Innovation Challenges

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Solicitation for Countering Mis/Disinformation & Deepfakes
Challenge Owner(s) Cap Vista
Organiser(s) Cap Vista
Industry Type(s) Digital/ICT
Opportunities and Support Opportunities to validate solutions with challenge statement owners through project trials.
Application Start Date 19 May 2026
Application End Date 24 June 2026
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About Challenge

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 innovators within 60 days after the submission deadline. Awarded providers 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 it quickly.

Context

AI-driven misinformation and disinformation evolve and scale rapidly in tandem with technology advancement; we seek up-to-date tools constantly to detect them.​

What We Are Looking For
Solutions that can effectively detect elements of AI‑driven misinformation and disinformation campaigns, such as:​
  • Attribution assessment of threat actors​.
  • Simulation of online spaces​.
  • Assessment of Generative Engine Optimization-driven manipulation​.
  • Any other areas (please specify)​.
Key Metrics
  • Clarity and explainability e.g. evidence-based reasoning and transparency of assessment​.
  • Range of indicators​.
Your Technology Solution Should Demonstrate
  • Its technical readiness and deployment requirements.​
  • Where applicable, a video demonstration of your solution.
What A Trial Looks Like
  • We seek a one-month trial via SaaS (Software as a Service), secure API (Application Programming Interface), or on-premise with shortlisted companies for our internal evaluation at no cost to us.
  • If successful, we seek to subscribe to your solution for one-year, including training and documentation.​
What We Are Not Looking For
  • Manpower‑intensive solutions.
  • System integration services​.​
  • Indifferentiable value from open-source offerings​.
Follow-on Implementation Cost​
  • Long-term pricing model​.
  • If applicable, cost for an on-prem solution​.
Challenge Owner(s)Cap Vista
Context

Deepfakes, AI-generated fakes and cheapfakes may be produced and disseminated at scale.

What We Are Looking For
Novel solutions that may reliably detect manipulated media. Examples include the following but not limited to:
  • Deepfakes, face-swaps and lip-syncs within images / videos.
  • Fully AI-generated images / videos / audio.
  • AI or non-AI assisted inpainted images.
  • Low-tech edits, such as splicing, copy-move and insertion of text in images / videos.
  • Others to be proposed by the company.
Key Metrics
  • True Positive Rate.
  • True Negative Rate.
  • Time taken to process and analyse the media.
Your Technology Solution Should Demonstrate
  • Functionalities such as attributing location of manipulations (e.g. heatmaps, timestamp), manipulation techniques (e.g. lipsync), explain conclusions (e.g. mismatched lip movement), and provide source discovery of media origin, etc.
  • Its technical readiness for deployment and requirements to integrate with our evaluation platform.
  • How it keeps its detection capabilities up‑to‑date.
  • Where applicable, a video demonstration of your solution.
What A Trial Looks Like
  • We seek a one-month trial via SaaS (Software as a Service), secure API (Application Programming Interface), or on-premise with shortlisted companies for our internal evaluation at no cost to us.
  • If successful, we seek to subscribe to your solution for one-year, including training and documentation.
 
[Note: Shortlisted companies may be required to sign a non-disclosure agreement, as we may provide datasets during the one-month trial to evaluate your solution's capability.]
What We Are Not Looking For
  • Solutions requiring significant manual operator review.
  • Solutions that only work on limited media types (e.g. passport photos).
Follow-on Implementation Cost
  • Long-term pricing model.
  • If applicable, cost for an on-prem solution.
 
This challenge is launched in partnership with DSTA (Defence Science and Technology Agency), GovTech Singapore, HTX (Home Team Science & Technology Agency) and CSA (Cyber Security Agency of Singapore).