The Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE) has published details of the innovative research contracts it has funded, cohesively organising them online for the first time. Web browsers can now view, in one place, all of the contracts funded through CDE competitions – and the Enduring Challenge competition – for this year and the last two financial years.

CDE will continue to add to this information after successful contracts have been placed following each of its competitions.

Andy Nicholson, Head of CDE, said: “Industry across the board, both primes and SMEs, have told us that they would welcome much more visibility as to who has been awarded which contract by CDE. Openness and visibility are founding principles of CDE so I’m very pleased that we are now in a position to make this information available and easy to find.

“Since it opened in May 2008, CDE has received 5508 research proposals and funded 907 of these at phase 1 to a value of £55.7 million. Around 70% of CDE-funded contracts have gone to SMEs and innovators in academia.”