


Defence Innovation Loan
09/07/2025Up to £350,000
Project Value
Up to 24 months
Project Length
23 September 2025
Competition Closes
The Open Call for Innovation allows innovative ideas to be proposed to defence and security stakeholders, even where a specific requirement has not been stipulated. It is a broad mechanism to allow innovators to present disruptive ideas, which may otherwise be overlooked.
DASA currently has the following distinct competition(s) open for submissions under the Open Call for Innovation: Defence Rapid Impact.
DASA is interested in proposals that:
- Develop new or novel approaches to achieve existing outcomes within defence more efficiently/effectively.
- Develop and demonstrate modern approach, techniques, or equipment to deliver new or enhanced outcomes for defence.
- Develop current capability in a novel way to achieve efficiency or enhanced effect for defence.
- Provide evidence to the impact of the novel approach/technique across defence.
- Present a credible plan and have a realistic prospect for impact in defence within a three-year timeframe from the completion of the project funded under the DRI.
- Present a clear plan for future development and scaling, including engagement and compliance with any applicable regulatory requirements both within and outside of defence.
- Deliver a technology model or prototype demonstration at Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 6 or 7 at the end of the project. This demonstration should be at a limited scale, in the hands of users, and in the context or environment representative of an environment in which the solution would be used.
- Do not exceed 24 months. We anticipate project duration to be between 12–18 months. Please note there is no minimum project duration.
- Do not exceed £350,000. We anticipate project value to be in the region of £200,000 to £300,000. Please note there is no minimum project value.
- Include a clear demonstration of how the proposed work applies to the defence context.
- Provides a sound justification of why defence should fund the development of the innovation.