GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

Wideband and reliable communication for operational interoperability, mobility and security that is robust against detection, acquisition and jamming are key capabilities for defence operations and electronic warfare, including far from the battlefield.

The proposals must lead to the identification and assessment of operational use cases where 5G will bring benefits, analyse the merits, the implementation guidelines, including eventual modifications, and prototype selected use cases, and the area of hardening, if necessary, will be identified and the militarisation/customization tasks will be further defined and assessed.

The objective is to help optimising the 5G solutions for the intended military user taking care of the best combination of operational constraints and available 5G computing power. The proposal must provide tested solutions covering all aspects from devices, infrastructure, security and orchestration of the overall system providing an optimized solution, in order to best integrate 5G solutions with other military network types that might be present in the use cases.

Potential military 5G use cases should possibly consider to:

• Provide secure and robust command, control and communication providing information relevant at C2 (Command and Control) level for ISR and, in the future, for cyber situational awareness.
• Remotely control unmanned vehicles and robots.
• Integrate 5G network enabling augmented/virtual reality for mission planning, training and operational use.
• Integrate 5G network enabling smart warehouses, smart field health care and supply/logistic solutions.

Targeted activities: Studies, design, prototyping and testing, not excluding upstream and downstream activities.