Programme Category
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.
Identifier Code
Call
Summary
Timely and robust detection and monitoring of moving underwater threats (such as submarines, swimmer delivery vehicles (SDV), combat divers, underwater unmanned vehicles (UUV)) in open sea and coastal waters is critical for maintaining sea control, for ensuring freedom to operate own forces, for A2AD operations, for harbour protection, for force protection, and for protection of critical national infrastructure.
Detailed Call Description
Future capabilities need to be effective, mobile, adaptive, scalable, and flexible to counter threats from the underwater domain, leading to new technical and conceptual solutions to be developed. As traditional naval ships will become an increasingly
scarce and expensive resource and will not be sufficient to provide the necessary geographical coverage and flexibility needed for the future, research is required on modular unmanned systems for underwater warfare with prerequisite principles of
unmanned air, surface and underwater (UxV) standards.
Underwater communication, detection, and monitoring of moving targets are common denominators for traditional warfare areas such as Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW), underwater surveillance, harbour protection, and seabed warfare. Mission specific sensor solutions and tactical approaches differ in these, despite having common denominators. Timely detection of moving underwater threats at sufficient range is identified as one of the biggest challenges. Providing technical solutions for
underwater target detection, allowing to prepare appropriate reaction to a subsurface threat, will therefore impact the whole range of warfare areas mentioned above. The aim is to develop technological novelties at least up to TRL 5.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
100%
Thematic 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
Call Closing Date
National 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