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03 Feb 23. Babcock, the international defence company, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with SH Defence to explore the potential of the Danish equipment provider’s Cube™ system for its Arrowhead 140 (AH140) General Purpose Frigate.
Following the signing, Babcock and SH Defence will work together to identify opportunities to install the modular system that can make mission preparation faster and safer by hosting and moving equipment in shipping containers on board vessels.
The Cube™ can be installed on board vessels with side ‘mission bays’, which provide portside access to storage space on board the ship.
Signing of the MOU took place at Babcock’s Rosyth facility with Neil Young, Babcock’s Engineering & Technology Director and Rene Bertelsen, CEO of SH Defence.
The Cube™ can adapt to work on air, surface or subsurface vessels and will quickly handle and move specialised shipping containers, carrying mission-specific equipment, onto the vessel as the crew prepare to get underway.
Engineering & Technology Director for Babcock, Neil Young said:
“I’m delighted we have signed the Memorandum of Understanding with SH Defence. The Cube™ modular payload system is a very exciting product with lots of obvious benefits to our customers.
“Adding modularisation of mission capability to the inherent adaptability of the Arrowhead 140 frigates will support the aspirations of many international navies.
“With clever locking and skidding systems payload modules can be swapped far more quickly than before, while maintaining the highest levels of safety. I’m looking forward to the opportunities and capabilities the Cube™ will bring to our projects.”
02 Feb 23. CACI Demonstrates EW and ISR Technologies at U.S. Army’s Project Convergence Technology Gateway 2022.
Solutions featured on unmanned vehicles, showcasing advanced EW, cyber, and ISR capabilities in a contested environment.
CACI International Inc (NYSE: CACI) announced today it successfully demonstrated its Spectral Sieve and Pit Viper low-size, weight, and power (SWaP) intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) and electronic warfare (EW) technologies for small to medium unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) at the U.S. Army’s Project Convergence Technology Gateway. CACI delivered real-time situational awareness and targeting information for commanders through direction-finding, geolocation, and active cyber effects.
“CACI continues to invest ahead of need to develop and deploy technology that supports our customers’ critical missions,” said John Mengucci, CACI President and Chief Executive Officer. “These innovative ISR and EW technologies allow commanders at the tactical edge to rapidly build better situational awareness in congested and contested operational environments.”
The Army’s event was a large-scale modernization, experimentation, and demonstration campaign held at several U.S. military installations between September and November. It featured a series of joint, multi-domain engagements aimed to improve battlefield situational awareness, to better connect sensors with shooters and to advance the service’s vision of joint all-domain command and control (JADC2). CACI’s low SWaP ISR and EW innovations brought new capability and enabled operations previously only available via larger aircraft.
The CACI team showcased advanced unmanned teaming concepts that used EW, cyber operations, and ISR capabilities in a challenging GPS-contested environment. Spectral Sieve and Pit Viper airborne payloads targeted RF signals and delivered active EW effects during the missions. Using a mesh radio network and without access to GPS, Spectral Sieve and Pit Viper were successfully cross cued to another electro optical/infrared (EO/IR) payload on a second UAS to deliver vital battlefield information more quickly to commanders seeking to understand a congested battlefield.
(Source: BUSINESS WIRE)
02 Feb 23. Defense Innovation Board Winter Meeting Readout.
The Defense Innovation Board (DIB) closed out its winter board meeting in Washington, DC, on Feb. 1, 2023. Over the course of two days, the Defense Innovation Board received briefs from Department leaders on defense innovation efforts and opportunities for the Department to build strategic and enduring advantages for the warfighter. The Defense Innovation Board met with Under Secretary (Acquisition & Sustainment) William LaPlante, Under Secretary (Research & Engineering) Heidi Shyu, and Under Secretary (Comptroller) Mike McCord, and heard from the Defense Innovation Unit and service innovation organizations like AFWERX, NavalX, and Army Futures Command Army Application Lab, to better understand the defense innovation ecosystem and initiatives.
The DIB also held a public session to provide the board Chair – Michael R. Bloomberg – updates on the task force studies. Ryan Swann, representing the National Defense Science & Technology (S&T) Strategy Review Task Force, provided an update on task force efforts and initial observations on the importance of an S&T strategy for DoD to drive innovation. The DIB Chair and members also received an update from the Strategic Investment Capital Task Force Chair, Dr. Will Roper, who previewed study elements and announced an opportunity for the private sector to share their thoughts on how to improve the relationship between the commercial sector and DoD.
