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HMGCC Co-Creation Challenge: AI-enhanced x-ray imaging for bomb disposal

The HMGCC Co-Creation Challenge is a competition offering up to £60,000 for UK-based businesses, universities and research organisations of any size to develop AI-enhanced x-ray imaging for bomb disposal. This scheme has closed.

Run by HMGCC, HMGCC Co-Creation

Checked against the official page (iuk-business-connect.org.uk) on 5 Oct 2026.

This scheme has closed

It closed on 29 October 2026. It stays here in case it reopens; check with the organisation for future rounds. We do not know where it was open, so these are for the whole North.

Develop a machine learning solution to identify and characterise electronic components from x-ray images for bomb disposal. Up to £60,000 total budget for up to two proposals.

Status and deadline

Status

Closed

Confirmed on the official page

Deadline

Closed 29 October 2026

As stated: Opens: 28/09/2026. Closes: 29/10/2026.

Confirmed on the official page

How much

Total budget (ex VAT) up to £60,000. Up to two proposals may be funded.

Whole fund: £60,000, shared between applicants

Not confirmed on the official page

Who can apply

Sole innovators, industry, academic and research organisations of all types and sizes can apply. Solution providers or direct collaboration from countries listed by the UK government under trade sanctions and/or arms embargoes are not eligible.

Confirmed on the official page

Business size

Any size

Not confirmed on the official page

Sectors

electronics, robotics and ai, security and defence, sensors

How to apply

Find out more and apply via the link provided.

Not confirmed on the official page

Where it is open: UK-wide

United Kingdom

Not confirmed on the official page

HartlepoolMiddlesbroughRedcar and ClevelandStockton-on-TeesDarlingtonHaltonWarringtonBlackburn with DarwenBlackpoolKingston upon Hull, City ofEast Riding of YorkshireNorth East LincolnshireNorth LincolnshireYorkCounty DurhamCheshire EastCheshire West and ChesterNorthumberlandCumberlandWestmorland and FurnessNorth YorkshireBurnleyChorleyFyldeHyndburnLancasterPendlePrestonRibble ValleyRossendaleSouth RibbleWest LancashireWyreBoltonBuryManchesterOldhamRochdaleSalfordStockportTamesideTraffordWiganKnowsleyLiverpoolSt. HelensSeftonWirralDoncasterRotherhamNewcastle upon TyneNorth TynesideSouth TynesideSunderlandBradfordCalderdaleKirkleesLeedsWakefieldGatesheadBarnsleySheffield

Open across United Kingdom, so every council area in the North of England is shaded.

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Source and last checked

Local Landscape gathers this information automatically from the pages below, then checks the key details against the official page. Checked against the official page (iuk-business-connect.org.uk) on 5 Oct 2026. Its details last changed on 30 Oct 2026. No person has checked it, so confirm the details with HMGCC before you apply.

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