The enduring challenge competition is continually open and has a budget of up to £3M per year. It runs on a monthly cycle – see future closing dates.

The enduring challenge competition particularly seeks innovative, proof-of-concept research proposals. Areas of interest which are also relevant to Computer Scientists in Department are:

• protection (personnel, platforms, facilities, digital systems, materials)
• situational awareness (sensors, precision navigation and timing, reduced GPS dependency, persistent surveillance, status of digital systems)
• communications (secure, unsecure, mobile, novel forms)
• data (cyber, big data, management and processing, sense-making, visualisation, delivery, interoperability)

Further information on these monthly calls can be found at this link.