In addition to the study task force updates, the Defense Innovation Board received briefs from Dr. Jason Rathje, Director of the Office of Strategic Capital (OSC), on the Secretary’s vision for attracting private capital to boost the nation’s security and prosperity. The board also heard from Lt. Gen. Clinton S. Hinote, U.S. Air Force, on ways to incentivize a culture of innovation in the DoD and the military services. Board members asked questions and provided insights on ways DoD could think about increasing the partnership with the private sector and leveraging talent within and across the university and commercial sectors. Bloomberg encouraged private sector participation in the Strategic Investment Capital study to inform the DIB’s recommendations to Sec. Austin and reiterated the importance of an innovation ecosystem at home and abroad that underpins U.S. national security and economic security. Both Bloomberg and Hinote reflected on the lessons learned from Ukraine especially in regard to the use of technology and the urgency for more innovation in DoD.
Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks met briefly with the DIB Chair and members to thank them for their service, noting she and Sec. Austin were looking forward to the DIB’s insights and recommendations at a future board meeting.
The DIB provides the Secretary of Defense, Deputy Secretary of Defense, and other senior leaders with independent advice and recommendations on innovative means to address future challenges and ways to leverage strengths across the public and private sector to advance national security and economic security.
Additional information about the DIB and the Strategic Investment Capital Task Force interview sessions can be found on its website: Caution-https://innovation.defense.gov(Source: US DoD)
01 Feb 23. Defense Innovation Board launches survey to boost private partnerships. The Pentagon’s innovation advisory board wants feedback from businesses and investment firms about how can better partner with private companies to spur growth in critical technology areas.
The Board’s strategic investment capital task force released a survey Wednesday seeking input from a spectrum of companies about the challenges the non-traditional business sector faces in partnering with the U.S. Department of Defense.
“We really need to talk to people outside the department,” Will Roper, a member of the board and the chair of the task force, said during a Feb. 1 meeting. “It’s not just startups, which you would guess we would do. We really need to speak with investors. We also need to speak with defense companies that have been working with us for decades about how they view working with companies that have a different track record than just being part of the defense industrial base.”
The survey will inform a broader study, directed by Undersecretary of Defense Heidi Shyu, that considers how the department can better mobilize private capital investment toward technology areas that are critical to national security. These include areas like hypersonics and directed energy as well as semiconductors and biotechnology.
The study, which Shyu called for in a Dec. 15 memo, follows the Pentagon’s creation of the Office of Strategic Capital, or OSC, on Dec. 1. The office’s goal is to drive private sector investment in key technology areas to help the military services field new technology faster.
The Defense Department has struggled to transition technology from the commercial sector to military users. Organizations like the Defense Innovation Unit and the Air Force’s AFWERX help create partnerships between these companies and the Pentagon, but OSC’s focus is on directing seed funding to increase investment in deep technology areas steeped in science and engineering advances.
Jason Rathje, director of the new office, told the board during its meeting this week that many of his early conversations with investors have focused on describing that difference.
“There is a lot of work that organizations like AFWERX and DIU are doing to help transition commercial technology into the things that we buy,” he said. “But those conversations are inherently different than seeding and changing the economics in the deep technology community to get after some of these other areas in the economy – areas that are deep within our supply chain, but areas that we certainly need to have advantages in from a supply chain perspective.”
Rathje said his team hopes to release its first investment strategy this summer, which will evaluate liquidity opportunities within each of the Pentagon’s 14 critical technology areas.
“What this does is it really helps us to tip and cue these tools to invest in the technology sectors that most require this source of capital,” he said.
