TF RAID Avengers: AI swarming competition
The Rapid AI Delivery Taskforce (TF RAID) is running a competition to access Ukraine’s Avengers Labs platform to enhance autonomous drone swarming and collaborative drone operations.
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The Rapid AI Delivery Taskforce (TF RAID) is running an open competition inviting proposals from UK industry on how to use new access to Avengers Labs datasets to enhance autonomous drone swarming and collaborative drone operations. Proposals should have the potential to benefit both UK and Ukrainian armed forces.
Avengers Labs is a Ukrainian government platform containing imagery and footage of various ground and aerial targets collected in Ukraine. This is the inaugural competition under the UK-Ukraine AI partnership.
How to apply
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Read the competition overview document to understand the challenge requirements.
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Answer all of the questions outlined in the submission template.
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Submit your PDF proposal addressing the challenge requirements through the submission portal.
Key dates
- competition launch date: 25 September 2026
- briefing call to UK industry: 7 October 2026
- deadline for submissions: 11:59pm BST on 22 October 2026
- MOD review of submissions and companies: 23 to 30 October 2026
- selected companies for Phase 1 access to Avengers Labs notified: by 6 November 2026