Protecting Physical Assets from Uncrewed Aerial Systems Attack
A DASA competition looking at novel protective solutions to protect against Uncrewed Aerial Systems kinetic attack
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This Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) competition is run on behalf of the National Protective Security Authority, the Home Office and the Defence Science and Technology Laboratories. We are seeking proposals that can protect physical assets against an attack from Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS).
The war in Ukraine has demonstrated how vulnerable a wide range of military and civilian assets can be to UAS being used as part of a kinetic attack. The conflict has therefore seen widespread deployment of C-UAS capabilities, such as Detect, Track, and Identify (DTI) technologies, as well as electronic or kinetic effectors to stop a UAS in flight. However, the technologies are not always located in the right place to prevent an attack. There is difficulty in maintaining a cohort of trained personnel in the right place to prevent a UAS attack and the technology doesn’t fully mitigate the ever-developing UAS capabilities and tactics deployed to circumvent these technologies.
These factors highlight the need to go back to basics and underpin C-UAS technology with physical last ditch security countermeasures which can mitigate the effects of a kinetic UAS attack. The C-UAS technology market currently focuses on targeting the UAS in flight; an outer line of defence. This project complements this work by concentrating on how best to protect an asset from an air raid by hostile UAS should that outer line be broken or non-existent.
We encourage proposals where the innovation should output a Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 4-5.
Successful proposals will present credible plans for demonstrating rapidly deployable technologies which can act as a last line of defence to protect an asset.
Submission deadline
12:00 Midday on 13 June 2024 (BST)
Where do I submit my proposal?
Via the DASA Online Submission Service for which you will require an account. Only proposals submitted through the DASA Online Submission Service will be accepted.
Total funding available
The total possible funding available for this competition is £750,000 (excluding VAT).
We are expecting to fund a number of proposals under this competition with a maximum single proposal value of £150,000 (exc. VAT)