NATO’s 2024 DIANA Innovation Challenges Announced
The call for submissions covers a range of duel-use technologies, across the cross-cutting themes of Space, Resilience, and Sustainability.
The key focus areas are:
- Energy and Power including energy storage, smart grid technologies, nuclear micro-reactors, cyber-physical security, data analytics and AI, and systems engineering
- Data and Information Security including data production, utilisation, direction and protection multi-domain environments, data assurance, and biometrics
- Sensing and Surveillance solutions that enable forecasting, indications and warning as well as situation awareness and post-action assessment such as drones, augmented reality and next-generation wireless technology
- Human Health and Performance improving the understanding of physical and psychological wellbeing including wearable tech, AI and autony enabled technologies, and CBRN detection and defence
- Critical Infrastructure and Logistics technologies to secure global supply chains including IoT technology, component integration, advanced decentralised data-driven logistics, autonomy, underwater cable protection, and data analysis and interpretation.
The deadline for submitting proposals in 1200UTC, Friday 9 August 2024. The competition is open to all companies (meeting the basic eligibility criteria) but best suited to start-ups and SMEs with limited experience in defence.
For more information and details on how to apply please click here.
Jeremy Wimble
Jeremy manages techUK's defence programme, helping the UK's defence technology sector align itself with the Ministry of Defence - including Defence Digital, DE&S, innovation units and Frontline Commands - through a broad range of activities including private briefings and early market engagement events. It also supports the MOD as it procures new digital technologies.
