Introduction to the Centre for Defence Enterprise and introducing the Defence and Security Accelerator

Editor's Notes

• #2: Welcome Housekeeping I’m going to tell you what is happening at today’s event and give you an update on what CDE has been doing since our last event. [NEXT SLIDE]
• #3: CDE has been in operation since May 2008. It has a base in Harwell, Oxfordshire, and it started with 3 people and a tiny rented office. Just like a SME!
• #4: Welcome Housekeeping I’m going to tell you what is happening at today’s event and give you an update on what CDE has been doing since our last event. [NEXT SLIDE]
• #7: The Accelerator (a component of the initiative) will build on the Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE). It will be a managed network which uses the knowledge, facilities and skills of partner centres in the innovation ecosystem. Accelerator development will be spiral, not a big bang. Scope and functions are still subject to open consultation. Both of today’s competitions already test some of what the Initiative and the Accelerator seeks to achieve. In particular: Delivering capability at pace aligned to what end users want; Supporting your journey from concept through to delivery; Working with procurement bodies to pull solutions into service; Exploiting solutions regardless of their stage of development; Spinning solutions in and out of Government from traditional and non traditional sectors. [NEXT SLIDE]
• #8: The Accelerator (a component of the initiative) will build on the Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE). It will be a managed network which uses the knowledge, facilities and skills of partner centres in the innovation ecosystem. Accelerator development will be spiral, not a big bang. Scope and functions are still subject to open consultation. Both of today’s competitions already test some of what the Initiative and the Accelerator seeks to achieve. In particular: Delivering capability at pace aligned to what end users want; Supporting your journey from concept through to delivery; Working with procurement bodies to pull solutions into service; Exploiting solutions regardless of their stage of development; Spinning solutions in and out of Government from traditional and non traditional sectors. [NEXT SLIDE]
• #9: Holding slide. All slides available via the CDE website for the competition. [NEXT]
• #10: Holding slide. All slides available via the CDE website for the competition. [NEXT]
• #11: Holding slide. All slides available via the CDE website for the competition. [NEXT]
• #12: Welcome Housekeeping I’m going to tell you what is happening at today’s event and give you an update on what CDE has been doing since our last event. [NEXT SLIDE]
• #13: Military capability [NEXT]
• #14: For CDE it all came into focus in 2012 with the Defence White Paper - National Security Through Technology: Technology, Equipment, and Support for UK Defence and Security This is what CDE is charged with delivering. Add your name and organisation
• #15: Military capability. This is what today is all about. Innovation = military capability = military advantage. But CDE is increasingly about security too.
• #16: Military capability. This is what today is all about. Innovation = military capability = military advantage. But CDE is increasingly about security too.
• #17: So how can you access CDE funding? This is a reminder of the routes to CDE funding. Firstly, our series of themed competitions. One of which you may have heard about this morning – ‘Seeing through the clouds’. Each themed competition usually has a phase-1 budget of at least £500,000. We’ve started to put in place defined phase-2 budgets too, to take successful projects forward for future development. Themed competitions are bound in terms of an allocated budget, a defined challenge or set of challenges, and the timeframe in which you have to submit. The second route to CDE funding is our continually open ‘enduring competition’. This has a budget of up to £3 million per year. You can submit a proposal to this at any time, and there’s a set of 9 enduring challenges for you to submit your ideas against, and give you some guidance on the sorts of things we’re looking for. I’m not going to say any more about this route, as my colleague David Hazelton will be covering this in detail after my presentation this afternoon.
• #18: *Value displayed is the total competition funding available for phase 1 and phase 2. See competition documents for more detail Provides ongoing opportunities for innovators. They are characterised by boundaries; a bounded set of challenges; a bounded budget that you can bid into; and a bounded response timeframe for the competition, unlike the enduring challenge competition. More opportunity. [NEXT]
• #19: Themed competitions programme is distinctly different to the Enduring Challenge competition. T hemed competitions are borne out of our existing MOD research programme. *Value displayed is the total competition funding available for phase 1 and phase 2. See competition documents for more detail Provides ongoing opportunities for innovators. They are characterised by boundaries; a bounded set of challenges; a bounded budget that you can bid into; and a bounded response timeframe for the competition, unlike the enduring challenge competition. More opportunity. Prospective competitions: Tactical and Medical logistics - joint enablers/ interoperability Intelligence systems and analytics DE&S Maritime Cyber - Cyber Situational Awareness / Visualisation and Cyber-related Sensors and Actuators CTW - change detection (* Value = level of funding available for phase 1 and phase 2 over adjacent FY) [NEXT]
• #21: Title slide Add your name and organisation
• #23: The Accelerator (a component of the initiative) will build on the Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE). It will be a managed network which uses the knowledge, facilities and skills of partner centres in the innovation ecosystem. Accelerator development will be spiral, not a big bang. Scope and functions are still subject to open consultation. Both of today’s competitions already test some of what the Initiative and the Accelerator seeks to achieve. In particular: Delivering capability at pace aligned to what end users want; Supporting your journey from concept through to delivery; Working with procurement bodies to pull solutions into service; Exploiting solutions regardless of their stage of development; Spinning solutions in and out of Government from traditional and non traditional sectors. [NEXT SLIDE]
• #24: The Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE) will pause the Enduring Competition on 25 October 2016 at 5pm, while the CDE transitions into the early operating capability of the new Defence and Security Accelerator - announced by Secretary of State for Defence, Sir Michael Fallon, on 16 September 2016 as part of the defence innovation initiative (Link).   Why are we doing this? The new Accelerator's focus will be on exploitation of novel solutions, and we are taking the opportunity to reshape its framework, scope and back office support to meet this remit - with a re-launch in 2017.   However, our Themed competition programme will continue to offer a wide range of funding opportunities. [NEXT SLIDE]
• #25: Welcome Housekeeping I’m going to tell you what is happening at today’s event and give you an update on what CDE has been doing since our last event. [NEXT SLIDE]
• #28: Holding slide. All slides available via the CDE website for the competition. [NEXT]