6004058: Efficient and Super-resolved Localisation of Needles in an EM Haystack £92,069.48
Xenint Ltd (SME) ACC6004435: Using high order non-linear techniques to see through the dense and contested electro-magnetic fog £91,588.00
University of Hull (Academic) ACC6004509: Peek-a-boo I see you £90,381.62
TransEon Inc. (Micro) ACC6004574: Gallium Oxide MOSFETs for next-generation jamming resisant microwave devices £90,091.20
Rowden Technologies (Micro) ACC6004353: Intelligent Systems for Specific Emitter Identification £88,500.00
Roke Manor Research Limited (large) ACC6004565: Spatial Modulation and Precoding for Protection Against Jamming and Interception £85,346.07
Massive Analytic Ltd. (SME) ACC6004556: AI enabled dynamic spectrum access (DSA) cognitive radio network £84,290.63
C3 Systems Consulting Ltd (Micro) ACC6004421: Electro-magnetic operations knowledge-based battle management aid £78,400.00
Thales UK (Large) ACC6004368: Radar Counter Electronic Warfare Demonstration £75,048.60
Roke Manor Research Limited (Large) ACC6004566: Machine Learning Anti-Jam Applique £74,268.66
Thales UK (Large) ACC6004390: Challenge 1 Find me a channel - Analysis and exploitation of EM spectrum and emitted signals behaviours £71,906.00
Raytheon systems Ltd. (Large) ACC6004534: Wi-fi battlefront £44,089.00
University College London (Academia) ACC6004428: RFSoC Multi-function RF Exploitation £91,060.50

Don’t Blow It! Safely eliminating chemical and biological munitions on the battlefield

Organisation and type Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title Contract Value
Valent Applications Ltd (Micro) ACC6004325: HORNET THERMAL ACCESS & DESTRUCTION SYSTEM £97,740.00
Specialist Response Solutions Ltd (Micro) ACC6004354: Project Mephitis £115,656.00
Mountain Horse Solutions (SME) ACC6004980: Achilles - deployable high throughput chemical munition demilitarization £101,712.00
University of Rhode Island (Academic) ACC6005083: Pyrotechnics Against Threat Hazards (PATH) £127,136.74
Valent Applications Ltd (Micro) ACC6005095: VIPER REMOTE ACCESS SYSTEM £81,617.00
Valent Applications Ltd (Micro) ACC6005096: BAGGER RAPID DISABLE SYSTEM £56,439.00
Mountain Horse Solutions (SME) ACC6005106: Tick-Vampire £114,192.00

Finding explosives hidden in electrical items - Phase 2

Organisation and type Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title Contract Value
Brunel University (Academic) ACC6004450: High Speed Scanning for Detecting Tampered Electrical Electronic Devices (HISTEED 2) £249,611.14
Durham University (Academic) ACC6004437: Extended Component-Wise Anomaly Detection for In-situ Screening of Varied Electronic and Electrical Items within X-ray Security Imagery £124,277.56
BAE (Large) ACC6004938: Detection of Explosives Using Gamma Spectroscopy - DEGAS, Phase 2 £249,750.00
NWPRO (SME) ACC6004947: Deeper Scan £249,593.00
Ancon Technologies (SME) ACC6004635: Alarm resolution through ultra-sensitive explosives detection £242,701.97
MULTIX (SME) ACC6004498: Multi-Energy Automatic Threat Recognition for check point. £262,899.35

Tackling knife crime - detecting steel-bladed knives

Organisation and type Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title Contract Value
Thales UK Ltd (Large) ACC6004967: Radar for Imaging Knives £86,053.40
Security Screening Technologies Ltd (Micro) ACC6004992: Detection of knives at pinch points by a novel method of pulsed induction metal detection £42,800.00
Iconal Technology Ltd (Micro) ACC6005016: Knife detection using electromagnetic and acoustic sensing £60,000.00
Xenint Ltd (SME) ACC6005058: Knife Detection using Real Time Passive Magnetic Sensing £98,939.44
Loughborough University (Academic) ACC6005073: Seeing the invisible: low-cost detection of concealed weapons using covert non-contact infrared thermography and an automated recognition system with active thermal variation £96,152.90
Advanced Nano Technologies & Scientific Ltd (Micro) ACC6005091: Mobile Multi-band Radar Detector for Prohibited Items £79,700.00

