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Cap Vista seeks innovative solutions to address challenges published on this website. We focus on accelerating the adoption of commercial technologies to solve real challenges at speed.
We publish challenge statements and invite global companies, startups and academia to submit proposals which could enhance Singapore's national security.
After evaluating the submitted proposals, we will invite shortlisted participants to pitch their proposals and to address any queries from our evaluation panel which will comprise all relevant parties.
Each successful participant will be awarded a fully-funded trial that covers the costs of validating their solution for our use case(s). The trial may be in the form of proofs-of-concept, experiments, demonstrations, or any other reasonable ideas as proposed in the submitted application.
We aim to award suitable companies, startups and academia within 60 days after the submission deadline. Awarded companies, startups and academia will gain the opportunity to work directly with our end users to showcase and validate your solutions for national security applications. If your solution demonstrates success and good potential, we aim to scale your solutions quickly.
1. We are seeking solutions capable of differentiating between Operational Technology (OT) system faults and cyber threats.
Operational Technology (OT) systems monitoring and controlling critical infrastructure such as, power Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) or hydrogen production system, face a challenge in distinguishing system faults and malicious cyber threats. A genuine sensor failure and a sensor spoofing attack may produce identical anomalies. OT legacy systems may also make forensic analysis harder.
Cost of longer-term engagement beyond the trial.
This challenge statement is jointly sponsored by Cap Vista and ST Engineering. Each successful participant may be awarded a contract by Cap Vista to demonstrate their technology in a fully funded short-term trial and/or potential investment from ST Engineering.
2. We are seeking remote access solutions to secure the Operational Technology (OT) environment.
Operational Technology (OT) systems managing critical infrastructure such as power grids, manufacturing plants, and water treatment facilities increasingly require secure remote access capabilities. Traditional IP-based remote access solutions introduce risks from cyber threats, data leaks, and unauthorized access, potentially compromising system integrity. There is a critical need to enable secure, robust remote access without exposure to IP-based vulnerabilities and enforcing such access with hardware-based barriers for retention of physical isolation.
We are seeking innovative solutions that provide non-IP, hardware-enforced, air-gapped remote access that is both ultra-low-latency and provides linear scalability. The solution should significantly enhance cybersecurity by physically eliminating IP-related vulnerabilities and ensuring secure remote operation and monitoring of OT environments.
Cost of longer-term engagement beyond the trial.
This challenge statement is jointly sponsored by Cap Vista and ST Engineering. Each successful participant may be awarded a contract by Cap Vista to demonstrate their technology in a fully funded short-term trial and/or potential investment from ST Engineering.
3. How might we protect sensitive data from cyber threats across various cloud configurations?
Organisations are increasing their adoption of cloud-based capabilities on both commercial and on-premise clouds. Hence, it is crucial to safeguard sensitive data placed within these clouds from multi-cyber threats ranging from cloud service providers admin threats, insider admin risks, threats from external connections and 3rd party hardware/software vulnerabilities and side channels.
Innovative Solutions that:
The solution will be assessed and tested in real or simulated cloud environments to assess its effectiveness against real-world cyber threats:
Cost of longer-term engagement beyond the trial.
This challenge statement is jointly sponsored by Cap Vista and ST Engineering. Each successful participant may be awarded a contract by Cap Vista to demonstrate their technology in a fully funded short-term trial and/or potential investment from ST Engineering.
4. We are seeking AI-powered platforms capable of ingesting multi-modal data to enhance ab initio aviation training programmes.
Ab initio aviation trainee programmes often follow a standardized ‘one-size-fits-all’ process, which may be inefficient and limiting in training outcomes. We are seeking AI-powered platform solutions that may ingest multi-modal data to streamline and personalize the experience for trainees and to enhance overall training outcomes.
A single AI-powered platform solution that could ingest and analyse multi-modal data from sources including training management systems, courseware materials from learning management systems, simulation sessions or live flights to perform key functionalities such as:
As part of the submission, you should:
AI- powered capabilities as described above.
The company should propose a minimal 3-month trial for users to assess your solution’s capabilities described above. During the trial, we may furnish information such as generic course content or planning constraints such as availabilities of equipment/personnel and/or weather conditions.
The company may propose as options:
5. We are seeking cost-effective unmanned surface vessels (USVs) for logistics operations.
Current maritime logistic operations rely heavily on manned vessels, which can be repetitive and labour-intensive. As the demand for cost-effective and efficient logistics operations grows, there is increasing interests for cost-effective Commercial Off-the-Shelf unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) for performing a range of logistic operations at sea such as transportation of supplies etc.
As part of your submission, you should indicate the following:
6. We are seeking resilient communication solutions for small moving vessels.
Maritime operations depend on real-time communication for navigation, logistics, safety, and emergency response. However, moving vessels encounter significant connectivity challenges due to harsh environmental conditions, interference, and the vast distances from land-based infrastructure. Traditional communication systems often suffer from delays, signal disruptions, and coverage limitations, or have small bandwidth and high latency not suitable for real-time data and video communications.
We seek innovative communication solutions that ensure resilient and secure, high-bandwidth and low-latency data and video connectivity for small moving vessels in maritime environments. These solutions should enhance real-time data exchange between ships, offshore installations, and coastal facilities, overcoming obstacles such as signal reliability, latency, and bandwidth.
Potential implementation approaches may include wireless communication innovations (non-radio frequency solution is acceptable), mesh networking and hybrid satellite-terrestrial systems, adaptive networking, low-power long-range protocols or AI-driven data/video compression, error correction or data signal transmission techniques.
Companies may share actual past trial deployment results and frequency band utilization, if available for our assessment.
Companies, startups and academia can register on the platform and submit their proposals by completing the application form.
Submitted proposals will be evaluated based on innovativeness and relevance of the solution, feasibility, and readiness for implementation. We will invite shortlisted participants to present their solutions over a pitching session.
Shortlisted participants will pitch their solutions to our evaluation panel, which includes our challenge statement owners and technical experts. For non-Singapore-based participants, the pitching can be conducted virtually.
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