The office is also taking advantage of a recent partnership between DoD and the Small Business Administration to help fund and incubate high-need technologies. The effort, dubbed the Small Business Investment Company Critical Technologies Initiative, was announced Dec. 3 and will offer loan guarantees to new private investment funds. Rathje said OSC will start taking applications from companies in June. (Source: C4ISR & Networks)
02 Feb 23. The White House has expressed optimism that the US, UK and Australia will clear the main obstacle to their landmark security deal, allowing technology transfers that will enable Canberra to obtain nuclear-powered submarines. Jake Sullivan, US national security adviser, said there had been progress in easing some technology export restrictions that the US partners have long been concerned could slow, or even possibly derail, the so-called Aukus security pact. Asked by the Financial Times on Tuesday about the technology transfer constraints, Sullivan said he was “feeling very good about the pathway on Aukus”, the most confident statement from Washington on overcoming the regulatory barriers that have complicated the deal. Sullivan told a small group of reporters that Aukus had “challenged some of the historic assumptions about what the United States could or wouldn’t be prepared to do in a different era”. The groundbreaking Aukus pact was unveiled in 2021 as a trilateral alliance to counter Chinese military power through the delivery of nuclear-powered submarines and the development of technology ranging from quantum computing to hypersonic weapons. Australian deputy prime minister Richard Marles told the FT on Tuesday that the partners were “close to an announcement” following an 18-month planning phase to determine how and where to build the boats and what US technology and information would be required. (Source: FT.com)
31 Jan 23. Curtiss-Wright Selected to Deliver MOSA Networking and Safety Certifiable Processing and Graphics Solutions for Aircraft Upgrade Program. Rugged COTS processing and graphics display modules provided with AC 20-152A safety certification artifacts that support system certification up to DAL-A. Curtiss-Wright’s Defense Solutions division, a leading supplier of Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) solutions engineered for success, today announced that it was selected by a leading system integrator to provide open standards-based safety certifiable processing and graphics technology, as well as its switching technology for use in a military aircraft upgrade program. Under the contract, Curtiss-Wright will provide the customer with its award winning1 V3-1708 single board computer and V3-717 graphics display module. Both of these commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) rugged 3U OpenVPX™ form factor modules are provided with AC 20-152A Development Assurance for Airborne Electronic Hardware safety certification artifacts that support system certification up to DAL-A. Curtiss-Wright’s solution exceeds the MIL-HDBK-516C Airworthiness Certification Criteria of this program. Curtiss-Wright will also provide its VPX3-663 3U OpenVPX Ethernet switch module. The initial contract is valued at $2.6m. The lifetime value of the contract is estimated at $14.5m.
“We are proud to have been selected to provide our MOSA-based safety certifiable processing and graphics technology for use on this military aircraft upgrade program,” said Chris Wiltsey, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions. “With the changing operational needs for both new and upgraded platforms and systems, the combination of COTS and safety certifiable solutions for airborne platforms offered by Curtiss-Wright accelerates the time to market for new capabilities, while increasing affordability.”
01 Feb 23. US Space Force seeks battle-ready microchip prototypes. Engineers at the US Department of Defense (DoD) and US Space Force (USSF) are looking to develop a new generation of microchips that can withstand the harsh radiation exposure associated with deep-space operations, while also employing cutting-edge micro-electronics (ME) technologies from the military and commercial sectors.
The Advanced Next Generation Strategic Radiation-hardened Memory (ANGSTRM) programme, as designed, will ensure that critical space-based assets – such as military satellites, command-and-control systems for strategic missile systems, and anti-missile warning nodes and systems – will be equipped with “near-commercial state-of-the-art performance … while still meeting the radiation requirements for the space and strategic environments”, USSF programme officials wrote in a 23 January industry solicitation.
While the USSF is the lead organisation conducting the ANGSTRM programme, the effort is one of several testing, development, and prototype technology initiatives being contracted to the industry through the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) via its Space Technology Advanced Research-Fast-tracking Innovative Software and Hardware (STAR-FISH) programme. (Source: Janes)
01 Feb 23. QinetiQ’s DATUM team has delivered UK and European firsts for the live airborne exchange of control of an unmanned air system (UAS) between operators in separate crewed aircraft. The demonstration proved how effective teams comprising both humans and machines can be dynamically built and operated in real time, paving the way for their use by militaries in the future.
This is a significant step forward as operators in real-world scenarios will need to exchange control of available capabilities reliably and securely during missions. This will act as a force multiplier for UAS during operations. Enabling them to be employed at the point of greatest need by the most appropriate operator, maximising the achieved effect in rapidly evolving tactical situations.
Both the live demonstration and the parallel synthetic trial were conducted using QinetiQ’s autonomy and policy management software, ACCSIOM, managing the same multi-platform mission in the real world and the virtual. The data captured during the synthetic trial is now being analysed and compared with live trial data to investigate and inform requirements for Digital Test & Evaluation. This will strengthen how QinetiQ supports its customers as they prepare for military operations.
