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
This topic has opened under the call ”Fleet upgrade and close combat” (EDF-2021-GROUND-D).
The availability of mobile precision systems able to provide the necessary high degree of accuracy and efficiency, avoiding widespread collateral damage, and reducing exposure of friendly forces is a priority for Member States’ armed forces. In the context of this topic some requirements are becoming increasingly important, e.g. to provide the land and naval combat units with the ability to defeat at medium and long ranges, and with a very high degree of accuracy and reliability. In order to meet these requirements, research activities on a Beyond Line Of Sight (BLOS) collaborative close combat architecture are required.
Detailed Call Description
Development of a BLOS collaborative close combat architecture based on BLOS native missile systems (with full Lock-On After Launch (LOAL) and Man-In-The-Loop (MITL) capabilities through a seeker back-image):
- Multi-domains (land/air/sea);
- Multi-platforms integration (air/land/naval, manned/unmanned);
- Multi-sensors (alert, detection, target designation, engagement);
- Explore and define system architecture;
- Study and develop an enhanced BLOS concept according to defined system architecture;
- Define, study and develop interfaces for supporting systems, hardware and applications serving to enhance BLOS-capability;
- Extended range;
- Cooperative engagement;
- Enhanced performances and functional capability;
- Increased robustness to aggressions (cyber, jamming);
- Innovative technologies insertion;
- Mission planning and decision-making supported by AI;
- Design and develop concept for training and evaluation of BLOS capability involving interoperability among Member States.
Targeted activities: Studies, design, system prototyping and testing, not excluding upstream or downstream activities.
The budget earmarked on 2021 appropriations for this action will be completed by an amount of €109000000 from 2022 appropriations. This 2022 complementary budget is subject to the adoption of a separate financing decision.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
100%
Thematic Categories
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Central Government
- Large Enterprises
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
- State-owned Enterprises
Eligibility For Participation Notes
The action shall be carried out by legal entities cooperating within a consortium of at least three eligible legal entities which are established in at least three different Member States or associated countries. At least three of those eligible legal entities established in at least two different Member States or associated countries shall not, during the entire period in which the action is carried out, be controlled, directly or indirectly, by the same legal entity and shall not control each other.
The admissibility and eligibility conditions are described under Article 9 and Article 10(4) of the EDF regulation.
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
(Publish Date: 30/09/2021-for internal use only)
EU Contact Point
European Directorate-General for Defence Industry and Space (DEFIS)
https://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/defence-industry-and-space_en