GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

The proposals must cover several key aspects and show how they will handle them:

• The specificity of requirements (operational/technical/environment/etc.) at strategic, operational and tactical levels and their impact on the architecture and solutions;
• The provision of secure and resilient services, multiple levels of security, hardware and software certification, cyber protection, data integrity solutions, etc.;
• The complementarity and synergies, avoiding duplication but bridging existing/upcoming single-domain cloud-based solutions, creating synergies between other already or soon-to-be launched cloud-based important initiatives and enhancing these efforts by enabling an advanced use of services and information across domains;
• The digital continuity aspect, i.e. a virtual environment enabling collaborative operations services across all domains and levels (strategical, operational and tactical);
• The need for an open architecture, designed in a modular way in order to accommodate specific requirements from tactical level to the different headquarter levels;
• The need to analyse and compare possible approaches to share data and services within military organisations, depending on the operation levels;
• The promotion of European standards regarding interoperability and information sharing, and the compatibility with other existing interface military standards such as NATO Federated Mission Networking (FMN);
• The synergies with European civilian cloud technologies where applicable;
• The synergies with the existing cyber ranges in the EU Member States.

(further details page 17 of the annual work programme)