ploughshare overview slideshare 2015
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Agenda
Who are Ploughshare?
•What do we do?
•Spin-outs
•License Examples
•What do others have to say?
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Who are Ploughshare?
Ploughshare is wholly owned by the
Secretary of State for Defence
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Where does Ploughshare fit?
Industry Suppliers
Intellectual Property Creation and Transfer
Centre for Defence Enterprise
Industry Customers
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What does Ploughshare do?
New technologies. New realities
Benefit humanity
Innovative technology applications can be used to improve people’s lives
Drive economic growth
Sharing IP enables companies to succeed, employ, and generate wealth and economic growth
Raise financial returns
The revenues we earn enable future Government investment in technology
Bolster UK defence
Collaborating with suppliers supports UK defence and security, enhancing COTS products
Harnessing Innovation for a better world
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What does Ploughshare do?
Ploughshare are experts in:
• Licensing IP
• 110 MOD technologies commercialised through 50 current licenses/commercial
arrangements
• Commercialisation services
• 330 cases reviewed (2014)
• Spin-outs /Joint ventures – 11 Spin outs in total;
• 7 active, 2 sales, 2 wound-up
Complementary activities for Dstl:
• Supporting creativity through IP pipeline development
• Rewarding inventors
• Controlling IP costs
• Longer term: Off-the-shelf (COTS) opportunities for MODSlide
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Benefits to the UK economy
Dstl commissioned SQW Economic Consultancy study into non-financial benefits of Ploughshare.
Creation of 550 jobs to date in the UK so far
• £47 million in exports, plus a further £184 million by 2018/19
• Over £65 million GVA, plus a further £126 million by 2018/19
• Spin-outs attracted £130 million investment (public/private sector)
• Licensees £30M in R&D
Plus notable wider benefits for both the civilian and defence markets
• MOD access to new defence technologies and capabilities from UK firms
• First response and emergency services benefit from new technologies
• New health and well-being products for defence and civilian markets
Plus a range of benefits to Dstl scientists
• Scientists are more likely to pursue commercialisation activities in the future
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Spin-outsExamples
Spin-Outs
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Enigma Diagnostics
Rapid Detection & Identification of
bacteria and viruses at the point of
sampling
Applications:
• Biothreat
• Veterinary
• Point of care diagnostic
www.enigmadiagnostics.com
Spin-Outs
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P2i
Plasma Surface Coating Process
Applications:
• Electronics
• Lifestyle clothing and footwear
• Bio-consumables
• Military
www.p2ilabs.com
Spin-Outs
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ProKyma technologies Ltd.
Biological cell collection/analysis
instrumentation
Applications:
• In Vitro Diagnostics
• Life Sciences Research
www.prokyma.com
Spin-Outs
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Claresys Ltd
Optical Innovation
Applications:
• Surveillance
• Industrial Monitoring
www.claresys.com
Spin-Outs
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Subsea Asset Location Technology
(SALT) Ltd
Passive Underwater Beacons to allow easier
detection by SONAR
Applications:
• Fishing/Aquaculture
• Oil/Gas
• Utilities i.e Subsea power/telephone lines
• General marine (civil and military)
navigation
www.cesalt.com
Spin-Outs
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ESROE
Electronic Surveillance and Support software
solutions
Applications:
• Cutting edge information processing solutions
for Electronic Warfare systems
• World’s only Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS)
software for real-time identification of radar
signatures
• From armoured vehicles and UAVs to large
multi-role warships and surveillance aircraft
www.esroe.com
LicensesExamples
Human Identification
Speaker Recognition
Video Face Recognition
Speaker RecognitionNoise Adaptive Feature Matching (NAFM)
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Benefits
• Enrolment data could be noisy – NAFM can adjust to/from any SNR.
• Test speech does not require separate noise sample in the test data – NAFM can model speech data and noise data simultaneously.
Current Status
• Patent applied for 21st November 2012. Currently at PCT stage.
• The method is a software algorithm implemented in Mat lab.
• Low TRL (TRL 2) and needs proving for speaker recognition applications.
• Method shows promise but further development essential.
