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UK Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) – Themed Competition – Scoping out the Grey Zone: Sub-Threshold AI

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UK Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) – Themed Competition – Scoping out the Grey Zone: Sub-Threshold AI

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DASA is seeking novel and innovative proposals to help explore the role AI can play in improving the ability to conduct intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance of the sub-threshold information environment.

The information environment is defined as a diverse global environment that consists of physical, virtual and the cognitive dimensions where humans and automated systems observe and act on data. The sub-threshold encapsulates all activity up to, but not crossing, the legal definition of armed conflict.

There is a particular interest in lower TRL ideas through to the application of AI techniques at TRL6.

Up to  £300,000 is available for projects of up to 6 months.

Submissions close 6 June 2023.

DASA is seeking ideas which could help defence:

  • apply AI to identify actions in the sub-threshold information environment which are hostile
  • use AI to understand the intent and attribution of those actions
  • use AI to generate possible courses of action to provide response options

Proposals are to address one or more of the three challenge areas:

  1. Indicators & warnings – what is happening in the information environment?
  2. Intent & attribution – who is doing it and why?
  3. Courses of action – what can we do about it? (what sort of response options can we use technology to propose in the information environment)

A dial-in information session will be held 25 April 2023, register here

 

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