Dave Dixon, Lead Engineer, QinetiQ commented: “The delivery of this landmark airborne exchange of control is a major achievement for the DATUM team and has positive implications for the future development and application of Crewed-Uncrewed Teaming. Greater use of this capability will increase efficiency, reduce crewed workload and improve the operational effectiveness of missions.”
“We’re pleased to have accomplished this hugely successful demonstration and look forward to working together with our partners to ensure outcomes are put to operational use.”
DATUM was delivered with the support of the Royal Navy, who loaned 744 Naval Air Squadron aircrew into the demonstration. After a short training programme delivered by QinetiQ, the squadron was able to task the UAS systems with mission instructions, allowing for the successful exchange of control between the two helicopter crews in the demonstration. The crews used QinetiQ’s CAPTEAM application on COTS tablets coupled with COTS IP radios to provide a carry-on situational awareness and UAS tasking system.
DATUM is an internally funded project spanning multiple Integrated Delivery Teams (IDTs) in QinetiQ’s Air and Science & Technology businesses within the UK Defence Sector of QinetiQ. ACCSIOM is being developed under QinetiQ investment funding. The Q-Works delivery team was chosen to manage this project as an ‘independent’ agile delivery service.
01 Feb 23. New Danish joint venture behind tomorrow’s flexible naval vessels. CUBEDIN A/S is a joint venture between Systematic and Odense Maritime Technology (OMT) aimed at creating multi-purpose vessels (MPVs) for the global market: flexible, modular naval vessels that can be transformed from environmental protection craft to mine-sweepers in no time at all.
In future, it will be possible to configure ships in a matter of hours, and thus transform an inspection ship into a patrol vessel, or a mine-sweeper into an environmental protection craft. At least if you ask the newly established company CUBEDIN A/S, which is a joint venture between two Danish companies, Systematic A/S and Odense Maritime Technology (OMT).
Both companies have made their name on the global market, in Systematic’s case within software development while OMT specialises in ship design. These competencies have now been brought together in CUBEDIN A/S, and will help to create the naval vessels of the future in the form of modular and flexible ships.
OMT, whose roots stretch back to A.P. Moller – Maersk and Odense Shipyard, is delivering expertise within modern ship design, while the second half of the maritime partnership is the software company Systematic, which is behind IT solutions that are used worldwide within defence, health, the police and wind turbine operations.
The future is cuboid
Together, the two companies have created a concept for building a brand new type of modular, flexible naval vessel. In a nutshell, the ships are designed and built to accommodate different modules – the so-called ‘cubes’ – which are delivered by the Danish company SH Defence. The cubes are containers which can accommodate different loads, and which can quickly be loaded/unloaded depending on the ship’s forthcoming missions. The loads can come from a wide range of suppliers, just as long as they fit within the cube.
Danny Ingemann is the newly appointed CEO at CUBEDIN A/S. He is convinced that the future is cuboid, and that the modular designs point the way to tomorrow’s naval ships as well as vessels operated by the public authorities.
“Ships that are currently in service are not designed with flexibility in mind. They are usually created for a specific purpose and for a particular type of task. Using the CUBEDIN technology, shipbuilders can deliver modular vessels which, in the space of a few hours, can be adapted for different missions simply by replacing the modules. This is not just practical and flexible – it’s also far cheaper, because mission-specific ships are expensive to procure and maintain,” he says.
Global companies to make significant contributions
The modules for the ships can be supplied by many different companies, and the new joint venture has already caught the attention of the maritime industry. At the world naval defence exhibition Euronaval in Paris in October 2022, CUBEDIN A/S signed, for example, a partnership agreement with the French technology giant Thales which, like several other companies around the world, has expressed a desire to deliver content for the cubes on the ships.
“The functionality we can incorporate on board the ships in this way offers countless possibilities, and therefore we’re very open to collaborating with companies that can build and deliver such functionality. The goal is to have a ‘Cube store’, where customers can freely choose which functions they want their ships to have,” says Danny Ingemann.
As part of the new joint venture, OMT is delivering flexible ship design, while Systematic is responsible for developing and supplying the software which integrates the various modules that transform the vessel for the relevant mission.
