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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
Kinetic and digital military operations increasingly rely on computers and networked communications for information gathering, intelligence, coordination and weapon control. At the same time as the dependencies on digital technologies rapidly grows, so does the potential threats and vulnerabilities. The global community, military, and battlefield may be affected by increasing threats. Furthermore, the Internet of Things (IoT) has become widely integrated into a variety of sectors and industries, offering “readymade” solutions for surveillance, monitoring, healthcare, and military platforms. Examples for IoT devices are drones, software defined radios, sensors (cameras, humidity, temperature), TV devices, cars/vehicles). Many IoT solutions are designed primarily for functionality, without being properly secured. As a result, attacks on IoT environments have gained momentum due to the increased attack surface. Therefore, the need for cybersecurity services, including ensuring an appropriate level of control and prevention (e.g., over data, communications, systems), must be addressed.
Detailed Call Description
Currently, many cybersecurity solutions are being used or under development or research. However, cyber threats continue to evolve affecting the systems and services on which today’s community relies.
A test environment is imperative to determine how to enhance the security of a system, product, or component, through the generation of effective tests for analysing the system in question, its threat response capability, resulting in forensic dissemination, procedures, and proposals of improved architectures.
Most legacy specialized military systems are not directly vulnerable to cyber-attacks and malware employed in the open Internet, yet a growing use of ICT/IoT Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) components and increasing connectivity may increment the likelihood of targeted attacks using the methods, if not the tools, used in cyber-attacks on the open Internet.
The increasing use of the cyber domain will require defence forces to operate in unexpected scenarios and consequently systems to function outside the environments they were designed for.
It is thus essential to understand the extent of the threat, develop infrastructure to continuously assess security against an evolving threat landscape, build resilience by guaranteeing mission assurance even with a partial compromise also using trustworthy hardware, software applications, communication protocols and trustworthy operating system.
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Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
For the funding rate please visit page 8 of the call document.
Thematic Categories
- Information Technology
- Justice - Security
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Associations
- Central Government
- Large Enterprises
- Legal Entities
- Local Authorities
- Local Authority clusters
- NGOs
- Non Profit Organisations
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- Semi-governmental organisations
- Services Providers
- Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
- State-owned Enterprises
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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