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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.
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Summary
The specific objective is:
- To design, prototype and test a digital platform as an EU-based infrastructure framework (i.e., digital platform) for the integration and common operation of the SOTS.
- To launch the initial design of a multidomain naval combat cloud which could cover the gap between the cloud at naval platform level and the global and joint inter-services combat cloud.
Detailed Call Description
The multidomain naval combat cloud should combine and federate services provided by or distributed in different naval units, to allow for an effective and efficient collaboration between the different platforms and assets involved in a naval combat scenario, including surface, sub-surface, and air assets. The possibility to work in cooperation should increase and extend the operational capabilities of the platforms.
The proposal should consider the use of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) as a key enabler of a common and overarching engineering environment tool. Such a design approach should provide a realistic testing environment for the continuous integration of evolving digital technologies (e.g., processing, data storage capacities, fog-/edge-computing, Internet of Things (IoT) to ensure the openness and scalability of the digital architecture.
The proposal should specifically address cybersecurity aspects. It should consider new trends in cybersecurity such as the Data Centric/Dynamic Zero-Trust Security, or any other evolution in cyber warfare that may be applicable during the execution.
This call topic contributes to the STEP objectives, as defined in STEP Regulation, in the target investment area of deep and digital technologies.
This topic aims to:
- Define the set of common services required to support to the SOTS.
- Design in detail the ship digital architecture to provide the main services (e.g., operational environment, connectivity, data and models management) for the functional integration of SOTS.
- Identify the required standards (including hardening standards) so the SOTS can be integrated seamlessly.
- Build a prototype for functional integration of SOTS and functional performance of a EU based naval combat cloud.
- Test that prototype, including various systems of the ship as representatives use cases to utilise the infrastructure as the supporting operational environment.
- Initiate the design of an EU based multidomain naval combat cloud.
Call Total Budget
Thematic Categories
- Information Technology
- Justice - Security
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
- Shipping - Marine Transports
Eligibility for Participation
- Legal Entities
- Other Beneficiaries
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- State-owned Enterprises
Eligibility For Participation Notes
In order to be eligible, all applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must cumulatively:
- be legal entities (public or private bodies)
- be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)
- non-EU countries:
- listed EEA countries (‘EDF associated countries’; list of participating countries)
- have their executive management structure established in eligible countries
- not be subject to control by a non-associated third country or non-associated third-country entity (unless they can provide guarantees – see Annex 2 –approved by the Member State or EDF associated country where they are established).
Consortium composition – For all topics under this call, proposals must be submitted by: minimum 3 independent applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities) from 3 different eligible countries.
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National Contact Point(s)
Ministry of Defense
Address: 172-174 Strovolos Avenue, 2048 Strovolos, Nicosia
Telephone: 22 807500
Email: defence@mod.gov.cy
Website: https://mod.gov.cy/
Department of Research and Innovation
Telephones: 22 807755, 22 807754
Email: research.innovation@mod.gov.cy
EU Contact Point
For help related to this call, please contact: DEFIS-EDF-PROPOSALS@ec.europa.eu