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Delivering Future Advantage Through Testing and Evaluation: Competition Document

Updated 26 November 2025

1. Introduction

This Defence and Security Accelerator, part of UK Defence Innovation (UKDI-DASA) themed competition is focusing on proposals that present innovative/novel solutions for development of deployable Test and Evaluation (T&E) capabilities and the development of regulatory solutions (process or technology), ensuring that our T&E enterprise becomes and remains innovative by instinct.

2. Competition key information

Key Information	Competition Details
Submission deadline	12:00 Midday on 20 January 2026 (GMT)
Total funding available	£1 million (excluding VAT) split across both challenges. A number of proposals may be funded. We are expecting proposals to be in the region of £250,000
Challenge Areas	Development of Deployable/Mobile Test and Evaluation Capability                                                                                     Development of Regulatory Solutions
Technology Readiness Level (TRL)	Ending at TRL 6
Contract start month	Aim to start April 2026
Project duration	Equal to or less than 11 months
Cyber Risk Assessment (CRA) number and risk level	RAR-251105B17, Very Low Risk
Feedback release date	6 March 2026
Pre-sift criteria	See Section 8 Pre-sift Criteria

2.1 Competition Specific Requirements

Please note that this competition has specific deliverables as part of its pre-sift criteria. Only those proposals that demonstrate compliance with the UKDI-DASA pre-sift criteria will be taken forward to full assessment. In particular, you must agree to support the preparation of press packs/publicity material based on your work at the end of your project. For the full list of criteria, please see Section 8.

2.2 Where do I submit my proposal?

Via the UKDI-DASA Online Submission Service where you will need to register for an account. Only proposals submitted through the UKDI-DASA Online Submission Service will be accepted.

2.3 Public facing information

When submitting your proposal, you will be required to include a title, Proposal Value Proposition Statement (PVPS) and a short abstract. The title, PVPS and abstract you provide will be used by UKDI-DASA, and Partners Across Government (PAG), to describe your project and its intended outcomes and benefits. They may be included at UKDI-DASA events in relation to this competition and in documentation such as brochures. As this information can be shared, it should not contain information that may compromise Intellectual Property.

2.4 Further guidance

For further guidance on what to expect during the submission process and how your proposal will be assessed, please see the following GOV.UK pages and forms:

• Submit a proposal
• Assessment process and criteria
• Defence and Security Accelerator: ethical, legal and regulatory guidance
• MODREC Guidance for Suppliers
• Competition Terms and Conditions
• UKDI-DASA Standard Terms and Conditions
• Supplier Assurance Questionnaire (SAQ)
• How to get in touch with your local Innovation Partner

3. Supporting activities

3.1 Launch webinar

On 19 November 2025, DASA held a launch webinar to provide further detail on the problem space and a chance to ask questions in an open forum.

Delivering Future Advantage: Webinar

3.2 One-to-Ones

2 December 2025 – A series of 15 minute one-to-one teleconference sessions, giving you the opportunity to ask specific technical questions to the competition team in a closed forum. Registration for these sessions will be available the day after the launch webinar on 19 November 2025, on the Eventbrite page. Booking will be on a first come first served basis.

Non-technical questions about the competition process should be sent to the UKDI-DASA Help Centre, accelerator@dstl.gov.uk.

3.3 Collaboration survey

We encourage collaboration between innovators for this competition. To support this, we have a short survey to collect details of those who wish to explore collaboration possibilities. If you are interested, please complete the collaboration Survey.

The information (including personal details) you provide will be circulated among the innovators who have completed the survey. The sharing of details will only be done after an initial screening process has taken place; we reserve the right to not share all details.

All collaboration for proposal submissions is on an innovator-innovator basis. It is the innovators’ responsibility to determine the suitability of collaborators.

Inclusion or absence of collaboration will not affect assessment.

3.4 Innovation Outline

If you are uncertain of the relevance of your innovation, it is strongly recommended that you contact your local UKDI-DASA Innovation Partner to discuss your idea. You can initiate this through the submission of a Contact UKDI-DASA Form by following instructions on the Contact a UKDI-DASA Innovation Partner page if you do not already have an established relationship with your local Innovation Partner.

Your local Innovation Partner will initially explore the suitability of your idea within the context of the requirements of the competition. With specific interest in the aspects covered within the Competition Scope section.

