Grants & Funding

Expected Impact: The results of the activities should contribute to support common procurement, leading to strengthening the cooperation among Member States and associated countries, as well as to greater interoperability. Furthermore, they should contribute to the building up of strategic stockpile of ammunition, missiles, including their components, or to the increase of existing ones, as well as to the development of low-cost unmanned systems for guided strikes adapted to modern warfare scenarios. Objective: This topic aims at actions supporting the common procurement of ammunition…

Expected Impact: The results of the activities should contribute to support common procurement, leading to strengthening the cooperation among Member States and associated countries, as well as to greater interoperability. Furthermore, they should contribute to the replenishment of depleted stockpiles of counter-drone systems, to the increase of existing stockpiles or to establishment of defence industrial readiness pool, as well as to the development and reinforcement of counter-drone solutions as drones are being increasingly perceived as a pressing threat. Objective: This topic aims at…

Scope: There is a need for a new multirole light aircraft that can bridge the gap between today’s battlefield and modern technology, as most of the fleet in this segment across the EU is ageing. The future multirole light aircraft (FMLA) concept must not duplicate or create fragmentation of existing systems of turboprop and tactical military transport aircraft and associated electronic systems. By exploiting the existing platforms, technologies and innovations in Europe, this research topic can reduce the risks associated with the development of FMLA capabilities for air-to-ground operations.…

Scope: The automatic analysis of tactical situations using fleets of robots, drones and AI is an important research topic that lacks standardised benchmarks and objective evaluation campaigns. This call topic aims to set up a testing environment and organise a technological challenge in which research teams will participate, supported by another topic (EDF-2024-LS-RA-CHALLENGE-DIGIT-AISAP-STEP) and possibly other sources of funding. The testing environment should enable objective comparisons between different approaches. Data should be collected during field tests, annotated and shared to…

Scope: Assisting soldiers with robots and drones that can provide accurate tactical situational awareness by using AI becomes essential for soldier protection. This call topic aims to follow on and complement previous activities in the field of hidden threat detection and explore solutions involving various combinations of intelligent robots, drones and sensing technologies for advanced detection and recognition of threats, in view of their avoidance or neutralisation. These solutions should be tested under realistic scenarios in a comparable and objective manner to reach up to Technical…

Expected Impact: The outcome should contribute to: Shared consolidated EU perspective for Air collaborative warfare. Common EU standards for collaborative air combat for EU Member States and EDF Associated Countries that are interoperable with NATO standards. Participate to structure and develop an EU ecosystem to support AI technology sovereignty for military usages. Incremental increase of the interoperability of warfare systems so that the EU Member States’ and EDF Associated Countries’ armed forces would be able to operate collectively and efficiently. Better use of resources (single and…

Expected Impact: The outcome should contribute to: Facilitate the introduction of new aerial propulsion and energy integrated systems technologies through a reduction of their evaluation time and cost. Develop EU autonomous industrial sector and enhance cross boarder collaboration (from large industrial group to SME). Contribute to EU technological sovereignty and strategic autonomy. Contribute to improve EU air power and to guarantee EU aerial superiority. Objective: The objective of this call topic is to develop and mature a new suite of advanced technologies for propulsion, power and…

Expected Impact: The outcome should contribute to: Improve engagement capabilities by extending the range and precision of land-based precision strike capabilities, delivered in a massive way. Gain technological superiority for deploying affordable Loitering Munitions and small UCAS, for defeating conventional adversary targets. Foster the integration of Ukrainian war lessons learned into EU defence industry products. Enhance EDTIB capabilities to mass produce effective Loitering Munitions and small UCAS. Reduce non-EU dependencies in the field of Loitering Munitions and small UCAS. CDP…