UK registered organisations can apply for a share of up to £25 million to develop secure, sustainable or sovereign connectivity technologies that support the UK’s Advanced Connectivity Technologies programme. This funding is from DSIT.
The three challenge areas are:
supports innovations that enable more energy efficient and spectrum efficient networks.
Sovereign Telecoms Components and Applications: the Integrated Security Fund (ISF) aligned category focuses on developing sovereign UK capability in critical telecoms hardware and sensing technologies, with an emphasis on advanced Radio Frequency (RF) and integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) systems that strengthen national resilience. Projects should demonstrate components with dual civil and defence applications to enhance the UK’s technological advantage. Projects should be aimed at reinforcing the UK telecoms industrial base and support sovereign production, manufacturing scale up, and greater strategic autonomy.
Your projects must:
Your project must: have a grant funding request between £200,000 and £5 million, last between 3 to 24 months, start by 1 September 2026 and end by 31 August 2028. Any funded organisation needs to carry out their project work in the UK and must intend to exploit the project results from or in the UK. To lead a collaborative project your organisation must be a UK registered business of any size. The consortium must contain at least one UK registered SME claiming grant funding on this application. Subcontractors are allowed in this competition. You can use a previously submitted application to apply for this competition.
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