Co-Creation Challenge
Co-Creation Challenges
HORIBA MIRA is part of a government framework which looks to reach out to industry in order to fund activity related to solving critical national security challenges. Please see the list of challenges below and get in touch if you think you can help to provide a complete solution or would like to connect with other industry partners and collaborate:
No.
Challenge Title
Open Date
Online Briefing Call
Submission Dates
1.
Challenge set to find secure speech solutions
16/09/2024
24/10/2024
2.
Cutting eavesdropping risks using AI
10/10/2024
07/11/2024
3.
Scalable Phone
10/10/2024
07/11/2024
4.
AI / Novel Technology Red Agent Penetration Testing
17/10/2024
21/11/2024
Challenge set to find secure speech solutions
Summary of the challenge
Can you help us develop a solution we can use to retrofit in offices or other locations used for government work to enable soundproofing for secure conversations?
In its latest challenge HMGCC Co-Creation wants to hear from organisations and individuals who are experts in materials capable of providing a high level of acoustic dampening or reflection.
Organisations are being asked to apply if, over a 12-week period, they can develop and demonstrate technology to meet this challenge. HMGCC Co-Creation will provide funding for time, materials, overheads and other indirect expenses.
Cutting eavesdropping risks using AI
Summary of the challenge
UK government offices often host sensitive conversations, and it is important to ensure that these are not under threat from accidental or nefarious eavesdropping attempts. These risks are continually assessed due to the high pace of change in technology.
In its latest challenge, HMGCC Co-Creation wants to hear from organisations developing artificial intelligence / machine learning techniques that help us understand what is now possible, to reduce risk of eavesdropping and to test in a government office scenario.
Organisations are being asked to apply if, over a 12 week period, they can develop and demonstrate technology to meet this challenge, HMGCC Co-Creation will provide funding for time, materials, overheads and other indirect expenses.
Scalable Phone
Summary of the challenge
The NCA needs to communicate securely, effectively and dynamically with officers and a range of partners 24/7, 365 days a year. Communications include voice, text, video and picture messaging.
Officers may use multiple aliases and several physical mobile phones to interact with numerous people, protecting their identity and the identity of those with whom they communicate. The NCA wants to reduce the use of physical handsets, in favour of simplifying operations by using a single approved device. The single device should be able to host a series of emulations that can be spun-up and decommissioned rapidly. Due to the sensitivity of some operations, there must be minimal risk of emulation being linked, and any risks should be identified and clearly articulated for the risk owner.
AI / Novel Technology Red Agent Penetration Testing
Summary of the challenge
In the latest challenge launched by HMGCC Co-Creation, applications are being invited from organisations which work with AI or novel technologies in penetration testing. The type of testing being undertaken is to expose specific vulnerabilities – known as red agent penetration testing.
Organisations and solution providers can apply for funding to: 1) undertake paper-based landscape mapping to evaluate the market maturity of AI or other novel technologies to operate as a ‘Red Agent’ penetration tester, and 2) provide a test environment and to subsequently undertake practical testing to evaluate the feasibility of AI or other novel technologies to operate as a ‘Red Agent’ penetration tester.
About HMGCC Co-Creation
His Majesty’s Government Communication Centre (HMGCC) work with the national security community, UK government, academia, private sector partners and international allies to bring engineering ingenuity to the national security mission,
HMGCC Co-Creation is a partnership between HMGCC and Dstl (Defence Science and Technology Laboratory), created to deliver a new, bold and innovative way of working with the wider UK science and technology community. We bring together the best in class across industry, academia, and government, to work collaboratively on national security engineering challenges and accelerate innovation.
HMGCC Co-Creation aim to work collaboratively with the successful solution providers by utilising in-house delivery managers working Agile by default. This process will involve access to HMGCC Co-Creation’s technical expertise and facilities to bring a product to market more effectively than traditional customer-supplier relationships.
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What are Co-Creation Spaces?
Co-Creation Spaces bring together key public and private sector parties to foster open and collaborative development of high-impact, user-driven technology solutions around a cross-cutting theme critical to national security, at a pace and scale that could not otherwise be achieved. HMGCC does not directly task or fund the Co-Creation Spaces or the projects within them. HMGCC does provide the partnerships and enablers under which Co-Creation can thrive. In return, Co-Creation Spaces provide HMGCC with a practical outlet for our core work, allowing us to develop cross-cutting capabilities, test concepts and develop best practice in Co-Creation that will be fed back into the Co-Creation Spaces and to wider partners.
Get In Touch
If you would like to get more info or join our mailing list to be sent the latest challenges as soon as they are released, please send an email with all of your contact details to: [email protected]
Previous Challenges
No.
Challenge Title
Open Date
Q & A Dates
Submission Dates
1.
Assurance of printed circuit boards using machine vision
15/07/2024
29/08/2024
2.
Underground Tunnelling Techniques
08/07/2024
15/08/2024
3.
Use of AI in screening individuals of interest
18/03/2024
09/04/2024
09/05/2024
4.
eSIM reader for officer safety
04/12/23
09/01/24
01/02/24
5.
Dashcam Interruption
06/12/23
11/01/24
17/11/23
6
Long Distance Wi-Fi
09/10/23
24/10/23
17/11/23
7.
Covert Evidential Footage
25/09/23
10/10/23
03/11/23
8.
Intelligent surveillance trigger
02/10/23
05/09/23
01/11/23
9.
Mapping industrial assets in a complex environment
11/09/23
26/09/23
20/10/23
10.
Transfer data to multiple nodes
14/08/23
29/08/23
22/09/23