News story: SME Showcase at DSEI 2015
Updated: SME case studies now available.
At DSEI 2015, 10 SMEs who have been successful through CDE funding competitions will present their work in 5-minute pitches. Time for networking will follow.
This session will take place on Thursday 17 September 2015, 12pm to 2pm in the West Theatre, Unmanned Zone. Find out more.
It will include an introduction to CDE opportunities, before hearing first hand from the 10 SMEs about their companies and their innovations.
The session will be very useful for those with an interest in innovative defence research and to meet up-and-coming SMEs who have been funded as part of the CDE supply chain.
The companies exhibiting for CDE are listed below. The innovation summaries link to a case study from each organisation.
| Company | Innovation summary |
|---|---|
| Autonomous Devices | Improvised robotic devices |
| Folium Optics | Adaptive camouflage technology |
| IQHQ | High-resilience radio communication receivers |
| Kaon | Use of plasmonic meta materials in lenses |
| Metrarc | Deriving secure encryption keys from the properties of digital systems |
| Mobbu | Secure mobile communications software |
| The Technology Partnership (TTP) | Sensing solution for SONAR applications |
| Thinking Safe | Insider threat detection |
| Trauma Simulation | Realistic trauma simulation |
| Voicekey | On-device, voice biometric mobile identity management solution |
Presentations from the companies will be also be published after the event via the links above.
About CDE
CDE funds novel, high-risk, high-potential-benefit research. We work with the broadest possible range of science and technology providers, including academia and small companies, to develop cost-effective capabilities for UK armed forces and national security.
CDE is part of Dstl.
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