Your local Innovation Partner will, if required, also advise you on the submission of an Innovation Outline (IO), primarily used to further explore the relevance of your idea to the competition.

You must submit this IO through the Submission Service regardless of an established relationship with your local Innovation Partner.

To submit an IO:

• log in to the submission service
• select the service category UKDI-DASA Innovation Outline
• from the service name select Innovation Outline: Delivering Future Advantage Through Testing and Evaluation
• complete the form

Your local Innovation Partner will be able to advise you on the IO content.

Submission of an IO for this competition will allow socialisation of the idea across the competition team, all elements of the IO will be shared. The competition team is made up of UKDI-DASA and Dstl staff and Military experts across MOD. You should receive a response within two weeks, confirming whether or not your idea is in scope. The competition closes at 12:00 Midday on 20 January 2026 (GMT). Owing to the Christmas and New Year periods UKDI-DASA cannot guarantee a response to an IO received after 19 December 2025.

All information you provide to us as part of your IO, that is not already available to us from other sources, will be handled in confidence. We will only share the information with those who can establish if your innovation is within scope of the competition. The information will only be used for the purposes for which it is provided to us. It won’t be used for other purposes, without us having obtained the necessary rights and permissions to do so.

Submitting an IO or speaking to your local innovation partner is not a mandatory criteria of this competition.

4. Competition scope

4.1 Background

In 2020, the MOD launched the Test and Evaluation (T&E) Transformation Programme to modernise the Defence T&E enterprise by 2030. This Programme exists to ensure Defence can assure capabilities and technologies at the pace of relevance. The Programme sets out the ideas shaping the future of T&E and the enablers required to deliver the change in the T&E 2030 Concept: Future Advantage through Evaluation.

As part of this initiative, in 2023 the T&E Transformation Programme launched an innovation fund to support T&E change-makers across the enterprise in exploring, and adopting new ways of thinking about, conducting and exploiting T&E.

The fund is now looking to expand that support to harness industrial innovation within T&E through a Themed Competition. The fund aims to have a series of themed competitions (one competition every financial year FY) up until 2028. Each themed competition will have a different focus area.

The Programme defines T&E as the disciplined collection and analysis of evidence about the behaviour and performance of a system, used to understand, improve, and assure systems as safe and fit for purpose.

MOD and Industry test military equipment and evaluate the results to evidence how equipment performs under operationally representative conditions. We do this to help ensure our equipment is fit for purpose, developed and operated safely, and capable of reliably contributing to the success of military operations.

The scale and diversity of the MOD’s equipment programme means the defence enterprise must conduct a wide variety of T&E.

Organisations across defence are responding with forward-thinking initiatives, which will need to be coordinated to maximise their benefit and enable us to conduct T&E into the 2030s addressing any new risks that may materialise.

4.2 Scope

This Themed Competition has two challenge areas to identify innovators with novel ideas to support development of deployable T&E capability and regulatory solutions (technology or process). 

All proposals must have a clear link to T&E, articulating the benefit to Defence and T&E of pursuing the idea.

All projects must complete within 11 months of contracting and finish by 31 March 2027.

5. Competition challenges

This competition has 2 challenges.

5.1 Challenge 1: Development of Deployable/Mobile T&E Capability

Context:

T&E has significant potential to equip the UK with battle winning insight by helping us explore and capture the boundaries of Battlefield performance. Given the drivers for change articulated in FATE, a key enabler to providing advantage will be the ability to carry out blended test (both virtual and live test) of systems in operationally relevant environments, either in training, on exercises or in operations.

Testing systems in the field, either while systems are being used on training, exercises or operations, is another currently underutilised enabler of CLEAR (Collaborative, lifelong, efficient, actionable and realistic) T&E. Combining and comparing data already collected by capabilities onboard systems with objective evidence from deployed T&E capabilities could improve our understanding of performance, add value to exercises and training by enabling appropriate data capture and analysis, and, in some cases, allow longer or more effective sustainability on operations.

For this challenge, the T&E Transformation programme seeks innovative ideas that enable the test equipment to be brought to the Military capability/system requiring test, i.e. bringing the range to the capability rather than the capability to the range. 

Problem set:

UK and international T&E facilities are often at capacity. Returning military platforms to these sites for necessary testing removes them from operation for extended periods. This results in capability programmes waiting for long periods before tests can be conducted, impacting the rate at which the capability is delivered. The increase in the pace of technology development and iteration, necessitates a new approach to T&E in order to test more often and more quickly to ensure operational effectiveness.

