UK4 Notice - DDAITF/008 Computer Vision Capability - Model Arena Comp
Buyer: Ministry of Defence
- Published
- 3 September 2026
- Estimated value
- £2,500,000
- Place of performance
- UK
- Procedure
- Restricted procedure
- Lots
- 1
- Documents
- 1
- Notice number
- 083303-2026
- Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-06f0e7
- Official source
- Official source
CPV codes
- 72231000Development of software for military applications
- 72000000IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
Description
The Defence AI Model Arena is opening a new competition for suppliers developing computer vision (CV) capability relevant to UK Defence; this use case is sponsored by the Rapid AI Delivery Taskforce (Taskforce RAID). We are looking for suppliers who can demonstrate strong model performance against a military object detection use case and who are interested in working collaboratively with Defence to improve that capability using representative data and feedback from live exercise activity. The competition will use the Model Arena’s “demonstration by doing” approach: suppliers will be assessed on how their models actually perform against the use case, rather than on written proposals alone. The use case is to develop and deploy the CV – based components for autonomous drones in the land domain, operating within an AI enabled drone swarming system. This phase is focused on establishing an effective baseline for experimentation and iterative deployment. The intention is to evolve this capability and implement other sensing-specific AI domains and multiple layers of decision-making behaviour; any potential successful supplier would be a core component of an industry co-creation ecosys…
Official publications
- FTS · 083303-2026 · 3 September 2026
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