According to Danny Ingemann, the CUBEDIN concept holds enormous potential on the global market, as it allows individual countries to decide for themselves where the ships are to be built, which functional containers they will have – and from whom they will buy them.
“It’s a ground-breaking concept, because it’s based on open ship design with standardised cubes and open communication standards. It’s an approach that gives access to a large global market which needs this type of ship and, not least, the different possibilities in having them built. We’re not in any doubt that this way of building naval vessels is the future,” he says.
Danny Ingemann expects the first ships to enter production in the next couple of years, and the first vessels to be launched in about four years’ time.
CUBEDIN A/S is a ground-breaking new initiative within ship design, modular technology and software. The company was established in 2022 as a joint venture between two enterprises. The first, Odense Marine Technology (OMT), designs container ships and frigates, and is an offshoot of A.P. Moller – Maersk. The second is Systematic A/S, which is behind some of the world’s leading software solutions for the defence, health and utility sectors. Together, they have developed a concept for the maritime industry which makes the process of ship design and shipbuilding faster and more cost-efficient, and which results in modern, adaptable and multi-purpose vessels. Read more: https://cubedin.com/
31 Jan 23. Defense Innovation Board Winter Board Meeting in Washington, DC. The Defense Innovation Board will host its second board meeting Tuesday, January 31st and Wednesday, February 1st, at the Pentagon in Washington, DC. Since the last Defense Innovation Board meeting, Secretary Austin and Undersecretary Shyu tasked the board with two studies to provide Department leaders insights and recommendations related to the National Defense Science and Technology (S&T) Strategy review and strategic investment capital. The Department also welcomes the board’s newest members, Mr. Charles Phillips.
The Secretary of Defense appointed the following members to each study at the recommendation of the board Sponsor, Under Secretary Shyu, and the Chair, Michael R. Bloomberg:
National Defense Science and Technology (S&T) Strategy Review Task Force:
Hon. Mac Thornberry, Chair
Dr. Gilda Barabino
Admiral (Ret.) Mike Mullen
Ryan Swann
Strategic Investment Capital (SIC) Task Force:
Hon. Dr. Will Roper, Chair
Hon. Sue Gordon
Reid Hoffman
Charles Phillips
The Department seeks the board’s advice and recommendations on these topics following Secretary Austin’s announcement of the Office of Strategic Capital and the anticipated release of the Department’s first-ever National Defense S&T Strategy, as mandated by Congress. During the Winter Board Meeting, the DIB task force members will provide an update on work to date and the board will receive briefs on innovation initiatives across the Department.
The Defense Innovation Board provides Department leaders independent advice and strategic insights on commercial sector approaches to innovation that will enable the Department to build enduring advantages in a technology-and-innovation-driven environment.
For more information on the Defense Innovation Board and the public meeting, please visit: https://innovation.defense.gov/.(Source: US DoD)
20 Jan 23. Pentagon must act now on quantum computing or be eclipsed by rivals. As quantum computers continue to advance and become more powerful, they present a significant threat to the Department of Defense’s cybersecurity assurance.
When former Pentagon’s Chief Data Officer, David Spirk, left his post in March 2022, he did so with a warning: “I don’t think that there are enough senior leaders getting their heads around the [cybersecurity] implications of quantum… I think that’s a new wave of computers that, when it arrives, is going to be a pretty shocking moment to industry and government alike.”
Quantum computers have the ability to process information much faster than classical computers, making them capable of cracking the secure encryption algorithms relied on to protect information today. This could allow adversaries to access sensitive military intelligence, disrupt communication networks, and even disable military systems.
In late 2021, the head of the NSA’s Cybersecurity Directorate signaled that developing next-generation cryptologic systems to secure weapon systems from foreign adversaries was a top priority. In a fact sheet published that year, the NSA stated that “the impact of adversarial use of a quantum computer could be devastating to National Security Systems.”
The battle for quantum supremacy is already under way, and is set to fundamentally change the defense sector as the technology edges towards maturation.
The quantum threat is closer than you think
Many experts, including Spirk, believe that military applications for quantum computing could be less than 10 years away.
Case in point: according to the Pentagon’s annual report on Chinese military power, China recently designed and fabricated a quantum computer capable of outperforming a classical high-performance computer for a specific problem.
This is also why DARPA announced the ‘Underexplored Systems for Utility-Scale Quantum Computing’ (US2QC) program to explore potentially overlooked methods by which quantum computers could achieve practical levels of utilization much faster than current predictions suggest.
