Futures and Innovation supplier event presentation - Dstl
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<strong>Futures</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Innovation</strong><br />
Domain<br />
PO Supplier Engagement Day<br />
19 th July 2012<br />
David Sherburn<br />
Domain Leader - <strong>Futures</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Innovation</strong><br />
dcsherburn@dstl.gov.uk
What I’ll cover<br />
• <strong>Futures</strong> & <strong>Innovation</strong> Domain strategic drivers<br />
• F&I programmes<br />
• Current priority areas of Emerging Technology<br />
• Why industry & academia are important to us<br />
• Engagement opportunities<br />
31 July 2012<br />
© <strong>Dstl</strong> 2012 2001<br />
<strong>Dstl</strong> is part of the<br />
Ministry of Defence
Our strategic drivers<br />
• Identify <strong>and</strong> communicate the future challenges<br />
– enhanced decision support <strong>and</strong> policy development<br />
S&T <strong>Futures</strong><br />
• Harness S&T knowledge & emerging insights<br />
– to realise positive change in defence & security<br />
• Stimulate innovative thinking & behaviours<br />
– to improve responsiveness to S&T opportunity<br />
• Constructive challenge to current assumptions<br />
<strong>Innovation</strong><br />
Knowledge<br />
Management<br />
Strategic<br />
Academic<br />
Engagement<br />
International<br />
Research<br />
Collaboration<br />
– to future proof our capability<br />
F&I Programmes<br />
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<strong>Dstl</strong> is part of the<br />
Ministry of Defence
Opportunity, Influence<br />
& Change<br />
F&I Domain: Our Role<br />
Capability development<br />
Customers<br />
<strong>Futures</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Innovation</strong> Domain<br />
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<strong>Dstl</strong> is part of the<br />
Ministry of Defence
Customer community<br />
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<strong>Dstl</strong> is part of the<br />
Ministry of Defence
Strategic S&T <strong>Futures</strong><br />
What worldwide scientific<br />
developments could impact<br />
defence <strong>and</strong> security in the future?<br />
FutureWorlds<br />
Intervention<br />
Chip scale Atomic Clock<br />
Industry & IRC<br />
The Semantic Web<br />
3D Printing<br />
(advanced manufacture techniques)<br />
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<strong>Dstl</strong> is part of the<br />
Ministry of Defence
Intervention<br />
• Harness S&T futures work <strong>and</strong> wider horizon scanning<br />
to support government’s strategic planning<br />
• Challenge key policy <strong>and</strong> planning assumptions<br />
• Support future force development<br />
• Provide business case advice on strategic direction of<br />
research into emerging technology<br />
• Invest / Divest<br />
• Watch<br />
• Collaborate<br />
• Buy COTS<br />
Influence & change<br />
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Ministry of Defence
S&T <strong>Futures</strong> current activities<br />
• Synthetic Biology<br />
• Global Uncertainties<br />
• Data Intensive Systems<br />
• Trustworthy Digital Systems<br />
• Future sensor systems<br />
• Advances in agile design <strong>and</strong> manufacture<br />
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© <strong>Dstl</strong> 2012 2001<br />
<strong>Dstl</strong> is part of the<br />
Ministry of Defence
Current Emerging S&T priority areas<br />
• Synthetic Biology<br />
• Stem cell <strong>and</strong> tissue engineering<br />
• Advanced battery chemistries<br />
• Dynamic Social Networks<br />
• Improved Predictive Intelligence<br />
• Quantum computing<br />
• Image <strong>and</strong> video search<br />
• Mass Surveillance<br />
• Direct brain-machine interface<br />
• Long range 'perpetual' UAVs<br />
• Augmented reality<br />
• High Energy Directed Energy Weapons<br />
• The semantic web<br />
• Metamaterials<br />
• 3D Printing<br />
• Graphene <strong>and</strong> novel Carbon Materials<br />
• 3D nanostructures<br />
• Intelligent autonomous swarms<br />
• Low Cost Autonomous systems<br />
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Ministry of Defence
Nurturing the best<br />
Research<br />
Non-<br />
Research<br />
• National PhD scheme<br />
• UK- FR PhD<br />
• Joint academic research<br />
How do we ensure access to<br />
leading research <strong>and</strong> academics<br />
in priority S&T areas?<br />
• Defence <strong>and</strong> security awareness<br />
• RAEng & visiting Fellows<br />
• UK/FR Engagement programme<br />
• Security clearances<br />
IRC & Industry<br />
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Ministry of Defence
UK National PhD Scheme<br />
Materials<br />
WWW.DSTL.GOV.UK/PHDS<br />
Sensors<br />
Neuroscience<br />
Autonomous<br />
systems<br />
57 PhDs will be<br />
launched as of Sept<br />
2012<br />
Big Data<br />
Cyber<br />
Behavioural<br />
Sciences<br />
Artificial<br />
Intelligence<br />
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43 PhDs to be launched<br />
Topics to be<br />
decided<br />
<strong>Dstl</strong> is part of the<br />
Ministry of Defence
<strong>Innovation</strong><br />
How do we stimulate & exploit<br />
new technology <strong>and</strong> thinking to<br />
overcome our defence <strong>and</strong><br />
security challenges?<br />
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Ministry of Defence
<strong>Innovation</strong><br />
Problem Space<br />
(Challenges)<br />
Ideation<br />
(Creative Step)<br />
Exploration<br />
(Research)<br />
Bridging the gap<br />
through<br />
partnerships<br />
‘Valley of Death’<br />
Super Bainite Steel<br />
Research<br />
Output<br />
Change<br />
= Novel ideas developed in <strong>Dstl</strong><br />
= Novel ideas <strong>and</strong> concepts from<br />
academia <strong>and</strong> industry<br />
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Ministry of Defence
Knowledge Known knowns management <strong>and</strong><br />
exploitation<br />
The things we know<br />
The results from previous<br />
research<br />
How do we exploit historical, existing <strong>and</strong><br />
planned defence research to support the<br />
Unknown needs knowns of our stakeholders Unknown <strong>and</strong> <strong>supplier</strong>s? unknowns<br />
The things we don’t know we know<br />
The results from previous<br />
research that is<br />
overlooked<br />
Known unknowns<br />
The things we know we don’t know<br />
The current research<br />
programme<br />
The things we don’t know we don’t know<br />
<strong>Dstl</strong> Horizon Scanning<br />
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<strong>Dstl</strong> is part of the<br />
Ministry of Defence
Strategic engagement<br />
Why engagement with you is<br />
important to F&I<br />
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<strong>Dstl</strong> is part of the<br />
Ministry of Defence
Summary engagement points<br />
– UK National PhD scheme – September 2012<br />
– CDE call(s)<br />
• S&T Threats & Opportunities for Defence & Security (with GU<br />
RCUK), launch - 9 Oct 2012<br />
• <strong>Innovation</strong> call, launch – Mar 2013<br />
• Future Sensor Systems <strong>Innovation</strong> CDE call (exploitation)<br />
• Advances in Design, Fabrication <strong>and</strong> Manufacture (exploitation)<br />
– DIET programme – extramural research ongoing<br />
– F&I Exploitation Lead<br />
• to be seconded from industry ~ Oct 12<br />
31 July 2012<br />
© <strong>Dstl</strong> 2012 2001<br />
<strong>Dstl</strong> is part of the<br />
Ministry of Defence
<strong>Futures</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Innovation</strong><br />
Domain<br />
Any Questions?<br />
David Sherburn<br />
Domain Leader - <strong>Futures</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Innovation</strong>
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