Predictive cyber analytics

Organisation and type Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title Contract Value
decisionLab (SME) ACC6004954: Cyber Arms-Race Experimentation: Predicting the Evolution of Cyber Threats and Defence Using Advanced Machine Learning £174,843.00
CyberOwl Ltd (Micro) ACC6004618:Predictive Attribution for Risk-Based Cyber Defence £160,067.39
RiskAware (SME) ACC6004044: Operational CyberspaCe Attack Modelling (OCCAM) £144,353.00
BAE (Large) ACC6004898: Predictive cyber threat analysis and dynamic data collection with formal verification £142,774.46
Montvieux (SME) ACC6004939: Predictive Cyber Analytics Service (PCAS) £121,071.46
University of Southampton (Academic) ACC6004890: Cyber Predictive Intelligence for Asset-based Analytics (CyPrIAAn) £96,300.00
ADSIA (Micro) ACC6004611: A Particle Swarm Model for Agile Cyber Attack Prediction £81,000.00

Airport vehicle checkpoint screening

Organisation and type Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title Contract Value
Risk Reasoning Ltd (SME) ACC6003849: Intelligent Threat Detection in Vehicles (iTDV) £217,013.70
Smiths Detection Ltd (Large) ACC6004021:OmniX £177,300.00
Plextek Services Ltd (SME) ACC6000973 : Handheld radar for hidden object detection £107,826.00
Roke Manor Research Limited (Large) ACC6004100: Coherent anti-stokes Raman spectroscopy & machine learning for explosive trace detection £96,869.14
Karsa Oy (Micro) ACC6003856: Sniffing threats in vehicles £80,104.65
Plextek Services Ltd (SME) ACC6000936: Rapid engine compartment inspection £76,539.00
University College London (Academic) ACC6003862: Vehicle Checkpoint with Atomic Magnetometers (VECAM) £51,125.28

Autonomous last mile resupply - Phase 2

Organisation and type Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title Contract Value
QinetiQ (Large) ACC500260: METIS advanced end-to-end solution for autonomous resupply £1,270,899.91
HORIBA MIRA (Large) ACC500254: AI based UGV system with advanced terrain perception routeing semantic low bandwidth C2 & REARM logistics for ALMRS £699,930.17
Animal Dynamics (SME) ACC500252: Stork150 powered paraglider ALMR system £697,825.00
Barnard Microsystems (SME) ACC500257:A UAV based logistics capability for use in military & civilian missions £687,469.00
Fleetonomy (Micro) ACC500236:project workhouse: autonomous last mile deliveries as-a -service solution utilising military-grade mesh communications £479,450.00

Biosensing across wide areas

Organisation and type Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title Contract Value
Liverpool John Moores University (Academic) ACC6003948: Novel electromagnetic sensor for the non-destructive, rapid detection of hazardous biological material £150,000.00
INO (Academic) ACC6004431: Biosensing across wide areas using LED induced fluorescence £150,000.00
Politecnico di Milano (Academic) ACC6003996: A compact fibre-laser-based system for detection of hazardous biological agents via coherent Raman spectroscopy £149,900.00
Camlin Technologies Ltd (Large) ACC6004320: FARSIGHT: Fast Area Real-time Scanning for Hazardous materials £149,322.00
Pendar Technologies (SME) ACC6004903: Eyesafe Biosensing and Dispersal Imaging £125,425.25
Frauhofer UK Research Ltd (SME) ACC6004398: Time-resolved, stand-off Raman detection for Biosensing across wide areas £124,080.00
University of York (Academic) ACC6004562: Biosensing with 2D-IR spectroscopy £108,069.26

Improving crowd resilience - Phase 2

Organisation and type Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title Contract Value
University of Southampton (Academic) ACC6000166: We’re in this together - using evidence based visual perception to enhance crowd resilience £203,566.75
Create Technologies Ltd (SME) ACC6000153: SLATE crowd monitoring & alerts (SLATE_CMA) £198,885.31

