{"id":71711,"date":"2016-06-28T11:44:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T11:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=c645ff12ff17c7c78906c1fd53831604"},"modified":"2016-07-08T13:50:01","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T13:50:01","slug":"news-story-automatic-threat-detection-of-firearms-apply-for-innovation-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=71711","title":{"rendered":"News story: Automatic threat detection of firearms: apply for innovation funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Updated:<\/em> Added registration link to the networking event on 21 July 2016<\/p>\n<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/home-office\">Home Office\u2019s Office for Security and Counter Terrorism<\/a> (OSCT) is investing up to \u00a32 million in automatic threat detection (ATD) of firearms innovation projects.<\/p>\n<p>The aim of this competition is to further improve the detection capability of illegal firearms, component parts and ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>We are inviting proposals that will show how they will enhance existing x-ray screening techniques through the development of automatic threat detection (ATD) algorithms.<\/p>\n<p>This is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/sbri-the-small-business-research-initiative\">Small Business Research Initiative<\/a> (SBRI) competition run in partnership with Innovate UK.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"competition-information\">Competition information<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>This competition is open now<\/li>\n<li>The registration deadline is noon on Wednesday 24 August, 2016<\/li>\n<li>The application deadline is noon on Wednesday 31 August<\/li>\n<li>There will be a <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/home-office-sbri-automated-threat-detection-of-firearms-tickets-25695976357\">briefing event for potential applicants<\/a> in London on 7 July 2016<\/li>\n<li>There will be a <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/networking-afternoon-home-office-sbri-automated-threat-detection-of-firearms-tickets-26481826857\">networking event for potential applicants<\/a> in London on 21 July 2016<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/funding-competition-automatic-threat-detection-of-firearms\">Find out more about this competition<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/engage.innovateuk.org\/technologystrategyboardlz\/\/WebCapture.aspx?pID=6687&amp;t=0\">Register and apply online<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Innovators can apply for a share of \u00a31 million to develop ways of improving the detection of illegal firearms and ammunition.<\/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\/71711"}],"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=71711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72140,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71711\/revisions\/72140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}