The Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE) aims to fund innovative, high-risk research to develop cost-effective military capabilities through two main routes - an enduring competition that provides £3M annually for radical ideas, and themed competitions focused on specific challenges. CDE seeks proposals from small businesses, academics and wider industry and has invested over £50M in 842 funded proposals over six years to develop technologies in areas like protection, lethality, and situational awareness. Upcoming events will provide networking and advice to innovators on opportunities like automated cyber defence responses.

1. Centre
Defence
Enterprise
for

2. Session scope
CDE opportunities
Themed competition briefings
Guest briefing: Design Council

3. Military capability
Advantage
Persistent

4. The aim of CDE
Prove the value of innovative,
high-risk, high-potential-benefit
research to enable development
of cost-effective military capability
advantage
Defence White Paper – National Security Through Technology Feb 2012

5. The aim of CDE
Technology
Best providers
No barriers

6. Rapid technological change
Defence
Other markets
Utilisation

7. Opportunities
Awareness
Network
Funding

8. Managing innovation
Proof of
concept
Development
Innovation Future capability
CDE MOD + investors

9. CDE operating principles
Key
Applied
Consistent

10. Engaging innovators
SMEs
Academia
Wider industry

11. Funded opportunities
Fair
Accessible
100% funded

12. Sustained incentive
Guarantee
Support
Feedback

13. Minimise participation costs
Online bids
Contracting
Investment

14. Compliance
Regulated
Transparent
Auditable

15. Intellectual property
Defcon 705
Benevolent
Rights of use

16. Two routes to funding
Enduring
Themed
Not classified

17. Enduring competition
Perpetual
Radical
£3M per year

18. Enduring competition
Challenges
Enduring
Framework

19. Framework
Protection
Lethality
Human performance
Mobility
Lower cost of ownership

20. Framework
Situational awareness
Communication
Data
Power

21. Themed competition
Requirements
Bounded
Specific

22. Themed competition today
Detection of
airborne chemical
hazards
£500k total

23. CDE
How has CDE performed?

24. CDE Index
5169
Proposals received in 6 years

25. CDE Index
842
Proposals funded in 6 years

26. CDE Index
£50M
Invested in innovation over 6 years

27. CDE Index
17%
Of proposals funded

28. CDE Index
43%
Proposals funded with SMEs

29. What next for CDE?
Opportunities
Social capital
Funding

30. Innovation Network events
Advice
Opportunity
Networking

31. 9 September 2014, Canary Wharf
featuring
‘automation of cyber defence responses’
Innovation Network events

32. A successful proposal
Clear
Concise
Evidence based