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Thales to lead European AI-driven cyberdefence project for aircraft systems

Thales, the French defence technology company, has been selected to lead the Artificial Intelligence Deployable Agent (AIDA) project, funded by the European Defence Fund (EDF).

Record interest in European Defence Fund as 298 proposals compete for EUR 1.1 billion in funding

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The European Commission has announced a record-breaking 298 proposals for the 2024 European Defence Fund (EDF) funding round.

Vyoma, a Germany-based company providing Space Domain Awareness capabilities, has been awarded two contracts by the European Defence Fund (EDF) programme of the European Commission. Specifically, the EMISSARY and STAALION projects seek to augment European intelligence sovereignty and enhance threat response capabilities. These contracts represent a significant milestone in Vyoma's mission to empower the defence sector with independent space domain awareness capabilities, thereby contributing to European geostrategic autonomy and the protection of critical infrastructure security in the continent.

Vyoma awarded two European Defence Fund contracts to enhance space security

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Vyoma has been awarded two contracts by the European Defence Fund (EDF) programme of the European Commission.

In the frame of the European Defence FUND (EDF), Naval Group Belgium, a 100% subsidiary of Naval Group, will lead the E=MCM project for a period of three years. Following the work carried out as part of the MIRICLE project*, which was concluded successfully at the end of 2023, 21 European partners will work together in the consortium to reach a European sovereign capacity in the future mine warfare.

Naval Group Belgium to lead the European Extended Mine Countermeasures (E=MCM) project

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E=MCM’s objective is to deliver new MCM capabilities prototypes ready for industrialization in the European Union.

Indra consolidates its position as a company that is co-leading the development of the next generation of European defence technologies, demonstrating its ability to articulate large consortia working together on cutting-edge systems. The company was recently selected under the third call of the European Defence Fund to promote ten new R+D projects that will mobilize more than 500 million euros, representing more than half of the total budget of this edition.

European Defence Fund: Indra to lead two projects

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Indra consolidates its position as a company that is co-leading the development of the next generation of European defence technologies.

For the first time ever, Lockheed Martin and Navantia Sistemas successfully formed a common operational picture information between the new International Aegis Fire Control Loop (IAFCL) and SCOMBA (Sistema de Combate de los Buques de la Armada).

Navantia participates in six EDF 2023 projects valued at EUR 520 million

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Six research and development projects in which Navantia has a role will be funded by the 2023 European Defence Fund (EDF) call, according to the selection announced by the European Commission.

The European Commission has published the funding decisions of the 2023 research and development projects under the European Defence Fund (EDF). For the first time, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland was given the responsibility of coordinating two of the projects. VTT is also involved as a partner in the three other projects. The overall programme has received almost EUR 68 million in funding from the EU.

European Defence Fund: VTT to lead two research and development projects

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The European Defence Fund projects support the EU’s leading expertise in defence technology development in the areas of cyber security, land, air and sea warfare, space technologies and chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear defence. VTT brings its expertise to the projects, especially in the field of digital technologies. “Digital technologies are evolving rapidly and …

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European Defence Fund: over €1 billion for 54 ambitious defence industrial projects

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The selected projects will support technological excellence across a wide range of defence capabilities in critical areas, including cyber defence, ground, air and naval combat.

The European Commission signed the Grant Agreement for the launch of the STORE (Shared daTabase for Optronics image Recognition and Evaluation) collaborative research project, coordinated by Thales and funded by the EDF (European Defence Fund). Bringing together a consortium of 20 partners (manufacturers, SMEs and academics) from 8 EU Member States and Norway, this project aims to build a shared image database secured by most advanced technology and to develop and evaluate artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms dedicated to data analysis of ground platform imaging systems. This project will contribute to the automatic management and tactical analysis of information in land combat situations, thanks to technological innovation in deep learning of optronic data.

AI-assisted optronics: an unprecedented European project to increase combat perception capabilities

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The European Commission signed the Grant Agreement for the launch of the STORE collaborative research project, coordinated by Thales and funded by the European Defence Fund.

As part of the European Union’s initiative to support collaborative defence research and development (R&D) to address emerging and future challenges and threats, Airbus will coordinate four defence R&D projects following the successful signature of the grant agreement between the European Commission and the consortia. These projects will receive EU funding of EUR 40.7 million from the European Defense Fund (EDF) and additional Member States’ co-financing.

Airbus coordinates four European Defence Fund R&D projects

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Airbus will coordinate four defence R&D projects following the successful signature of the grant agreement between the European Commission and the consortia.

On January 24, the Federated Advanced Cyber physical Test range (FACT) project consortium held its kick-off meeting in Oslo, hosted by Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace (Project Coordinator).

5G specialist LMT takes part in EU-funded FACT project

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FACT aims to provide an unprecedented new European capability to test and verify the cyber vulnerability of equipment. The project will pave the way for the EU’s autonomy and ability to create and integrate a federated cyber-physical test bed. Participants included representatives of 19 participating entities from 15 Member States and Associated …

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Multinational technology company GMV has kicked off the CONVOY (ClOud iNtelligent explosiVe detectiOn sYstem) project, an initiative selected for funding by the European Union with an estimated budget of €4,986,989.50. CONVOY is one of the projects selected by the European Defence Fund (EDF) as part of the EDF 2022 call for proposals within the first Technological Challenge launched by the European Commission in the field of detection of improvised explosive devices.

European Defence Fund: GMV leads the CONVOY project

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Multinational technology company GMV has kicked off the CONVOY (ClOud iNtelligent explosiVe detectiOn sYstem) project, an initiative selected for funding by the European Union.