Metasurfaces for defence and security

Organisation and type Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title Contract Value
Heriot Watt University (Academic) ACC6003961 : Metasurfaces A-La-Carte Using Phase Change Vanadium Dioxide £100,000.00
Imperial College London (Academic) ACC6004006: Metasurface Retro-reflectors £99,585.00
QinetiQ (Large) ACC6004304: Rapid deployment or large scale manufacturing of N-layered metasurfaces through kinetic spray deposition and lasing £50,604.73
University of Birmingham (Academic) ACC6004134:Integrated Microwave and Electro-Optical Emissivity Control Metasurface £98,448.72
Malvern Optical Limited (SME) ACC6003971:Self-assembly of colour-tuneable metasurfaces £88,351.56
University of St Andrews (Academic) ACC6004053: Flexible holographic metasurface patches for mm-wave applications £86,186.98
Hooley Research Ltd (Micro) ACC6004301:Reconfigurable Metasurface for Microwave Beamforming £79,440.00
QinetiQ (Large) ACC6004302: Controlling the self-assembly of core-shell nanoparticles through block copolymer interactions £74,818.36
University of Southampton (Academic) ACC6003954: Multispectral meta-surfaces using embedded metal oxide plasmonics (MULTIMETA) £68,211.27
University of St Andrews (Academic) ACC6004047:Nonlinear beam steering for LIDAR applications £66,405.18
University of Sheffield (Academic) ACC6004046 : Surface wave transmission on meta-material inspired transmission lines £50,800.00
University of Sheffield (Academic) ACC6004126 : Evaluation of printed conducting textiles for meta-surfaces £20,500.00

Regenerative medicine at the front line

Organisation and type Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title Contract Value
University of Bristol (Academic) ACC107093: Engineered red blood cells with enhanced compatibility and storage properties £100,000.00
University of Birmingham (Academic) ACC107055: Portable PHOTOtherapy devices for maintaining tissue viability and accelerated wound repair (PHOTOREP) £99,651.84
University of Nottingham (Academic) ACC107252: ReGENErate : promoting regeneration and preventing soft-tissue loss at the front-line using topical gene therapy and NPWT £97,305.75
Plasticell Ltd (SME) ACC107321 : Production of bioengineered platelets for regenerative therapies £89,654.00
University of Birmingham (Academic) ACC107328: Engineering of platelet enhanced plasma for the treatment of traumatic bleeding and coagulopathy £78,036.44

Stopping it in its tracks

Organisation and type Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title Contract Value
Imperial College London (Academic) ACC6004994: Smart Tetsubishi £125,930.00
Synbiosys Ltd (Micro) ACC6004991: NOLED – NOn-Lethal Entanglement Device £124,950.00
Autonomous Devices Ltd (Micro) ACC6004979: Cerberus £114,650.00
Azur Innovation Limited (Micro) ACC6004900: Composite Obscurant and Soft Kill (COSK) £82,774.00

Synthetic biology for transparent materials - phase 2

Organisation and type Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title Contract Value
Swansea University (Academic) ACC500276: Phase II Development of a synbio-inspired composite adhesive for transparent defence materials £149,999.99
Imperial College London (Academic) ACC500273: Optically transparent armour v2.0: impact modified acrylic composites reinforced with hornified bacterial cellulose pellicles £149,931.21
Edinburgh University (Academic) ACC500277: Nanoscale Engineering of Anti-Glint Materials using Synthetic Biology and Protein Design £149,610.02

’Take Cover!’ Lightweight rapidly deployable protection on the front-line through Field Fortifications

Organisation and type Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title Contract Value
Williams Advanced Engineering Limited (Large) ACC6004133: 223™ - An advanced composite fulcrum technology enabling modular and rapidly deployable structures on the battlefield £119,815.00
Prodrive (SME) ACC6004010: Quick-Deploying and Modular Barrier (Q-DAMB) £115,671.03
Conventive Composites (SME) ACC6004106: ARCH - Advanced Reinforced Composite Haven £98,650.00
Synbiosys Ltd (Micro) ACC6004051: Challenge 2 - Fold-safe: Foldable origami-inspired structures for rapidly deployable in-field fortifications £97,574.00
IC2 Feeniks (SME) ACC6004555: Super Absorbent Gel based Fragmentation and Blast Protection £87,170.00
QinetiQ Ltd (Large) ACC6004609: QinetiQ Ltd’s DASA Competition Proposal Submission - Inflatable, Lightweight Armour Structure £79,560.20

