Threats posed by new and evolving cyber and hybrid tools (e.g., disinformation, deep fakes) are fully part of Cyber and Information Warfare21. These threats need to be addressed with appropriate holistic resilience measures including detection and
appropriate countermeasures. Cyber and Information Warfare system performance, in terms of total defence effectiveness and cooperation in cyber defence as referred in the EU Capability Development Plan Priorities, could be improved.

Proposals are expected to address development of a European coherent library of software configurable components to easily integrate in Cyber and Information Warfare systems. This requires capabilities in detection, analysis, fusion and threat
targeting to support activities of Cyber and Operational Centres for operational use cases (e.g., attacks against deployed forces in operations; attacks aiming to destabilize one and/or several European countries). Various relevant technologies
processing multi-sources data for Cyber and Information Warfare operations needs to be addressed. In addition, enabling items such as standardization, data exchanges rules, multi-source fusion applications, AI-based analytics, methods & tools for
integration, qualification in defence systems should be covered. The disinformation phenomenon includes also cultural and social aspects (so called “social science & humanity”) that may be studied by multidisciplinary teams to provide a holistic
perspective.

The outcome is expected to become both a reference repository of AI-based configurable applications and an experimental platform for the various AI techniques addressing the specificities of Cyber and Information Warfare (for example disinformation tracking applications).