9 July 2015: What's inside that building?
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The document requests proposals for novel techniques to remotely gather information about the interior of buildings and underground facilities. It seeks low-cost, covert technologies that can operate at ranges over 100 meters. Acceptable proposals include those that infer interior details through indirect measurements or use non-standard sensing approaches. Successful projects will receive up to £100,000 in funding and may progress to a second phase. Proposals are due in September 2015.
9 July 2015: What's inside that building?
- 1. What’s inside that building? © Crown copyright 2015 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 2. Background • We seek novel techniques to remotely provide information about the layout and situation inside a building or underground facility • We’re interested in technologies and methods to gather any information that contributes to our overall awareness • Seeking low technology readiness level (TRL) (2-3) concepts • Demonstration outputs will be favoured © Crown copyright 2015 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 3. Military context © Crown copyright 2015 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 4. Pre-2005 © Crown copyright 2015 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 5. Pre-2005 © Crown copyright 2015 Dstl 10 July 2015
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- 7. Pre 2005 © Crown copyright 2015 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 8. Pre 2005 © Crown copyright 2015 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 9. Then along came this… © Crown copyright 2015 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 10. Today © Crown copyright 2015 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 11. Today © Crown copyright 2015 Dstl 10 July 2015
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- 15. Today © Crown copyright 2015 Dstl 10 July 2015
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- 17. Today © Crown copyright 2015 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 18. Today ? © Crown copyright 2015 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 19. Today © Crown copyright 2015 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 20. Not just terrorism © Crown copyright 2015 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 21. The CDE competition © Crown copyright 2015 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 22. What’s inside that building? • Detecting concealed manufacturing activity © Crown copyright 2015 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 23. What’s inside that building? • Finding out about internal building structure © Crown copyright 2015 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 24. What’s inside that building? • Identifying illegal storage activities © Crown copyright 2015 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 25. What’s inside that building? • Working out the number of people in a building and what they are doing © Crown copyright 2015 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 26. What’s inside that building? • Detecting people who are hiding or being held against their will © Crown copyright 2015 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 27. What’s inside that building? • Supporting disaster relief © Crown copyright 2015 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 28. Technology challenges • Challenge 1: traditional sensing methods All sensing methods that try to directly measure properties of interest • Challenge 2: non-standard technologies and approaches Technologies and approaches that allow information of interest to be inferred through indirect measurements © Crown copyright 2015 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 29. Traditional sensing methods Electromagnetic © Crown copyright 2015 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 30. Traditional sensing methods Acoustic / seismic © Crown copyright 2015 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 31. Traditional sensing methods • magnetic / gravitational © Crown copyright 2015 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 32. Non-standard technologies Inference from indirect measurements © Crown copyright 2015 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 33. What we want • technologies and methods that are covert and work remotely. We want proposals that can substantiate claims of robust performance at ranges of over 100 metres © Crown copyright 2015 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 34. What we want • non-standard technologies and approaches that contribute substantially to building up an understanding of what is inside a building, perhaps by combining a number of elements © Crown copyright 2015 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 35. What we want • projects that complete with a technology demonstration will be favoured over projects with only written-word output © Crown copyright 2015 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 36. What we want • innovative proposals are welcomed but you should state clearly the technology developments needed to realise the innovation and the expected timescale for technology maturation © Crown copyright 2015 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 37. What we don’t want • established techniques for sensing through walls when in the proximity of the building will not be considered, eg hand-held radar sensors © Crown copyright 2015 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 38. What we don’t want • trivial examples of non-standard technologies and approaches that provide only a very limited amount of information • projects where the principal output is a literature review © Crown copyright 2015 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 39. What we don’t want • projects that have little innovation will not be funded However projects that propose a novel approach to the exploitation of existing technology will be considered. © Crown copyright 2015 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 40. What we don’t want • timescales for this competition are too constrained to consider PhD projects, however, we would consider small feasibility studies that might lead to a PhD project © Crown copyright 2015 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 41. Technical partners Dstl will be available to provide advice and/or guidance via an appointed technical partner throughout the project and provide the interface with MOD and wider government stakeholder community © Crown copyright 2015 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 42. Important dates • webinar at 1.30pm on Thursday 16 July 2015 • competition closes at 5pm on Thursday 10 September 2015 • proposals submitted using CDE portal mark proposals with ‘What’s inside that building (+ challenge number)’ • contract placement initiated and feedback provided in November 2015 • phase-1 projects to complete by 28 August 2016 © Crown copyright 2015 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 43. Stakeholder event • at the end of phase 1, successfully funded projects will be asked to demonstrate their technology at a stakeholder event in September 2016 at Dstl Porton Down to support wider exploitation through Dstl and MOD • bidders should cost this into their proposals © Crown copyright 2015 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 44. Further information • total budget for phase 1 up to £650,000 • projects of value between £50,000 to £100,000 favoured • expect to take forward the 3-4 best projects into phase 2 • technical queries: RIBICDE@dstl.gov.uk • general queries: cde@dstl.gov.uk • Acknowledgment: Public domain graphics obtained via Wikimedia Commons © Crown copyright 2015 Dstl 10 July 2015
- 45. Innovation Network event 9 July 2015
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