Co-Creation Challenge

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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. 

Noise Reduction 3 X

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.

Emulated Phone 2 X

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.

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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. 

Terms and Conditions for Challenge Applicants – Click Here

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