Co-Creation Challenge Draft

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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

Deadline for clarifying questions

Submission Dates

1.

Miniaturised detectors sought to spot drones

03/02/2025

20/02/2025

Miniature detectors sought to spot drones

Summary of the challenge

Drone detectors, small enough to fit inside a pocket or a hand, are sought in a new challenge launched by HMGCC Co-Creation. The use of drones is now common everywhere, including by those intent on harming the UK and its allies. This challenge seeks to find a new way to address some of those risks.

The team wants to hear from organisations who are developing miniature devices to detect drones, also known as Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS). We are not interested in devices used to disrupt or effect UAS flight paths.

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. 

Co-Creation Challenge

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.

Rapidly deployed tech to track intruders

18/11/2024

28/112024

19/12/2024

2.

Cutting eavesdropping risks using AI

10/10/2024

24/10/24

24/10/2024

3.

Scalable Phone

10/10/2024

22/10/24

07/11/2024

4.

Challenge set to find secure speech solutions

16/09/2024

24/10/2024

5.

Assurance of printed circuit boards using machine vision

15/07/2024

29/08/2024

6.

Underground Tunnelling Techniques

08/07/2024

15/08/2024

7.

Use of AI in screening individuals of interest

18/03/2024

09/04/2024

09/05/2024

8.

eSIM reader for officer safety

04/12/23

09/01/24

01/02/24

9.

Dashcam Interruption

06/12/23

11/01/24

17/11/23

10.

Long Distance Wi-Fi

09/10/23

24/10/23

17/11/23