DASA Protecting Physical Assets

Fund details

DASA is looking for proposals that will contribute to at least one of the two challenges below:

Challenge 1: Protecting a static asset 

This challenge is focused on protecting temporarily static or permanently fixed assets from hostile UAS, including assets that are either important to the functioning of a site or may pose a hazard to life or other assets if targeted in an attack. The solution should be deployable in a covert manner, easily hidden or masked so that basic reconnaissance will not result in the threat actor redirecting a mission to avoid the physical countermeasures deployed. An ideal solution should be rapidly deployable by a remote operator if there is a credible UAS threat inbound.

Challenge 2: Protecting an asset on the move

This challenge is focused on providing protection from hostile UAS to a moving asset. This might include a land or maritime vehicle, a convoy of vehicles, or a person. DASA need a solution that can be deployable in a covert manner, easily hidden or masked so that basic reconnaissance will not result in the threat actor redirecting a mission to avoid the physical countermeasures deployed.

Your proposal should include evidence of:

• methods of robustly denying current and next-generation drones from kinetic attacks against a range of assets
• solutions against threats from different-sized UAS, with varying payload capabilities
• solutions that can protect a range of asset sizes
• low cost solutions
• limited training and operator burden
• working designs at at least TRL 4 or 5
• TRL 8 or 9 solutions which have been designed for other industries, which have not yet been tested for, but are expected could be applied to, the C-UAS market
• theoretical development, method of advancement or proof of concept research which can demonstrate potential for translation to practical demonstration in later phases
• innovation or a creative approach
• clear demonstration of how the proposed work applies to any defence and security context