GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

The proposals must address some of the following elements:

• Identification of the specifications for warships’ digital architecture such as European navy needs and specific constraints (operational, environmental, energy-related, etc.);
• Definition of a ship digital architecture and of smart processes in order to optimise sharing, pushing, pulling, selection, collect, enrichment, exploitation of data, whether for optimising the functioning of systems or for constituting data bases of knowledge or data bases for machine learning or both;
• Development of a limited set of interface and implementation standards in order to ensure interoperability and the integration of future data-based solutions and services in various ships.
• A modelling and simulation environment based on Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) principles;
• The combination of IoT technologies, sensors, data lake infrastructures to improve data collection and management, and AI based analysis capabilities to be able to provide services as to assess a platform’s health status and develop predictive and corrective maintenance strategies;
• The capability to introduce novel technology or functionality on an existing design and demonstrate impact on Requirements, Functional, Logical and physical domains;
• The definition of the best application of digital twinning aiming both at product development and lifecycle management.

Targeted activities

• studies, such as feasibility studies to explore the feasibility of new or improved technologies, products, processes, services and solutions;
• the design of a defence product, tangible or intangible component or technology as well as the definition of the technical specifications on which such design has been developed which may include partial tests for risk reduction in an industrial or representative environment.

(see page 21of the work programme)