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1. Overview聽

The Unlocking Space for Government (USG) programme is the UK Space Agency鈥檚 strategic adoption programme, helping public sector organisations harness satellite data, communications, positioning, navigation and timing services, and other space-enabled capabilities to improve public services, strengthen operational performance and support better decision-making.

Space-enabled technologies already support a wide range of public sector activities, including monitoring the natural environment, managing transport and infrastructure networks, strengthening resilience to natural hazards, improving situational awareness during emergencies, and providing trusted information to support planning and operational decision-making. As these capabilities continue to mature, there are growing opportunities to apply them more widely to help public sector organisations deliver services more efficiently, improve resilience and address increasingly complex operational challenges.

USG helps public sector organisations realise these opportunities by working collaboratively to identify where space-enabled capabilities can deliver tangible operational value and by addressing the practical barriers that can slow adoption. This includes developing the evidence needed to support investment decisions, reducing implementation risk, bringing together users and suppliers, and helping organisations progress from exploring an opportunity to operational deployment and long-term use.

Public sector organisations can also play an important role as early adopters and anchor customers for emerging space-enabled services. By helping to demonstrate demand, validate capabilities in operational settings and create credible pathways to procurement and long-term use, USG can help innovative companies build market confidence, attract investment and scale. In this way, increasing public sector adoption can both improve public services and contribute to the growth and competitiveness of the UK space sector.

The programme is focused on achieving public sector outcomes rather than technology development alone. Activity is prioritised where there is a clearly defined operational need, a credible pathway to implementation and adoption, and the potential to support wider government priorities while creating opportunities for UK innovation, capability and economic growth.

2. Our Priority Missions

To 2030, USG is organised around five priority missions where there is both a recognised public sector need and a credible role for space-enabled capability. These missions provide the framework for identifying, prioritising and developing opportunities that can deliver meaningful public value while supporting wider government objectives.

National Security and Resilience

This mission supports the adoption of space-enabled capabilities that can strengthen situational awareness, monitoring, decision-making and operational resilience across national security, emergency preparedness, resilience and wider public protection activities.

Areas of interest may include border and maritime security, emergency preparedness and response, critical national infrastructure resilience, environmental hazards, and the monitoring of activities that pose risks to public safety or national interests. The mission supports the integration of space-enabled services into operational workflows and decision-making processes, particularly where timely, reliable and wide-area intelligence can improve outcomes.

2.1 Infrastructure and Transport Resilience

This mission focuses on improving the resilience, safety and efficiency of critical infrastructure and transport systems through the use of satellite-enabled data, communications, positioning, navigation and timing services, and associated analytics and decision-support tools.

The programme supports opportunities that improve the planning, operation and management of infrastructure assets and networks, including transport, energy, utilities and the built environment. This may include applications relating to infrastructure monitoring, climate adaptation, natural hazards, asset condition assessment, resilient communications, network performance, operational decision-making and long-term infrastructure planning.

The mission also recognises the importance of resilient connectivity and positioning services in supporting modern infrastructure and transport operations. This includes improving communications in remote, rural and hard-to-reach locations, enhancing operational awareness across complex networks and strengthening the resilience of essential services.

Activity under this mission aims to support more informed decision-making, reduce operational risk, improve service reliability and enable infrastructure owners and operators to embed space-enabled capabilities as part of day-to-day operations.

Health and Care System Transformation

This supports the adoption of satellite-enabled connectivity, data and services to help transform health and care delivery across the UK.

Areas of interest include improving access to services in underserved or hard-to-reach locations, supporting more preventative and community-based models of care, strengthening the resilience and efficiency of healthcare infrastructure, and enabling better use of data to support planning and decision-making. The mission supports opportunities where space-enabled capabilities can contribute to wider health system priorities, improving patient outcomes while supporting a more sustainable, resilient and efficient health and care system.

The mission also considers how satellite-derived data and analytics can support the planning, management and resilience of healthcare estates, including applications relating to energy efficiency, climate resilience, infrastructure performance and the long-term management of NHS facilities and assets.

