The MOD’s Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE) and Cyber and Influence Science & Technology Centre (C&I STC) are launching a SBRI call for research proposals for innovative solutions to protect and secure UK interests in cyberspace.
The C&I STC supports the implementation of the National Cyber Security Strategy across defence involving inter-disciplinary research across the physical, information and human sciences domains into the evolution of cyberspace and its influence on human behaviour. The C&I STC also works across Government to address the capabilities needed to secure the UK’s broader interests in cyberspace. This competition seeks research proposals in following areas:
• Cyber-Spectrum: Innovative spectrum defence technologies or techniques enabling wireless enabled cyber systems to survive in a hostile electromagnetic (EM) environment. Unconventional techniques and technology for generating cyber effect through the use of Radio Frequency spectrum.
Cyber Challenges: Understanding the Future Cyber Environment (information, data, tools & techniques and social-networking opportunities), Supply Chain Security, Cyber Situational Awareness (to improve timely decision making) and Cyber Networks Defence (resilience for fixed and adhoc networks comprising tactical, National, Allied, Coalition and campaign assets) .
• Influence Though Cyber (Phase 2): Cyber-Influence, On-line / off-line behaviours, Social media monitoring and analysis, Cyber-ethnography or ‘netnography’, and Novel Approaches to dynamics of personality, leadership, trust and emotion in on-line settings.
The competition will launch at a seminar in Central London on 1st November 2011. The event will provide the opportunity to question leading military and technical experts from the C&I STC and the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory.
Please note it is necessary to register for this seminar at:
http://www.science.mod.uk/events/event_detail.aspx?eventID=146
The brief will be available after the seminar on 1st November 2011.
This competition is run by the Centre of Defence Enterprise.
For more information and the application process please register at:
https://innovative.ideas.mod.uk/(Q(4))/Welcome.aspx?QTVShellInfo=.1