To try to address this, test activities are frequently conducted in remote regions, where connectivity is poor, infrastructure is lacking, and on ranges that are not suited to high end data capture.

Therefore, we are looking for solutions that:

• enable us to test in austere regions with the help of deployable T&E equipment/capabilities that allow high fidelity testing and the capture of appropriate evidence for the systems under test.
• enable us to take the range to the capability so that platforms can be sustained on operations for greater periods of time. This real time test data could also give us vital information on performance of the system while deployed whilst providing the benefit of increased platform availability and allowing longer more effective sustainability on operations.

The deployable T&E solution proposed can be for any test use case, although proposals that provide multi-domain utility will be prioritised.

Examples of solutions:

Solutions that have been funded through previous iterations of this challenge are depicted below:

• Development of modular, deployable vehicles to allow trials teams to have the connectivity, sensors and working conditions to gather accurate and effective data at the pace required to support the front line. These deployable vehicles will also be able to take T&E closer to, or even into operational theatres (where the UK has no fixed T&E infrastructure) to allow operationally representative T&E to be conducted in real time.
• Development of a Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (UAV) borne pay load, which acts as a stimulator to test the performance of Electronic Support Measure (ESM) systems enabling the Navy to assure performance of persistently deployed ESM systems fitted to ships and submarines. This development in an increasingly complex and congested electromagnetic environments in which platforms operate, places greater demands on understanding and optimising the performance and assurance of fitted and future system during operations. Illustrating the advantage deployable T&E capability can provide by enabling Military capability to be more available to the war fighter, more quickly, more often and for longer.

Where proposals received exceed the funding available, prioritisation decisions will be made based on utility of the innovation across multiple domains or for those proposals that have pan-domain benefit.

5.2 Challenge 2: Development of technological or process solutions that increase pace of assurance for military capability. 

Context:

The rate at which we now need to develop equipment, exploit new technology and adapt to battlefield lessons, exceeds our capacity given the current approach to T&E. Given the rapid exploitation of technology into military capability, coupled with the increasing pace of acquisition, the T&E Transformation programme seeks to identify solutions that aid the assurance of military capability enabling technology to be deployed more quickly.

Problem set:

The pace at which we develop military capability, exploiting new technology within it currently exceeds what our current approach to T&E can support. New approaches to building and demonstrating evidence for assurance of test activities, especially on novel capabilities with short development cycles, is required to ensure the MOD delivers Military capability at the pace of relevance.

Assurance activities often occur at the end of the capability development life cycle. This can result in Defence losing vital information through the development cycle which could inform capability design and development decisions, especially if that technology and how it is used in operations, is constantly evolving. Through engagement with the appropriate regulatory party, continuous assurance throughout the development lifecycle and conducting T&E activities at the beginning of the capability development life cycle, we can utilise the information to shape capability development and meet the assurance requirements.

With rapid technology exploitation, coupled with novel systems often unable to be tested in the constraints of established T&E capabilities, there is a need to carry out tests in places other than large, regulated ranges, requiring development of technological or process solutions to assurance which will satisfy the safety regulator.

With a more integrated force and rapid technological development, there are capabilities that can provide utility in multiple domains, operational contexts or environments. However, these require assurance to ensure they can be exploited within a diverse environment.

Therefore, we are looking for solutions (technological or process) that enable:

• testing across the capability development life cycle.
• support the revalidation and assurance of capabilities at speed of relevance
• provide the necessary assurance required by the safety regulator.

Examples of solutions:

Solutions that have been funded through previous iterations of this challenge are depicted below:

Development of a highly assured Flight Termination System (FTS) for uncrewed air system giving us the necessary assurance in test and operation that we can deploy our system reliably. Given how ubiquitous the integration of drones will be in the future force we need to carry out tests in places other than large, regulated ranges. This means satisfying the safety regulator a different way, and the FTS is the solution to this. It has been deliberately designed to be independent to the system under test, and modular so it can be applied to a wide variety of different systems. A small, effective and affordable FTS is our best guarantee that UAS under test can be grounded before leaving the test area and will allow us to carry out tests in environments not normally capable of such activity.