The White House recently signed the Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act into law, signaling that it regards quantum as a serious issue. The act addresses the migration of executive agencies’ IT systems to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) – encryption which is secure from attacks by quantum computers because of the advanced mathematics underpinning it.
As major powers like China, under its Digital Silk Road initiative, continue to accelerate investment into advanced technologies like AI and quantum computing, the US risks being left behind if it does not pay equal attention to the quantum opportunity – and to the quantum threat.
The need for action is all the more urgent because of the looming threat of ‘harvest now, decrypt later’ attacks, by which adversaries can gather sensitive data today to decrypt as soon as they have their hands on a sufficiently powerful quantum computer.
Time is running out for the DoD
The defense sector needs to take the threat of quantum computers seriously because they have the potential to greatly impact national security.
Encryption is a crucial tool for protecting sensitive military information, and if quantum computers are able to break current encryption algorithms, this could compromise the security of classified documents, strategic plans, and even communication networks. This could potentially give adversaries an advantage in military conflicts and put US military personnel at risk.
In addition to the potential impact on national security, the defense sector also has a responsibility to protect the personal information of military personnel and civilians. Quantum computers could potentially be used to steal sensitive personal information, such as social security numbers, as well as medical and financial information.
As DoD moves from network-centric operations to data-centric operations, PQC implementation becomes even more relevant, regardless of whether the data comes from the cloud or any other source. DoD’s Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) and Joint Cloud Computing concepts, network modernization etc. will all require post-quantum cryptography for cybersecurity assurance.
Quantum computers also have the ability to perform complex calculations at a much faster rate than classical computers, which could allow them to disable or manipulate military systems. This could potentially disrupt communication networks, navigation systems, and even weapons systems, leading to potential loss of lives and damage to military assets.
First-mover advantage
In July last year, the National Institute of Standards and Technology announced a major milestone in its efforts to standardize post-quantum cryptography algorithms.
New draft standards are a welcome arrival and will hopefully dispel any hesitation about putting concrete transition roadmaps in place. But the bigger picture is that encryption standards are going through their biggest change in decades, and post-quantum cryptography will soon be essential for all businesses hoping to work with the US government. Up to $3 bn of federal quantum projects are now either in operation or planned, including a $1.2 bn National Quantum Initiative.
The advent of quantum technology converges with the race for global tech supremacy as well as a period of turbulent geopolitics. The longer the government and businesses wait to act, the greater the potential harm.
(Source: C4ISR & Networks)
31 Jan 23. Airbus launches European Defence Fund R&D projects. Airbus has launched two defence research and development projects that it is coordinating as part of the 2021 European Defence Fund (EDF). In July 2022, the European Commission selected, among others, eight collaborative projects that Airbus is part of, covering different innovative technology areas. The EDF promotes cooperation among European companies and research institutes of different sizes and geographical origin in the EU, strengthening the resiliency and strategic autonomy of Europe.
Among the 61 collaborative defence R&T and R&D projects that were selected and funded with €1.2bn, Airbus Defence and Space is coordinating the European Defence Operational Collaborative Cloud (EDOCC) project, while Airbus Helicopters is coordinating the EU Next Generation Rotorcraft Technologies Project (ENGRT). The contracts for these projects were signed in December 2022.
EDOCC will create a virtual platform to increase the interoperability, efficiency and resiliency of military operations, which will strengthen collaborative services on the battlefield. The project will study, design and conceptually validate the virtual platform and develop the first version of a services catalogue while identifying appropriate standards and technologies for high performance and interoperability.
ENGRT will focus on analyzing and understanding the needs of European armed forces for rotorcraft operations beyond 2030. The project’s partners will study military rotorcraft concept of operations and define key technologies needed for future military rotorcraft. Alternative rotorcraft concepts and architectures will be explored. This project will pave the way for the next generation of military rotorcraft in Europe.
Airbus is also a partner in six further multinational EDF projects and will contribute with its expertise on the following areas of research and development: Collaborative Air Combat Standardisation; Enhanced Cockpit; European Protected Waveform for SatCom; Cyber Threat Intelligence; Advanced Radar Technologies; and Advanced Radio Frequency components.
The European Defence Fund’s target is to allocate €8bn until 2027.
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