GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

The proposals should address challenges in all the following areas:

• Full-spectrum cyber situational awareness:
  • facilitating human decision-makers understanding of the cyberspace spectrum as a whole, including physical (hardware, geographical, Electromagnetic Spectrum, etc.), logical (software, networks, etc.) and cyber persona (Human-Machine Interfacing, cognitive, psychological, social) assets, conditionings, impacts and effects.
• Decision, command, and control support:
  • identification and assessment of creative and flexible options (CO’s Areas of Operation (CoAs), countermeasures, etc.) and opportunities to accomplish missions in or through cyberspace. The proposals should bring CySA to assist decision-making under full-spectrum operational friction, including uncertainty when faced with a thinking and adaptive enemy, which may operate on conventional but also hybrid measures. CySA also facilitates understanding the effect and stress of COs on human actors;
  • associating full-spectrum cyber situations and opportunities with objectives, strategies and initiatives of actors operating within the CoAs (considering features such as interest, responsibility, influence, etc.). Among others, this includes assessing the status of mission essential assets, recognition of players in the operational environment, or developing a joint Situational Awareness (SA). As part of the characterisation of the mission, all instruments of power should be taken into account (approaches such as PMESII or PESTLE). Mission Engineering (ME) may be considered with a view to help determining and analysing the composition and status of decisive cyber conditions that support or impact own missions, while assisting the assessment of opportunities on neutral/adversarial missions, centres of gravity and CoAs;
  • capability orchestration enabling deployability within joint forces, and adapted to decision-makers at all war levels. This includes adapting to collaborative environments like joint and/or combined operations at the national, EU and NATO levels. Capability to dynamically adapt to the operational context in agreement with different human intervention profiles.
• Interoperability:
  • the results should enable interoperability with EU-level and NATO-level C2 initiatives.