Beyond battery power - phase 2

Organisation and type Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title Contract Value
University College London (Academic) ACC500234: ADAPT - ammonia fuel cell systems for defence applications phase 2 £237,181.88
Artec Vida Ltd (previously Mansion Ecopartners Ltd) (Micro) ACC500239: Ranger powerpack TRL6 development £249,427.50

Wearable Technology for Injury Prevention

Organisation and type Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title Contract Value
University of Chichester (Academic) ACC6005470: A Physical Activity Capture & Evaluation System (PACES) to Inform Musculoskeletal Injury (MSKI) Prevention Strategies in Service Personnel £98,068.00
Inova Design Solutions Ltd (SME) ACC6005434: Bodytrak: Proprietary sensor hardware and predictive analytics to prevent heat illness £98,715.24
Plextek Services Limited (SME) ACC6005481: Early Detection and Prevention of Hearing Loss £99,984.00
Loughborough University (Academic) ACC6005512: Wearable and Nearable Sensor Technologies for Analytics-Based MSKi Prevention £99,852.79
Frazer-Nash Consultancy (Large) ACC6005356:Wearable tech – electronics £100,000.00
SimCentric Limited (Micro) ACC6005781: SmartTrainer - An adaptive framework for learning and monitoring physical activity in real-time for Injury Prevention £95,375.00
Liverpool John Moores University (Academic) ACC6005820: Defence against overload: smart insoles to monitor and feedback the risk of lower limb injury £98,150.00
Amphibian Technologies Limited (Micro) ACC6005792: Wearable to analyse lower leg injury risk due to overuse £46,950.00

Many Drones Phase 3

Organisation and type Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title Contract Value
Blue Bear Systems Research Ltd (SME) ACC6004970: Fractionated effect delivery, equipment, test and evaluation (FEDEXTE) £2,499,999

Behavioural Analytics

Organisation and type Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title Contract Value
RAND Europe (Large) ACC6004907:Human-machine detection of online disinformation £99,996.74
University of Exeter (Academic) ACC6004966:Augmented reality as a tool for cognitive debiasing £68,567.50
Cranfield University (Academic) ACC6004974: Human vulnerabilities in the face of cognitive hacking: An analytical process method £50,720.92
University of Abertay (Academic) ACC6005035: Validating non-verbal indicators of interaction partners’ emotion and rapport to predict communicative behaviour in a defence and security context Dundee £99,570.16
University of Gloucestershire (Academic) ACC6005110:OpenMind: Neural network analysis of brain activity underpinning information processing and situation awareness £99,927.00
Lancaster University (Academic) ACC6005115:Nonverbal Analytics to make Subconscious Trust Judgements Accessible (NASTA) £97,046.48
Dundee University (Academic) ACC6005123:Dialogical Fingerprinting £94,498.34
J2S Consulting Ltd (Micro) ACC6005086: SimCAST - Behavioural Data Simulation £62,450.00
Affect in Ltd (Micro) ACC6005112: Augmenting Behavioural Analytics using a Brain Computer Interface £94,990.00
Liopa Ltd (Micro) ACC6005113: Speech Analytics system for use in analysis of CCTV footage £97,750.00
Amarna Ltd (Micro) ACC6005134: Dark age theory as a comprehensive, abstract and general purpose framework for behavioural analytics £30,080.00
Amarna Ltd (Micro) ACC6005137: Power law metrics for behavioural analytics £11,980.00
DIEM Analytics Ltd (Micro) ACC6005147: DIGAR: Dynamic Information Generation Algorithm for Rare-events £96,054.00
Frazer-Nash Consultancy (Large) ACC6005157: Risky Shifts: detecting changes from baseline, at scale £98,400.00
Illumr Ltd (Micro) ACC6005164: illumr augmented cognition £99,000.00
DIEM Analytics Ltd (Micro) ACC6005177: Reducing ‘Influence Damage’ by exploiting news and social media to predict behaviours that would affect the outcome of an operation £65,522.00
DIEM Analytics Ltd(Micro) ACC6005186: J S BACH: Judging Subjective data using Behavioural Analytics outputs Converted into Harmonies £98,952.00
CGA Simulation (Micro) ACC6005212: PRIA - Personally Responsive Information Analysis £99,933.60
J2S Consulting Ltd (Micro) ACC6005233: MADE YOU LOOK! Adaptive Security Information Campaigns £97,450.00
University of Warwick (Academic) ACC6005162: Unstable Behaviour on the Edge of Communities £99,316.53
Steersman Systems Ltd (Micro) ACC6005190: Q-analysis Methodology for Behavioural Analytics £69,617.00
BAE Systems Applied Intelligence Ltd (Large) ACC6005198: Predicting Cognitive Workload from Physiological Data £99,829.52
Roke Manor Research Limited (Large) ACC6005215: Inference of Back Channels of Communication from Online Data through Machine Learning £53,534.29
Intelligent Ontologies (Micro) ACC6005225: HuMIDOR: Human - Machine Intelligent Decisions for Operational Research £31,370.00
TRIMETIS Ltd (Micro) ACC6005240: Intelligent insight: Harnessing human behaviour models to drive data analytics £98,950.00
QinetiQ Ltd (Large) ACC6005242: QinetiQ Ltd DASA Proposal - Predicting the descent into extremism and terrorism £99,896.89
QinetiQ Ltd (Large) ACC6005244: QinetiQ Ltd DASA Proposal - ‘Intelligent’ predictive behavioural nudging for military influence £99,191.60
MASS Consultants Ltd (Large) ACC6005245: Behaviour analytics for defence and security £79,740.00

