Dstl invites UK organisations to submit IED detection concepts

Experts at the MoD’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) are accepting applications to work with them, potentially to take part in a series of IED detection demonstration days that will take place between 3 September 2012 and 31 January 2013.

In a statement, Dstl said it is interested in concepts at a very early stage of development through to those at the prototype stage.

Industry and academia with the most promising and sufficiently developed submissions will be invited to a Dstl site where the innovations will be tested against a representative threat. In particular, the sensing challenges will focus on concealed IEDs, either worn by a person or hidden in a vehicle, buried by or in the roadside or hidden in a wall, box, bag or other container.

Organisations with a selected submission will work with Dstl and military subject matter experts to design a scenario suited to the technological maturity of their proposed sensing solution.