Past Opportunities

Find relevant information related to past Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS) opportunities. Please note that this information does not apply to the current IDEaS opportunities and is available for reference only.

Innovation Networks – Call #1

For the first Innovation Network Call for proposals, the Department of National Defence was seeking to stimulate the development of revolutionary advances in materials science for defence & security applications, with a focus on emerging and advanced materials, including advanced manufacturing methods. 

• CFPMN 1 – Advanced Materials
• CFPMN 1 - List of accepted Letters of Intent
• CFPMN 1 – Signed Contribution Agreements
  

Innovation Networks – Call #2

For the second Innovation Network Call for proposals, the Department of National Defence was seeking to promote revolutionary advances in our understanding of autonomous systems for defence & security applications, with a focus on trust and barriers to adoption. 

• CFPMN 2 – Autonomous Systems
• CFPMN 2 - List of accepted Letters of Intent
• CFPMN 2 – Signed Contribution Agreements
  

Competitive Projects – Call #1

The Department of National Defence solicited proposals to address challenges in domains such as surveillance, cyber tools for defence, space, artificial intelligence, remotely pilot systems, data analytics, and human performance.

• Complete list of Defence and Security Challenges related to first Competitive Projects Call for Proposals
• Recipients of first funding component (up to $200,000 contract award)
• Recipients of second funding component (up to an additional $1,000,000 contract award)
  

Competitive Projects – Call #2

The Department of National Defence solicited proposals to address challenges such as the detection of concealed explosives, alternative recruitment models, verification of full motion video integrity, understanding cyber intent, and full spectrum communications in the Arctic.

• Complete list of Defence and Security Challenges related to the second Competitive Projects Call for Proposals
• Recipients of first funding component (up to $200,000 contract award)

Competitive Projects - Call #3

The Department of National Defence solicited proposals to address challenges such as predicting the behaviour of adversaries, seeking smaller, ruggedized wind turbines for the arctic, removing frozen contaminants from aircraft, tracking and de-orbiting space debris, and shrinking quantum technologies for field operations.

• Complete list of Defence and Security Challenges related to the third Competitive Projects Call for Proposals

Sandbox RFI 2018-1

A Request For Information regarding five Challenges was closed on 24 September 2018.  Opportunities for the resultant Sandboxes are being developed and will be published later in 2018-19.

• Sandbox RFI 2018-1
• Findings to Sandbox RFI

Sandbox Call For Applications,  Counter Unmanned Aerial Systems (CUAS), 26 April to 27 May.  How might we detect and/or defeat (kinetically or non-kinetically) micro and mini Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS)?

• Sandbox Call For Applications  Counter Unmanned Aerial Systems (CUAS)
• Sandbox Call For Applications
• Annex D - Counter Unmanned Aerial Systems (CUAS)