The development of an AI Test, Evaluation and Assurance (TEA) platform that aims to efficiently revalidate AI components when they are deployed in a new or changing context and can be adapted to complex use cases involving multiple AI models, using a system driven TEA approach. Hence the deployment of a practical evaluation framework capable of assessing AI components under realistic operational scenarios, significantly reducing the technical complexity and resource demands traditionally associated with such tasks and aiding the assurance of military capabilities including AI technologies.

Should the competition receive more proposals than funding available, prioritisation decisions will be made in collaboration with appropriate Defence regulators with priority given to key challenges and where the innovation supports a multi-domain solution

5.3 Exploitation

The outcomes of your proposal may be exploited through one or more of the following, depending on the nature of the advance made and the challenge and domain to which the work is directed:

• further development through T&E Transformation programme to scale up the innovation across Defence (See note below on Range of the Future).
• incorporation into the MOD T&E centralised provision (if pan-domain)
• exploitation through a focused MOD unit or Front-Line Command (if single domain)

To improve the long-term productivity and capacity of both MOD and commercially operated UK test ranges, The T&E Transformation Programme is launching a ‘Range of the Future’ project at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory. MOD will work with SMEs, range operators and regulators to derisk T&E technology and make ranges more available, affordable, and capable of supporting the next generation of Defence capability. The project team may look to leverage successful proposals for exploitation through this project. 

The MOD T&E Transformation Programme will be creating case studies and press packs to showcase funded projects. Successful proposers are expected to support the MOD T&E Transformation Programme and supporting bodies to deliver case studies and communication materials (i.e. press packs and possible interviews) as part of their end of project activity. Successful suppliers should invite the customer team to any relevant demonstrations and project meetings.

5.4 We are interested in…

Novel ideas that provide benefit to end-users working in defence. Your proposal should include evidence of:

• a clear link to T&E, articulating the benefit to Defence and T&E of pursuing the idea
• a clear plan for future development and scaling, including engagement and compliance with any applicable regulatory requirements
• proposed work that will deliver at TRL6 at the end of the contract including any planned demonstrations in the proposal
• the potential for your innovation to be translated into a practical demonstration in the future
• innovation or a creative approach
• how the proposed work applies in a defence context
• key user and beneficiaries of the innovation, if/when exploited
• delivery within 11 months of contracting

5.5 We are not interested in…

We are not interested in proposals that:

• constitute consultancy, paper-based studies or literature reviews which just summarise the existing literature without any view of future innovation
• are an unsolicited resubmission of a previous UKDI-DASA bid
• offer demonstrations of off-the-shelf products requiring no experimental development (unless applied in a novel way to the challenge)
• offer no real long-term prospect of integration into defence capabilities
• offer no real prospect of out-competing existing technological solutions
• are maintenance or repair of existing test facilities or cover enduring capability costs
• are like for like replacement of T&E equipment or present no innovation
• subsidise existing T&E services
• have delivery plans longer than 11 months
• request support to only undertake T&E of deployable capability (i.e. assuring already developed capability). Proposals including development of deployable capability with T&E activities as an element of the project will be considered.
• relate to medical T&E, nuclear T&E, additive manufacturing, or training

6. Critical elements to include

When writing your proposal, ensure you have:

• focused on the Competition requirements but also included a brief (un-costed) outline of the next stages of work required for exploitation
• included a list of other government funding you have received in this area. Making it clear how this proposal differs from that work
• included a detailed project plan with clear milestones and deliverables. Deliverables need to be well defined and designed to provide evidence of progress against the project plan. Your deliverables must include a written final report and where possible a demonstration or stakeholder day to showcase the innovation
• planned (and costed) attendance at the following meetings, which will all be in the UK.
  • A kick off meeting at the start of the project
  • A mid project meeting (in person or virtual) to showcase progress to date
  • An end of project meeting summarising project, learning and next steps.
  • Regular reviews with the appointed Technical partner and project manager at least once a month.

(Meetings may take place virtually. Slides presented at these meetings should be appropriately marked and made available.)

• committed to support production of communication materials (to be agreed at kick off) in support of developing a press pack
• clearly articulated assumptions, risks and dependencies associated to the delivery plan.
• identified any ethical / legal / regulatory factors. Associated risks should have been added to the Risk Register in Step 5 of the submission service along with details of how they will be managed, including break points in the project if approvals are not received
• detailed any requirements for access to Government Furnished X (GFX). GFX is the preferred nondescript term for anything that the Government provides in which the ‘X’ could be artefacts such as information or equipment. UKDI-DASA cannot guarantee that GFX will be made available. You should have included an alternative plan in your proposal in case it is not available.
• considered costs for testing the deployable capability and continuous testing across the development (Challenge 1 only).

