Four innovative organisations have been awarded funding to develop cutting edge remote sensing innovations for defence, security and nuclear decommissioning applications.

The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA), and Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) are pleased to announce that four innovators have been awarded a share of £2 million funding to develop remote sensing innovations to help monitor legacy nuclear sites.

The funding, secured from the Remote Monitoring of Sensitive Sites: Phase 2 Themed Competition, will allow the organisations to develop technologies that can form the basis of an Autonomous Security Alarm and Interdiction Network (ASAIN) to remotely keep the sites secure.

The funded technologies will autonomously monitor, track and detect security breaches. This not only keeps human operators out of harm’s way, but also provides the information they need to inform their response.

The competition focused primarily on solutions for lower risk sites where defueling is nearly complete, which can be implemented when they no longer contain any nuclear material and when ‘nuclear security’ measures are no longer proportionate, so costs can be reduced.