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How to submit a proposal to UKDI
Guidance on UKDI terms and conditions for funding, contracts and intellectual property rights.
This guidance explains our competition process and how your proposal is assessed.
The Open Call is looking for innovative ideas to improve the defence and security of the UK. Your idea could be a concept, product or service, at various levels of maturity.
How to get in touch with DASA for advice and guidance
Guidance to consider when submitting a proposal
This guidance sets out the process for determining whether governance approval and ethics review is required for research undertaken, funded or sponsored by MOD.
The UK Defence Innovation organisation, (UKDI), represents a transformative step in consolidating our defence innovation ecosystem under a single, coherent operating model.
This document seeks to address and assist in the decision making of whether or not to apply for a MOD Research Ethics Committee (MODREC) review.
The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) uses the Open Call for Innovation to find ideas that address challenges across both Defence and Security landscapes.
Acceptable use policy for the UKDI online submission service.
The UK accelerator has been chosen as one of the 13 affiliated accelerator sites participating in NATO DIANA’s 2025 accelerator programme.
First published during the 2024 to 2026 Starmer Labour government
Loans of up to £1 million with a below market interest rate of 7.4% per annum to help convert your mature defence innovation into a strong business proposition for defence procurement.
This competition is looking for Human Augmentation technologies that mitigate human performance as the limiting factor in a UK Defence environment
We are seeking proposals that identify and develop new technologies that can be used to detect a range of toxic gases in public areas
Details of the Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) past Innovation Focus Areas (IFAs)
On Friday 1 December 2023, Defence Ministers announced the launch of an innovation challenge series for AUKUS Pillar II. The second of these challenges will be focused on undersea Command, Control and Communications.
This Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) competition is to accelerate the adoption of PYRAMID Reference Architecture (PRA) in avionics and mission systems.
This UK Defence Innovation (UKDI) competition, run on behalf of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) and Ministry of Defence (MOD) Defence Medical Services (DMS), seeks innovations addressing challenges in th…
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