The UK market offers opportunities for innovative U.S. companies that produce smart grid technology.

After Brexit, the impact upon the UK’s Information and communication technology sector largely depends upon what model the UK adopts for its relationship with the EU. 

The UK MOD’s Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) is seeking proposals for innovative technologies that provide an improved way to rapidly detect and locate hazardous biological agents in the field for the benefit of defense and security operations. 

5G has begun rolling out across the UK thanks to strong commitment and investment from both the UK government and the UK network operators. 

The UK will likely be granted the right to import and export energy free of tariffs from and to other World Trade Organization members with potential longer-term impacts related to the UK’s relationship with the EU’s Internal Energy Market. 

The UK’s Ministry of Defense (MOD) is launching a competition to rapidly develop novel technology and techniques to boost the UK’s life-saving counter homemade bomb capability. 

The UK MOD is seeking proposals that can help UK defense and security to develop capability in ‘Behavioral Analytics’. $2.5M is currently available to fund to fund proposals to further increase the maturity of innovations in ‘Behavioral Analytics’. 

The UK Ministry of Defense (MOD) is exploring the utility of telexistence capabilities which is defined by MOD as a system which allows a human user to operate in an environment without physically being there. 

The UK Ministry of Defense (MOD) has funding available for industry and academia to help tackle the Defense Innovation Priorities. 

International Space Pitch Day is a joint U.S. - UK initiative to find, fund and fast-track innovation and technology that gives advantage to military operations in the space domain. 

SaaS is big business in the UK and the market for software delivered as a service is expanding rapidly, both in B2B and B2C markets. 

The UK is looking for novel technologies and techniques that can rapidly be developed to deliver life-saving protection against Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs). 

The UK is seeking proposals that can develop the technology needed to counter Unmanned Air Systems and demonstrate how these can be integrated together to form a capable system. The total funding available for companies with novel technology to develop is approximately $1.9m. 

The digital healthcare market in the United Kingdom may be attractive to U.S. firms.