Exploiting Commercial Sector Developments

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Exploiting Commercial Sector Developments
Dr. Keith Blackwood, Director Technology, DDA
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Exploiting Commercial Sector Developments

• The Role of the DDA
• Challenges
• Cross Cutting Technologies
• Opportunities
• The Way Ahead.

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The role of the DDA
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The Origins of the DDA

• Key Government initiative launched 1998
• Response to HM Treasury Baker Report
• Wider use of publicly-funded defence technology
  for UK wealth and job creation
• Three roles
• Encourage the widest possible commercial
  exploitation of defence ST
• Encourage the transfer of suitable civil
  technologies into defence programmes
• Assist UK defence industrys diversification
  planning

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The DDA Today

• Successful Defence Technology Service
• 6,000 company clients 15,000 contacts
• 30m boost to the UK economy 40m efficiency
  savings through adjacent market technology
  insertion
• Expert in fostering technology transfer between
  sectors and between Government departments
• Service now offered outside of defence
• Aerospace
• Automotive
• Information, Computing Telecommunications
• Homeland Security
• Healthcare

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DDA Features

• The UKs leading technology transfer organisation
• Exclusive Access to Europes Largest Science Base
• 15,000 science technology providers
• Unparalleled Company Client Base
• 3,500 Industrial Clients per annum
• From lone entrepreneurs to Japanese MNEs
• Unique Services to Government
• MOD, RAO , Home Office, NHS
• Extensive Public Sector, Technical Business
  Networks
• National Coverage, Regional Focus 27 UK Offices
• Market Leading Products
• Technology Opportunity Studies (TOPS)
• Systems Approach to Technology Knowledge
  Transfer
• Systems Engineering approach is powerful because
  it expresses capability requirements in a
  technology independent manner
• Economic Value Add

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Challenges
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Technology Transfer
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Technology Transfer
ENGINEERING
Application 1
Application 3
Application 2
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C4ISTAR Technology Transfer Success

• Technology Assessment
• Maturity
• Capability and Know How
• Provider IP
• Application
• Market needs analysis
• Cross market leveraging
• Product Robustness
• Market Cycle
• Competition
• Design for robustness techniques

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Cross Cutting Technologies
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Connecting Business to Technology
Military
Homeland Security
Space
Sensors
Architectures
C4ISTAR
Image Reconstitution
Transport
Industrial
ICT
Human System Interaction
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Connecting Business to Technology
C4ISTAR
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Connecting Business to Technology
Large Enterprises
C4ISTAR
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Connecting Business to Technology
Large Enterprises
Small, Medium Enterprises
C4ISTAR
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Connecting Business to Technology
Large Enterprises
Small, Medium Enterprises
C4ISTAR
Universities
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Opportunities
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Opportunity Overview

• Nature of the DDAs Business Remains..

• Exploiter has a Route to Market
• DDA supports viability
• DDA finds provider

• Provider has a Technology or Technology
  Capability
• DDA supports viability
• DDA finds exploiter

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Opportunity Definitions
From Exploiter Interview
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From Provider Interview
Alignment of Market Sectors to the DIS is
Essential
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Opportunity Outcomes

• Support is offered to the C4ISTAR Community to
  find the best match

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The Way Ahead
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ConclusionsHow Can We Support the C4ISTAR
Community?

• The DDA can help
• In the pursuit of the best ideas
• Extending those ideas
• and providing stakeholders with the best answers
  to strategic research problems faced by their
  customers
• Come and find out what we can do for you
• visit our Stand
• or visit www.dda.gov.uk