Underwater manned-unmanned teaming and swarms
Summary
The European Defence Fund (EDF) is the Commission’s initiative to support collaborative defence research and development, and to foster an innovative and competitive defence industrial base.
Programme Name
Programme Description
The European Defence Fund (EDF) is the Commission’s initiative to support collaborative defence research and development, and to foster an innovative and competitive defence industrial base.
Call
Detailed Call Description
The aim is to develop swarming technologies up to at least TRL 4 and validated in seawater. The expected result of the research activities performed with the support of this call is a better mission performance result than the one obtained by an individual UxV or platform alone. This should take into account data sources of opportunity. The main challenges or factors to be solved to enable this are the following:
- The SoS shares a common objective for all the individual components
- The SoS can be composed of systems, vehicles, and platforms of different nature and capacities
- The architecture and functions need to be derived and controlled by the task or mission aim that has been defined.
- The SoS architecture and protocols enables it to utilise resources outside the cooperative system
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
100%
Programme Category
EU Competitive ProgrammesTotal Budget
€25 000 000Thematic Categories
- Information Technology
- Justice - Security
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Central Government
- Large Enterprises
- Legal Entities
- Local Authorities
- Local Authority clusters
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- Semi-governmental organisations
- Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
- State-owned Enterprises
Call Opening Date
21/06/2022Call Closing Date
24/11/2022National Contact Point(s)
Ministry of Defense
172-174 Strovolos Avenue, 2048 Strovolos, Nicosia,
website: https://mod.gov.cy/
Telephone: 22 807500
Email: defence@mod.gov.cy
Department of Research and Innovation
Phones: 22 807755, 22 807754
Email: research.innovation@mod.gov.cy
EU Contact Point
European Directorate-General for Defence Industry and Space (DEFIS)
https://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/defence-industry-and-space_en