24 june 2015: open-source big data insight
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Information Systems and Services
ISS service development
Open-source big data challenge
24 June 2015
Steve Latchem
Head of Application Services & DevOps
Open-source big data insight: context CDE competition initiated as part of the Defence CIO Symposium Programme
(www.ciosymposium.co.uk), but a separate activity and timeline
Leveraging CDE’s unique model to engage SMEs, academia, individuals and
industry
Unique opportunity to engage strategically with defence’s big data strategy
Defence transformation: industry engagement
New industry dialogue
Understand needs
Align strategic
intent
Leverage research and development
Engage new partners
Find untapped capability
Open-source big data insight: CDE competition
£250,000 of funding for potentially multiple demonstrators
• we hope to fund up to 5 solutions for an 8-week demonstration exercise
Leading to £2 million capability-building contract, subject to
exploitable solutions being presented
What we want
Optical character recognition (OCR), natural language processing (NLP) and dictionaries / semantic understanding
What we don’t want
Solutions without agility and slow release cycles
No support for open standards and architecture
Concepts rather than software
Partial solutions that don’t integrate
Competition timelines
Webinar 17 July 2015
Competition close 13 August 2015 at 5pm
Feedback provided to unsuccessful
bidders
Early October 2015
Contract placement initiated for
winning bidders
From 17 September 2015
Phase-1 projects 5 October to 30 November 2015
Demonstration day 30 November and 1 December 2015