Centre Defence Enterprise

for

Session scope

CDE

Opportunities

Requirements and process

Session scope

Enduring competition briefing

Effective proposals

Submitting a proposal

CDE

What is CDE about?

Military Capability

Advantage

Persistent

Innovation = Advantage

Challenge

Pace

Exploitation

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

The aim of CDE

Technology

Providers

Barriers

Research Worldwide

Global top 100 R&D

UK top 100 R&D

UK MOD R&D

UK MOD R

Rapid Technological Change

Defence

Other markets

Utilisation

Opportunities

Awareness

Network

Funding

Managing innovation

Proof of concept

Development

Innovation Future capability

CDE MOD + industry

CDE Operating Principles

Key

Applied

Consistent

Engaging Innovators

SMEs

Academia

Industry

Accessible Opportunities

Fair

Equitable

Open

Sustained incentive

Guarantee

Support

Feedback

Minimise participation costs

Bidding

Contracting

Investment

Compliance

Fair

Transparent

Auditable

Intellectual property

Defcon705

Benevolent

Rights of use

Two routes to funding

Open

Themed

Open Competition

Perpetual

Radical

£2.5M

Open Competition

Unlimited possibilities get in

the way of decisiveness

Enduring Competition

Challenges

Enduring

9+1 framework

Enduring Competition

Protection

Lethality

Human performance

Mobility

Lower cost of ownership

Enduring Competition

Situational awareness

Communication

Data

Power

New capabilities

Situational Awareness

Sensors

Navigation

Surveillance

Communication

Secure

Mobile

Novel

Data

Processing

Interoperability

Visualisation

Themed competition

Requirements

Bounded

Specific

Themed competition

Recognising the need is the

primary condition for design

Charles Eames

CDE

How has CDE performed?

CDE Index

4779 Proposals received in 5 years

CDE Index

769 Proposals funded in 5 years

CDE Index

£44M Invested in innovation over 5 years

CDE Index

17% Of proposals funded

CDE Index

45% Of proposals funded with SMEs

Dismounted burden

70 kg

Endurance

Mobility

Data deluge

Cyber attack

Detection

Predictive

What next for CDE?

Opportunities

Social capital

Funding

CDE

The mechanics of interaction

Helping yourself

Linked In

Twitter

YouTube

Online bid submission

Only route

Low overhead

Control

The Portal

Online

Submissions

Accounts

The Portal

Before log on

Quick Start

Competition

Not an exam

Structure

Information

Choice

A successful proposal

Clear

Concise

Evidence based

Unclassified

Mandatory

Including work

No exceptions

The Proposal

The essentials

Assessment criteria

Operational relevance

Likelihood of exploitation

Builds critical S&T capability to meet UK needs

Scientific quality/innovation

Science, innovation and technology risk

Assessment

Each assessor

Per proposal

As presented 60 Minutes

Description

First thing

Imagination

Assessors

Commercial tab

Vital

Acceptance

Assessors

Government Furnished X

Unique

Vital

Proportionate

Health and Safety

Safe work

Risks

Management

Ethics

Testing

Clearance

Partition

Health check

Based on a claim of future benefit

Contribution to realisation of future benefit

Logical programme of work

Evidential outcomes

Demonstration of progress towards goal

Claim of future benefit

Contribution

Compelling

Audacious

Contribution to future benefit

How?

Context

Value

Programme of work

Logical

Timely

Clear

Generation of evidence

Generated

Value

Proof of?

Demonstration of progress

Delivery

Progress

Claimed benefit

Proposal

Perfection is achieved not when

there is nothing more to add,

but when there is nothing left to

take away

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

In it to win it

Submit

Deadline

Early