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- Sensors – The basic human need to know and understand your environment is of particular imperative to the Armed Forces. Defence is interested in the development of small, low-power, light-weight, multi-modal sensing capabilities for example to detect explosive and chemical substances, and radio frequency emissions.
- How can sensors and other advanced technologies in next generation police uniforms be powered efficiently in the field?
- Exploiting the electromagnetic spectrum - How do we develop approaches to maximise the use of the electronic spectrum in congested environments to ensure commanders are able to access the information they need? How can we improve secure transmission of information? How do we integrate new and emerging technological solutions with legacy equipment to achieve this communications edge?
- Assuring the integrity of documents (possibly electronic), for example involving distributed ledger technology and advances in materials.
- Ubiquitous sensing and processing - in the future, sensors will become smaller and cheaper leading to their wide availability both in civilian applications and in defence. They will also be available to our adversaries. How they are deployed and how the information they generate is managed and used will be key. We need to understand how they will be networked and how automation could be exploited to task and manage them.
- What technologies can be applied to drones to extend battery life and help to reduce replacement and maintenance costs?
- Advanced electronics: How will sensors, omics, geographical information systems, internet of things, be used to support regulation and enforcement needs across the agri-envrionmental and food sectors?
- Fast/high throughput trace detection and body scanners.
- Can Germanium on Silicon SPADS be introduced to LIDA systems for CAVs, providing greater accuracy when identifying surrounding attributes and over greater distances (using QKD to ensure a secure system)?
- How can we develop and exploit new methodologies to ensure cost-effective monitoring (for example remote sensing and environmental DNA)?
- What requirements should apply to navigation bridge sensors and controls for use in MASS, in particular human and machine interfaces, update rates, and data representation?
- Low-cost tools for detecting threat items in bags.