7. Accelerating and exploiting your innovation

Ensure your deliverables are designed with the aim of making it as easy as possible for assessors to recognise expected development in technology maturity of the potential solution over the lifetime of the project. Specifically, how this demonstrates improved capability against the current known (or presumed) solutions.

Over the lifetime of UKDI-DASA awarded projects, ideas may mature and accelerate under the guidance of appropriate stakeholders, toward being functional capabilities. How long this takes, and how far towards a deployable capability the innovations progress, will depend on any future exploitation after the completion of the UKDI-DASA project.

Low TRL research and development may not be able to articulate exploitation in great detail, but it should be clear that there is credible advantage to be gained from the technology development.

7.1 Exploitation beyond your project plan

Include the following information within the Desirability question within the UKDI-DASA Online Submission Service application form to help the assessors understand your exploitation intentions:

• expected additional work required beyond the end of the contract to develop an operationally deployable commercial product (for example, “scaling up” for manufacture, cyber security, integration with existing technologies, environmental operating conditions)
• additional future applications and wider markets for exploitation
• wider collaborations and networks you have already developed or any additional relationships you see as a requirement to support exploitation
• how your product could be tested in a representative environment in later phases
• any specific legal, ethical, commercial or regulatory considerations for exploitation

8. Pre-sift Criteria

Before your proposal is assessed, all proposals will be checked for compliance with the UKDI-DASA pre-sift criteria. Proposals will be rejected before full assessment if they do not comply.

For more information on how your proposal will be assessed please read Assessment process and criteria.

Delivering Future Advantage Through Evaluation pre-sift criteria are as follows:

Criteria	Measure - Within scope (Pass) / Out of scope (Fail)
The proposal outlines how it meets the scope of the competition	Pass / Fail
The proposal explains how it meets the UKDI-DASA criteria (Desirability, Feasibility, and Viability) in the relevant questions in Step 3 of the submission service	Pass / Fail
The proposal must contain a financial plan, a project plan and a resourcing plan which demonstrate how the work proposed will be completed	Pass / Fail
The delivery schedule within your proposal includes evidence of a written final report	Pass / Fail
The delivery schedule within your proposal includes evidence of a demonstration with appropriate costs factored in	Pass / Fail
Maximum value of proposal is £1,000,000	Pass / Fail
Your proposal commits to support preparation of communication material	Pass / Fail
The final deliverable month indicated must be less than or equal to 11 months from T0 where T0 is the project start date agreed by both parties	Pass / Fail
TRL 6 by the end of the contract	Pass / Fail
The proposal does not contain attachments that have been used for additional text data over the stated word counts in Desirability, Feasibility, Viability and Additional Information	Pass / Fail
If a resubmission of a previous proposal it adheres to the resubmission guidelines	Pass / Fail

9. How your proposal will be assessed

Proposals that are compliant will be assessed against the standard UKDI-DASA assessment criteria (Desirability, Feasibility and Viability) by subject matter experts from the MOD (including Dstl) and the front-line military commands. You will not have the opportunity to view or comment on assessors’ recommendations.

UKDI-DASA reserves the right to disclose on a confidential basis any information it receives from innovators during the procurement process, which includes the full proposal, to any third party engaged by UKDI-DASA for the specific purpose of evaluating or assisting UKDI-DASA in the evaluation of your proposal. In providing such information you consent to such disclosure. Appropriate confidentiality agreements will be put in place.

After assessment, proposals will be discussed at a Decision Conference where funding decisions are made based on the assessments, budget and wider strategic considerations.

Innovators are not permitted to attend the Decision Conference.

10. UKDI-DASA Terms and Conditions

Please read the UKDI-DASA Terms and Conditions which contain important information for innovators. For this competition we will be using the Innovation Standard Contract (ISC), Terms and Conditions. Information on the relevant DEFCONs can be found by registering on the Knowledge in Defence site.

We require unqualified acceptance of the Terms and Conditions. Where innovator organisations have a commercial department they will need to provide acceptance.

We will use deliverables from UKDI-DASA contracts in accordance with our rights detailed in the contract Terms and Conditions.

