The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) is launching Phase 2 of Map the Gap – a competition to develop autonomous survey systems to help troops safely and stealthily advance over water.

This competition is seeking technologies to demonstrate an automated or autonomous system to reconnoitre a potential wide wet gap crossing site. This includes both the navigation to and from potential crossing site and data collection.

Phase 1 of this competition has indicated that it was possible to integrate existing sensors to delivery platforms to gather the physical gap measurements required. Submissions for Phase 2 should consider how a final system would be deployed within a military context.

Phase 2 has up to £2 million available to fund multiple proposals.

To support this there is a short survey to collect details of suppliers who wish to explore collaboration possibilities.

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