Capability Proving

Organisation and type Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title Contract Value
QinetiQ (Large) ACC6000184: Software Defined Multifunction LIDAR for HAPS - Operational Capability Demonstrator £2,000,000.00
Close Air Solutions Ltd (SME) ACC6000210: Hyper Real Immersion £1,032,256.00
Polaris Consulting Ltd (SME) ACC6000208: AntsOnDeck - an extensible platform agnostic autonomous route optimisation system £935,847.00
HORIBA MIRA (Large) ACC6000209: Navigation, Localisation and Perception using Deep Learning Neural Networks £845,418.33

Defence People Innovation Challenge Track 1 Phase 1

Organisation and type Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title Contract Value
QinetiQ (Large) ACC107611: Gamification for recruitment Find-Catch-Keep £248,645.50
Daden Ltd (Micro) ACC107397: Virtual Life Coach £247,720.00
University of Kent (Academic) ACC107498: Brain-endurance training to improve soldier training resistance to fatigue & multi-tasking £222,129.72
Affect In Ltd (Micro) ACC107618: Tracking expertise during training £189,890.00
QinetiQ (Large) ACC107643: Transforming employee engagement through the provision of real-time data £123,163.17
Trimetis Ltd (Micro) ACC107646: Enhancing cognitive skill through structured self-re-flection: a decision-centred approach to learning from experience £89,135.00
DIEM Analytics Ltd (Micro) ACC107656: Dynamically up-dated chatbot for extracting summaries & system understanding (DUCHESS) £90,620.50

Defence People Innovation Challenge Track 2 Phase 1

Organisation and type Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title Contract Value
STS Defence Ltd (SME) ACC107551: Maritime multimedia for training at sea (MMM-T@S) £148,939.76
SecureCloud+ (SME) ACC107505: Digital learning networked collaboration service £121,550.00

Revolutionise the human Information relationship for Defence - Standard Phase 2

Organisation and type Defence and Security Accelerator reference and project title Contract Value
Thales UK (Large) ACC500174: Advanced situational awareness for AFV crew phase 2 £480,540.00
Aleph Insights Ltd (Micro) ACC500205: Adaptive report generation assistant £398,232.41
HORIBA MIRA (Large) ACC500217: A novel simulation approach for training artificial intelligence software agents in the defence context £395,786.02
Montvieux (SME) ACC500228: Machine learning analytics training as a service MLAAAS £384,741.53