Marine South East to explore Dual-use Innovation
Marine South East has secured European funding to lead a new initiative to enable the Solent region to exploit its world-class strengths in civil and defence markets through a dual-use strategy.
Some time ago the Government and the Solent Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) recognised that a strategy was needed to ensure that the regional economy is less vulnerable to likely decline and volatility in defence procurement. This need was increased by a decision by BAE Systems in 2013 to redeploy future naval shipbuilding away from Portsmouth.
A number of successful dual-use capabilities already exist within the Solent region including the Centre of Maritime Intelligent Systems, the Marine Autonomous and Robotic Systems Centre, the new South Coast Satellite Applications Centre, the National Composites Centre hosted at GKN on the Isle of Wight, the Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute and Haslar Marine Technology Centre.
The high-level vision is to mobilise and finance a portfolio of new dual-use collaborative projects that exploit the strong dual-use innovation potential.
Marine South East will be hosting a workshop (date and venue to be confirmed) which will focus on dual-use opportunities in marine autonomous systems and surveillance and data analytics.
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