In December 2022, NATO Allies agreed that energy resilience, secure information sharing, and sensing and surveillance should be the priority areas of focus for DIANA’s work in 2023. The three areas made up the backbone of DIANA’s 2023 Strategic Direction and have defined DIANA’s first challenges to innovators.
In an uncertain and changing world, there is an urgent need for more reliable, resilient and efficient energy solutions – particularly in the aftermath of natural disasters or in conflict zones. Hence, for the Energy Resilience challenge, DIANA sought technology solutions that enabled the modular design of microgrids that can meet supply demands reliably.
For the Secure Information Sharing challenge, we were looking for ways of creating a secure and trusted information environment – with the emphasis on live data streams such as those used to provide near real-time video, augmented reality feeds, digital radio, and beyond.
For the Sensing and Surveillance challenge, we were seeking for components and systems for sensing and information gathering in subsurface coastal zones. Applications of interest might have included, but were not limited to, novel techniques and/or advanced capabilities for seafloor mapping, undersea infrastructure monitoring, manmade object and marine-life tracking, climate-change-effects sensing, and patterns-of-life visualisations.
More detailed information about DIANA’s 2023 challenges is available on the Challenges page.