Environment and Resource Intelligence

This mission focuses on the use of space-enabled data and analytics to support environmental monitoring, resource management and evidence-based decision-making.

The programme supports challenges relating to water quality, emissions monitoring, land use, natural resource management, land stability and wider environmental resilience. Activity under this mission aims to improve the availability and use of timely, reliable and actionable information to support policy development, regulation, operational decision-making and environmental stewardship.

Place-Based Adoption through Space-Enabled Regions

This mission supports regional and local partners to identify priority challenges and adopt space-enabled services in a coordinated and sustainable way.

The mission recognises that many public sector challenges are experienced and managed at a local or regional level. Working with local authorities, combined authorities, devolved administrations and regional partnerships, USG aims to develop repeatable approaches that help regions identify opportunities, build capability and embed space-enabled services into public service delivery. The aim is to create practical approaches that can be replicated across different parts of the UK while supporting regional growth, innovation and public service improvement.

3. Submit an Expression of Interest

USG welcomes expressions of interest from organisations seeking to explore how space-enabled capabilities could help address public sector challenges aligned with one or more of the programme鈥檚 priority missions.

The expression of interest process helps the programme identify emerging demand, understand user needs and assess opportunities for future collaboration and intervention. It is intended to support challenge-led engagement and is not a route for procurement, commercial endorsement, supplier accreditation or funding applications.

What we鈥檙e looking for

The programme is particularly interested in public sector challenges where there is a clear operational need, evidence of user demand and a realistic pathway towards implementation and adoption.

This may include challenges where existing approaches are unable to provide the coverage, resilience, timeliness or insight required to support decision-making, service delivery or operational outcomes. It may also include opportunities where space-enabled capabilities could help address emerging policy priorities, improve efficiency, reduce risk or strengthen resilience.

USG is especially interested in opportunities that have the potential to deliver benefits beyond a single organisation, project or location, creating approaches, capabilities or lessons that can be adopted more widely across the public sector.

Who should submit an expression of interest

The strongest submissions clearly describe the public sector challenge, identify the intended public sector end user, and explain why a space-enabled approach may offer advantages over existing methods.

Submissions should focus on the problem, user need and desired outcomes rather than specific technologies or products. Evidence of engagement with relevant public sector stakeholders, operational users or policy owners will help demonstrate that the opportunity is grounded in a genuine operational requirement and has the potential to progress towards adoption.

Priority will be given to opportunities where public sector organisations, operational users or policy owners are actively engaged in defining the requirement and shaping the desired outcomes.

If you are considering submitting an expression of interest and would like to discuss whether your challenge is relevant to the programme, you can contact the Unlocking Space for Government team at unlockingspace@dsit.gov.uk. The team can provide general guidance on the programme and EOI process but cannot provide assurance that an opportunity will be selected for further support.

How expressions of interest are assessed

Expressions of interest are assessed against a range of factors. These include alignment with the programme鈥檚 priority missions and wider government priorities, the strength of the identified challenge, the potential public value that could be delivered, the maturity and feasibility of the proposed approach, the likelihood of adoption, and the opportunity to generate 聽benefits that can be scaled or replicated across organisations, sectors or regions.

Consideration is also given to stakeholder engagement, potential strategic impact, and the extent to which an opportunity could support more efficient, resilient or effective public service delivery.

Expressions of interest are assessed on the strength of the public sector challenge and the potential opportunity for adoption, rather than on the basis of a particular supplier or solution. Where an opportunity progresses to activity involving suppliers, any subsequent procurement or funding process will be undertaken separately and in accordance with the applicable requirements. In developing interventions, USG will also consider the potential to support UK capability, innovation and economic growth.

What happens next

Submitting an expression of interest does not guarantee funding, support or inclusion within the programme. Opportunities will be considered alongside existing programme priorities, available resources and their potential to deliver meaningful public sector outcomes.

If you have identified a public sector challenge that aligns with one or more of the programme鈥檚 priority missions, please complete the .