10.1 Feedback

Proposals that are unsuccessful will receive feedback in the form of bullet points and a couple of short paragraphs after the Decision Conference.

Where a proposal meets the fundable requirements for a competition, but is not funded, UKDI-DASA will continue to seek funding and shall consider your proposal fundable for 12 months from the date of the feedback release.

We will share the abstract, Proposal Value Proposition Statement (PVPS) and title of your proposal with partners across His Majesty’s Government that may express an interest in funding the proposal through UKDI-DASA, in accordance with the competition document. If partners across His Majesty’s Government wish to read the full proposal to decide if they will fund it, we will share the full proposal with them without seeking your permission if it is within 60 days of the feedback release date. If it is over 60 days since the feedback release date we will seek your permission before sharing the full proposal with them.

For other potential funders, we will seek your permission before sharing the full proposal regardless of the number of days since the feedback release date.

In the event that funding becomes available, UKDI-DASA may ask whether you would still be prepared to undertake the work outlined in your proposal under the same terms. Your official UKDI-DASA feedback will indicate if your proposal was deemed fundable, but not awarded funding at the time.

11. If your proposal is recommended for funding

Funded projects will be allocated a Project Manager (to monitor the project) and a Technical Partner (as a technical point of contact). In addition, the UKDI-DASA team may work with an innovator to support delivery and exploitation including, when appropriate, introductions to end-users and business support to help develop their business.

11.1 Cyber Risk Assessment (CRA)

On receipt of a FUND decision, successful innovators must prove cyber resilience before the contract is awarded. The start of this process is the submission of a Supplier Assurance Questionnaire (SAQ). The SAQ allows innovators to demonstrate compliance with the specified risk level and the corresponding profile in Def Stan 05-138, and the level of control required will depend on this risk level.

To expedite the contracting time of successful innovators we ask all innovators to complete the SAQ before they submit their proposal (this is not mandated). The SAQ must be completed using the UKDI-DASA Risk Assessment number RAR-251105B17, answer questions for risk level “Very Low”. In the SAQ form, for the contract name please use the competition title and for the contract description please use the title of your proposal.

The Defence Cyber Protection Partnership (DCPP) will review your SAQ submission and aim to respond within 2-5 working days with a reference number and an indication of your compliance status. They welcome emails if you think a response has not been provided in this time. There are 2 compliance statuses:

1. Compliant – no further action
2. Not compliant – you will be required to complete a Cyber Implementation Plan (CIP) before the contract is placed which will need to be reviewed and agreed with the relevant project manager or, a Cyber Essentials Certification (CEC) must be held before contract can be awarded. Further information and guidance on obtaining a CEC can be found here: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/cyberessentials/overview

The email response from DCPP should be uploaded (JPG or PNG format) as part of your proposal before submission. You will also be asked to enter your SAQ reference number. Please allow enough time to receive the SAQ reference number prior to competition close at 12:00 midday on 20 January 2026 (GMT).

11.2 Export control for overseas partners

All relevant export control regulations will apply if a company ultimately wants to sell a developed solution to a foreign entity. All innovators must ensure that they can obtain, if required, the necessary export licences for their proposals and developments, such that they can be supplied to the UK and other countries. If you cannot confirm that you can gain the requisite licences, your proposal will be sifted out of the competition.

Additionally, if we believe that you will not be able to obtain export clearance, additional checks may be conducted, which may also result in your proposal being sifted out of the competition.

12. Points of Contact

During the competition phase all correspondence must be via the UKDI-DASA Points of Contact detailed below.

While all reasonable efforts will be made to answer queries, UKDI-DASA reserves the right to impose management controls if volumes of queries restrict fair access of information to all potential innovators.

12.1 Innovation Partner

UKDI-DASA has a team of locally based Innovation Partners that can provide support in working with UKDI-DASA. It is strongly recommended that you contact your local Innovation Partner to discuss your idea for any aspect of this competition.

You can initiate this through the submission of a Contact UKDI-DASA Form by following instructions on the Contact a UKDI-DASA Innovation Partner page if you do not already have an established relationship with your local Innovation Partner.

12.2 UKDI-DASA Help Centre

Competition queries including on process, application, commercial, technical and intellectual property aspects should be sent to the UKDI-DASA Help Centre at accelerator@dstl.gov.uk, quoting the competition title. UKDI-DASA cannot guarantee a response to a query after the 6 January 2026, 3 weeks before the competitions closes.