South West Regional Defence and Security Cluster
The UK’s first pan-Defence and Security Cluster
About the Cluster and its purpose
The SWRDSC is the first pan-Defence and Security cluster in the UK. It forms a collaboration led by industry and academia with the support of government and its ministerial departments such as the MOD and its innovation directorate, and the Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA).
The cluster seeks to aggregate and raise the profile of regional D&S capability to stimulate greater sector knowledge, business, economic growth and productivity across the South West region. It will attract businesses of all scales with an interest in D&S to deliver new sector and cross-sector capability. It aims to apply a ‘Team UK’ approach to enable more joined up working between industry, academia and government, providing an efficient and accessible route to industry curation and the region’s D&S value chain.
Collaboration
The SW RDSC shall provide access to a greater pan-sector network and provide opportunity for collaboration
Funding Streams
Unlocking the path to engage with key stakeholders and funding bodies, for tradition and non-traditional defence suppliers
South West
Full membership is open to Organisations in the regions of Cornwall & IoS, Heart of the South West, and Dorset LEP
NEWS & EVENTS
Helping the military shrink its cyber attack surface- DASA
Helping the military shrink its cyber attack surface The Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) is pleased to launch a new Open Call Innovation Focus Area (IFA) called Reducing the Cyber Attack Surface, which aims to develop technologies that reduce the opportunity...
Autonomous Resilient Cyber Defence – Intelligent Agents
Do you have the solution to develop autonomous cyber defence agents to protect military networks and systems? Threats to UK communications, networks, and information & platform systems are growing, risking our ability to engage in multi-domain operations with...
Defence and Security Accelerator Defence Innovation Loans Webinar – 3 August 2021
Join the Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) webinar on 3 August to find out about our brand new Defence Innovation Loans. Our experts will be on hand to give you their best tips for strong applications and to answer your questions. The Defence and...
MEMBERSHIP
- Membership of the SW RDSC is open to traditional and non-traditional D&S businesses, Higher Education and research institutions.
- The Cluster’s geographical boundaries for membership are related to the coverage of Cornwall and Isle of Scilly, Dorset and Heart of the South West LEPs.
- Membership categories are Full, Affiliate and Strategic
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@southwestrdsc
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