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DASA launches new metasurfaces for defence and security competition

Posted 20 August 2018

The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) has launched a new competition on metasurfaces for defence and security.

This themed competition is seeking proposals for innovative solutions that will pull ideas from recent breakthroughs in metasurface science into products.

The competition is aimed at the private sector and academia who can harness electromagnetic hardware. DASA are particularly interested in novel metasurfaces and manufacturing technologies to integrate them into platforms.

Up to £500,000 is available for phase 1 of this competition. Additional funding of up to £500,000 may be available for phase 2.

DASA will be encouraging collaboration between academia and industry.

The competition is now open. Full details are available in the competition document .

The competition will close at midday on 28 September 2018.

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