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Reducing Cyber Risk Across Defence

This competition seeks proposals to help quantify and reduce the cyber risk across Defence, enhance digital resilience and enable Defence to be secure by default.

• From: Defence and Security Accelerator
• Published: 5 September 2023
• Last updated: 5 October 2023 — See all updates

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Reducing Cyber Risk Across Defence: Competition Document

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Reducing Cyber Risk Across Defence: ISC Terms and Schedules

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Reducing Cyber Risk Across Defence: FAQ

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Details

This Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) competition is funded by the Cyber Resilience Programme (CRP) in Defence Digital, a part of Strategic Command.

Cyber attacks are becoming more sophisticated, with potentially more impact on military operations. This Themed Competition seeks proposals that will help to quantify and reduce the cyber risk across Defence, enhance digital resilience and enable Defence to be secure by default.

This competition seeks:

• Novel tools that strengthen digital resilience across defence
• Novel approaches that enable security by default
• Novel ways to quantify Operational Technology risk

This competition is interested in innovation projects that will deliver outputs at Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 6 – technology model or prototype demonstration in a relevant environment.

Total funding available

The total possible funding available for this competition is £880K (excluding VAT).

This competition is looking to fund up to 5 proposals.

Additional funding for further phases to increase Technology Readiness Level (TRL) may be available. If there will be a future phase, it will be open to applications from all innovators and not just those that submitted successful bids in Phase 1.

Where do I submit my proposal?

Via the DASA Online Submission Servicefor which you will require an account. Only proposals submitted through the DASA Online Submission Service will be accepted.

Published 5 September 2023
Last updated 5 October 2023 + show all updates

1. 5 October 2023

   FAQ document uploaded

2. 5 September 2023

   Terms and Schedules added

3. 5 September 2023

   First published.