GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

The proposals should assess the current industrial solutions and identify the possible needs for adapting existing products to the military operational requirements. The proposed solution should be applicable to military deployable camps (support and mobility) without any drop of operational performances. Moreover, energy transition is an operational asset making it possible to be more efficient, aiming at a better autonomy and strengthening the resilience of military forces. It could also bring tactical benefits like the reduction of noise, thermal and electromagnetic signature. The proposal must address:

• Benchmarking of the current industrial existing solutions and identifying the possible needs and constraints for adapting civilian products to the military operational conditions.
• Benchmarking of the past and ongoing defence studies, research, and multinational military working groups’ results, which represents a substantial work base.
• Identification of the needs of the European Armies especially in an interoperable context for all types of energies including electrical network.
• Study and implementation of technological solutions in order to allow the forces to reduce fossil fuel dependency in military deployable camps by integrating the logistics and financial aspect, and benefits from hydrogen fuel cells.
• Study of the capacity to produce, transport, store, distribute and use hydrogen or hydrogen based synthetic fuels in military context and to power supply in fields operations.
• Study on risk assessment (vulnerability, detections of such systems, how easy are to be replaced, possible collateral damage in case of destruction).
•  Study Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the camp’s energy management system that hinder cyberattacks.

The outputs could be used to set-up in a second stage a full-scale operational demonstrator of a deployable camp fulfilling interoperability between inter-allied armies and NATO, with a modular and easily deployable energy system and adaptable energy mix.

Targeted activities: Studies, not excluding upstream and downstream activities.