Press release

What鈥檚 inside that building?

皇冠体育app Ministry of Defence (MOD) is looking for new and novel technologies to help look inside buildings of interest.

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Knowing what鈥檚 happening behind closed doors, where terrorists could be concealing their activities, could be of vital importance for the defence and security of the UK.

皇冠体育app MOD鈥檚 Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) is holding a competition through its Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE), with total funding of 拢650,000 for phase-1 projects.

At the end of phase 1, up to 拢500,000 of additional funding will be made available for successful projects.

Dstl is looking for technologies and methods that can work remotely at distances of more than 100 metres. Of interest are non-standard technologies and approaches that contribute substantially to developing an understanding of what鈥檚 inside a building.

For this competition, Dstl is not interested in established techniques for sensing through walls, such as hand-held radar sensors, or for technologies that provide a limited amount of information about a building鈥檚 interior.

Those who receive funding will be asked to demonstrate their technology at a stakeholder event in September 2016.

A launch event for the competition is taking place at 皇冠体育app Grand Connaught Rooms, London, on 9 July 2015. A webinar will follow on 16 July 2015.

皇冠体育app competition will close on 10 September 2015 at 5pm.

Dstl media enquiries

Email [email protected]

Press office 01980 950000 option 2

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Published 17 June 2015