The UK Defense and Security Accelerator (DASA): Sample Preservation, Analysis, And Attribution (SPAA)

This competition seeks proposals for innovations that could help the successful identification of chemical and biological (ChemBio) materials and/or bring perpetrators to justice.

The challenges outlined in this competition are diverse in nature, therefore it is anticipated that proposals will address a certain area rather than covering multiple requirements.

There are three main challenge areas where innovative solutions and approaches are being sought:

• Challenge 1: New screening technologies for rapidly detecting or identifying the presence or class of hazardous ChemBio materials in a sample
• Challenge 2: New sample collection/preservation systems that better maintain the integrity and viability of hazardous samples
• Challenge 3: New analytical approaches to improve the forensic exploitation and the attribution of ChemBio materials and/or recovered chemical/biological weapons material (RC/BWM)

Up to £1 million is available to fund multiple innovations at Technology Readiness level (TRL) 2-4 to deliver fieldable prototypes/software (TRL6+) to support investigations into ChemBio incidents.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/sample-preservation-analysis-and-attribution-spaa