Poland Military Students Tender

The Ministry of National Defense together with military universities - Military University of Technology Naval Academy Aviation Military Academy and the Academy of Land Forces - are organizing a competition for the development and implementation of an unmanned aerial system UAV and unmanned maritime system BSM for the needs of the Polish Army. The competition is aimed at cadets and civilian students and doctoral students of military universities. The value of the main prize in both categories - unmanned aerial system and unmanned maritime system - is 50000 PLN each. PLN.The competition announced today is primarily aimed at developing and implementing projects for unmanned systems as well as supporting and developing research potential. One of the other goals is to increase the interest of students and doctoral students of military universities in the search for innovative solutions for state security and defense. BSP BSM projects will be assessed in terms of traceability and target recognition combat capabilities terrain monitoring capabilities and the possibility of specific measurements e.g. pollution level.The competition which consists of two stages will be adjudicated on June 8 2021 stage I until 01312021 stage II on 02142021.One of the priorities of Mariusz Baszczak the Minister of National Defense is to make greater use of the potential of Polish scientists for the Polish Army and the Polish defense industry. The Ministry of National Defense is working on a document defining the goals and directions of scientific research for the needs of state defense in a 15-year perspective. The document is to provide for the use of the potential of not only the Ministry of National Defense but also of Polish scientists national research and development entities key to the development of technologies for the Polish Army.In 2020 the head of the Ministry of National Defense established the Department of Innovation one of the tasks of which is to initiate and create mechanisms to support the innovation policy in the ministrys scientific and research community including the organization of competitions to support scientific and research activities.