Video Face Recognition
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Problem:
Improving the performance of existing video face recognition technologies
Solution:
• Considers more than one frame at once.
• Exploiting techniques used by COTS
products to produce an improved
confidence match score.
• Useful for multiple faces / crowded
scenes.
• Works well with low quality and
challenging
video imagery.
• Easy to integrate with existing software
products from major vendors.
Electro Optics
Optically Addressable
Light Valve
EOPM
Optically Addressed Light Valve
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Problem: Protection from dazzle from sunlight, lasers, arc welders etc. for equipment and personnel
Solution:
Liquid crystal cell & photoconductive material
•Light can be limited or filtered to protect sensors or maintain vision
•Protection of CCTV/Surveillance cameras and equipment
Video of OALV in action
Defence & Security
Armour
Radar
Sonar
Tent door system
Super Bainite Steel
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Solution:
High Hardness Armoured Steel
Development of new secondary hardening process
• Lower weight
• Easier machining/shaping than conventional armoured steel
• Production Assessment conducted with Tata (260 Tonnes)
• Processing Licensees now being sought
Licensed to
Problem:No UK onshore production capability for armour steel
Ceramic Armour
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Requirement: Need lighter weight armour
Multi-round, co-incident hits – limited protection
Solution:
Ceramic armour panel element
Interlocking lugs dissipate energy to provide improved ballistics protection
Affords same protection for less weight or increased protection for same weight
Licence agreed in 2006 with an SME defence company with a royalty payable on non-MOD sales
Behind Armour Blunt Trauma Test Rig
Slide 25
Solution:
‘Benchmark’ test rig for body armour development
Measurement of rate of change not just depression
Non-contact measurement system avoids potential damage to test equipment
Potential to provide benchmark measurement system for testing various systems
Licensed to
Requirement:
Body Armour Development
Digital Radar Electronic Support Measures
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Requirement:
Maintaining the advantage in awareness capability
Solution:
Full digital radar
• Greater accuracy and improved sensitivity
• Increased quality of information
• Improved through life costs
• Potential to develop in areas beyond Naval
Licensed to
Audio Visual Acoustic Detection
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Problem: Assisting passive sonar operators with tools to aid interpretation of signals
Solution:
Simplifies passive sonar detection by providing sonar operators with rapid visual representation of audio data
Enables classification of the sound into one of the three categories;
• Mechanical
• Biological
• Environmental
Software implementation would sit in existing sonar system hardware
Tent door system
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Problem:
CBRN tent doors are either zips or bulky fixed mechanisms.
Solution:
Provides and airtight seal to prevent ingress of hazardous materials.
Self opening and closing door (can be operate manually.
Allows synchronisation of air-lock inner and outer door opening/closing.
Can be rolled up and detached for ease of storage and transport.
Light-weight and easy to lift and handle.
Cyber
CDCAT
Cyber Defence Capability Assessment Tool (CDCAT)
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Licensed to • Risk mitigation framework
• Model and methodology to quantify cyber defence capability
• Uses military doctrine joined to commercial service management
• Identifies:
• best practice - industry standards• weaknesses in a networked system• what is needed to improve IA
• Enables cyber defence auditing
• Offers practical business solutions, e.g. investment appraisal information
• Enables strategy development, policy, operations, risk management, programme delivery and capability planning
• Aims to offer a best practice approach to Government and Industry
Detection & Diagnostics
Sampling Device
Antibodies
Sample Device With Lateral Flow Strips
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Problem:
A need to rapidly identify multiple
potential materials in a single sample
Solution:• An integrated sampling device that can be used to swab
a surface and collect a sample, allowing immediate identification.
• The device can incorporate up to 8 separate lateral flow diagnostic strips, which can be selected to suit the situation.
• Robust and can be used when wearing gloves• Self-contained, no added reagents or power source• Sample is retained for further testing or audit
Licensed to
Untreated Treated
Antibodies and reagents
Slide 33
Problem:
A need to develop diagnostic tests for
biological and explosive targets
Solution:• Dstl have developed 100’s of antibody cell lines and
reagents that have been made available for licence
• Biological threat
• Explosives
• Ebola virus diagnostics
Licensed to
Untreated Treated
