{"id":57518,"date":"2015-06-03T12:33:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T12:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=883ff9303a847208834a4d7f1037b014"},"modified":"2015-06-03T12:33:00","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T12:33:00","slug":"news-story-funding-to-develop-a-new-analytics-platform-for-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=57518","title":{"rendered":"News story: Funding to develop a new analytics platform for defence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p><abbr title=\"Centre for Defence Enterprise\">CDE<\/abbr> is running this open-source big data insight competition on behalf of the Ministry of Defence (<abbr title=\"Ministry of Defence\">MOD<\/abbr>) Information Systems and Services (<abbr title=\"Information Systems and Services\">ISS<\/abbr>) organisation.<\/p>\n<p>The total funding available for the first phase of this competition is \u00a3250,000. Up to \u00a32 million will be available for phase 2, which will be awarded on a per-project basis to the most successful outputs of phase 1 funded projects.<\/p>\n<p>The aim of the competition is to create an evolutionary new analytics platform for defence, in partnership with industry. The outputs of the competition will be used for the analysis of defence internal structured and unstructured data. Understanding more about defence\u2019s internal information, documents, knowledge and interactions will enable <abbr title=\"Ministry of Defence\">MOD<\/abbr> to streamline processes, collaborate more effectively, and share knowledge seamlessly.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Stone, <abbr title=\"Ministry of Defence\">MOD<\/abbr>\u2019s Chief Digital and Information Officer, says: \u201cTraditionally <abbr title=\"Ministry of Defence\">MOD<\/abbr> has been cautious of adopting emerging and unproved technologies. However, we need to adopt these freely available capabilities and services now. I hope this <abbr title=\"Centre for Defence Enterprise\">CDE<\/abbr> competition will encourage industry, and particularly small and medium-sized enterprises (<abbr title=\"small and medium-sized enterprises\">SMEs<\/abbr>) that are delivering analytics and digital enablers, to help us develop a capability that will become an important part of defence transformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/cde-themed-competition-open-source-big-data-insight\">open-source big data insight competition<\/a> is open now and will be briefed at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/cde-innovation-network-event-24-june-2015-london\"><abbr title=\"Centre for Defence Enterprise\">CDE<\/abbr> Innovation Network event on 24 June 2015<\/a> in London. <abbr title=\"Ministry of Defence\">MOD<\/abbr>\u2019s Chief Digital Information Officer, Mike Stone, will introduce the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Andy Nicholson, Head of <abbr title=\"Centre for Defence Enterprise\">CDE<\/abbr>, says: \u201cI\u2019m pleased that the <abbr title=\"Centre for Defence Enterprise\">CDE<\/abbr> mechanism is supporting Mike Stone in achieving his vision for <abbr title=\"Ministry of Defence\">MOD<\/abbr> <abbr title=\"Information Systems and Services\">ISS<\/abbr>. This competition is already generating lots of interest from <abbr title=\"small and medium-sized enterprises\">SMEs<\/abbr>.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p>The competition closes on Thursday 13 August at 5pm. Proposals must be submitted through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/cde-portal-submit-a-proposal\"><abbr title=\"Centre for Defence Enterprise\">CDE<\/abbr> online portal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE) is looking for prototype solutions to provide an unstructured and open-source data analytics platform for defence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57531,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57518\/revisions\/57531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}