Counter Uncrewed Aerial Systems (C-UAS) Exposition - RFI

Description

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) Customer: Jt C-UAS Office (JCO), HQ AIR Command, Spitfire Block, RAF High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, HP14 4UE and 7th Air Defence Gp, Baker Barracks, Thorney Island, Emsworth, PO10 8DH. Please submit your response via (up to OFFICIAL) email to Maj Benjamin Hellmers at benjamin.hellmers312@mod.gov.uk. If your response is at OFFICIAL-SENSITIVE, you must submit this via Defence Share (Defence Share - Defence Share). You will need to be provided access to Defence Share to submit a response. Please contact Maj Benjamin Hellmers in the first instance who will be able to arrange this. Date response required: 21st March 2025 7th Air Defence Gp and The Joint Counter-UAS Office are holding a Counter-Uncrewed Aerial Systems (C-UAS) exposition to discuss current and emerging technologies and strategies for countering UAS threats. The event will seek to clarify current and emerging Defence thinking and funded programmes and provide a forum for Industry to represent their approaches. This will develop the knowledge base and help fuel discussion points for future lines of effort for C-UAS measures. The exposition will be for MoD internal stakeholders, Home Office, and Industry with the purpose of discussing specific topic areas in depth with the opportunity to demonstrate equipment. The JCO and 7AD Gp invites expressions of interest from attendees from companies specialising in and/or supplying equipment relevant to these C-UAS topic areas: o Detection - Active and passive o Situational awareness o Planning support o Command & Control systems o Effectors - lethal/nonlethal and kinetic/non-kinetic o Jamming o RF o Novel approaches o Generalist and specialist capabilities The exposition will be held on 16th July 2025 hosted by 7AD Gp at Baker Barracks, Thorney Island, PO10 8DH. Attendees will be provided with a standard sized 'pitch' indoors, with opportunities for demonstration of capabilities outdoors, if required. Further details and arrangements for the day will be provided later when the attendee list has been finalised. The exposition is not indication of intent to place future work with Industry - it is an opportunity for Industry to support the work of MoD and Home Office stakeholders. It will not provide any new information on MoD procurement which will be managed separately and in line with UK government legislation and policy, as relevant. This Request for Information (RFI) seeks responses from companies wishing to attend that can provide valuable input to discussion on the above topics. Respondents are requested to provide the following information: - The names of proposed attendees (max 4 per company) - Confirmation of proposed attendees security clearance - Confirmation of Nationality and any dual National status of proposed attendees - A summary of the company's area of expertise and equipment supply related to the listed C-UAS topics Additional information: Please note the following general conditions: - All costs associated with the production of a response to this RFI and attendance at the exposition shall be borne entirely by the respondent. - No information provided in response to this RFI will be carried forward, used, or acknowledged in any way for the purpose of evaluating the respondent in any subsequent formal procurement process. - All information provided by respondents shall be treated as commercially sensitive and not shared with any third parties - Discussion at the event will be limited to a maximum classification of Official-Sensitive; responses to this RFI should be limited to the same. - Attendance at the event is entirely at the discretion of the Authority - The Authority reserves the right to cancel or amend the forum events at any time and without liability for costs of production of RFI responses. TIMETABLE The RFI will be open for the period until 21st March 2025.