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Competition: It’s Good for Missiles to Talk

DASA on behalf of Dstl, aims to identify and develop novel technologies that could be exploited in the development of a new category of missile – cooperative missiles.

• From: Defence and Security Accelerator and Defence Science and Technology Laboratory
• Published: 9 June 2022
• Last updated: 22 July 2022 — See all updates

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It’s Good for Missiles to Talk: Competition Document

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ISC Terms: It's Good for Missiles to Talk

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ICS Schedules: It's Good for Missiles to Talk

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This Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) competition, run on behalf of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), aims to identify and develop novel technologies that could be exploited in the development of a new category of missile – cooperative missiles.

Cooperative missiles can communicate with each other, share situational awareness and organise themselves to ‘work together’ efficiently to achieve a common objective.  The aim of the work is to investigate how inter-missile communication and cooperative behaviours can be technically achieved to solve UK military challenges.

It is envisioned that by working together, cooperative missiles will offer the UK armed forces far more capability in the future than they have today. There are many benefits to enabling cooperation between missiles. For example, when considering collateral damage during missions or the live updating of safety data within missions if non-combatants enter the battlefield post-launch. This information could be shared by cooperative missiles to ensure an abort function is carried out live during a mission, under human operator authority.

UK defence systems enabled by AI, including missiles, will always be subject to context appropriate human involvement. For this competition, we are only interested in technologies that could enable cooperation between missiles.

Published 9 June 2022
Last updated 22 July 2022 + show all updates

1. 22 July 2022

   Updated the closing date of the competition throughout. Previously it was Midday 02 August 2022 (BST), it is now Midday 03 August 2022 (BST)

2. 4 July 2022

   Clarification Questions and Answers - Adding the FAQs from the Open Q and A event

3. 9 June 2022

   First published.