The Commission announced the adoption of the second annual work programme of the European Defence Fund (EDF) in May 2022 and opened the calls in June 2022. The EDF 2022 work programme allocated up to a total of €924 million in funding.
The 2022 EDF work programme addresses in total 33 topics structured along eight calls for proposals to kick-start a number of large emblematic projects. It targets relevant defence technologies and capabilities in line with the EU capability priorities commonly agreed by Member States and further elaborated in the Strategic Compass. High-end defence capabilities and enabling technologies are also addressed through different categories of actions. These include inter alia the development of a medium-size tactical cargo aircraft contributing to military mobility, strengthening cyber situational awareness and operations’ capabilities, space-based missile early warning, airborne electronic warfare, collaborative combat for land forces, technologies and components for underwater applications, including underwater manned-unmanned teaming and swarms.
