{"id":78477,"date":"2017-01-30T15:42:46","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T15:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=68533fb4683ea9285187fb4b1001f3c8"},"modified":"2017-01-30T15:42:46","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T15:42:46","slug":"news-story-presentation-slides-from-the-accelerator-enduring-challenge-launch-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=78477","title":{"rendered":"News story: Presentation slides from the Accelerator Enduring Challenge launch event"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>At the event in London, Harriett Baldwin MP, Minister for Defence Procurement, launched the Innovation Initiative\u2019s \u00a36 million Accelerator Enduring Challenge, in her keynote speech.<\/p>\n<p>The Enduring Challenge is run by the MOD\u2019s new Defence and Security Accelerator and will fast-track the best ideas by funding their development, matching suppliers with expert Innovation Partners, and boosting supplier access to defence. The competition will run regularly, with up to 12 rounds a year.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"enduring-challenge-overview\">Enduring challenge overview<\/h2>\n<p>In the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2jMN2nX\">opening session<\/a>, the Accelerator\u2019s Rob Solly introduced the Accelerator and gave an overview of the Enduring Challenge and how it differs from the previously-run Centre for Defence Enterprise enduring competition.<\/p>\n<p>This was followed by the Accelerator\u2019s Jim Pennycook, who explained the transition to the Accelerator and gave an overview of proof-of-concept research funding opportunities for innovative science and technology providers.<\/p>\n<p>Further detail was then provided by the Accelerator\u2019s Bruce Hardie, who explained the specifics of the challenge, how the competitions would work and the practicalities of submitting a proposal.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"defence-and-security-perspectives\">Defence and Security perspectives<\/h2>\n<p>In the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2jur9Zx\">second session<\/a>, military advisers and technical experts from the security services, air, land and sea sectors gave their perspective of how the Enduring Challenge will meet the defence and security challenges.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A launch event for the Enduring Challenge was held for science and technology providers on 26 January 2017.<\/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\/78477"}],"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=78477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}