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Call for Proposals: "Technological demonstrator for enhanced situational awareness in a naval environment" - PADR-US-01-2017.

Call for proposals

Preparatory Action for Defence Research 2017

“Technological demonstrator for enhanced situational awareness in a naval environment” - PADR-US-01-2017.

 

Objectives and description


The European Defence Agency has published a call for proposals under the Preparatory Action for Defence Research 2017, under the topic “Technological demonstrator for enhanced situational awareness in a naval environment” - PADR-US-01-2017.

 

In a defence context, naval forces are engaged permanently, including in various types of conflicts, asymmetric or symmetric. They must control their environment in order to scan, detect and analyse as soon as possible the intentions of other forces and potential threats, in order to retain capacity of initiative, freedom of movement and to achieve the desired endeffect. In this respect, maritime Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance (ISTAR), complemented with neutralisation capacities, is a key capability from a strategic or tactical perspective. The ISTAR chain is a critical enabler to the common Recognized Maritime Picture (RMP), for detection, identification, tracking and target acquisition, as well as for strengthening interoperability.

 

The project aims to show the added value of unmanned systems in enhancing situational awareness while operating alongside and communicating with other manned and unmanned systems. In particular this topic calls for proposals that convincingly remove technological obstacles, and combine innovation and integration, in order to demonstrate that situational awareness in a naval environment can be significantly improved.

 

More specifically, proposals should balance R&T efforts in the following two areas:

1.     Integration in naval systems of close-to-market new or improved existing platforms demonstrator with improved sensors capacity, persistence and autonomy:

To achieve the desirable (and affordable) compromise between needs and solutions, and in terms of payload vs. platform, efforts are needed to remove technological obstacles concerning platform technologies, technologies related to the integration into military ship environment, payload and sensors architecture-related technologies, control systems and handling quality, autonomous operation, as well as security aspects. The project should not aim at developing a new platform but focus on developing key technologies while using existing platforms, as a basis for developing this work strand of the project as well as for the demonstration testing. Proposals should underline the impact of new or improved existing platforms and of their technological content on, e.g., endurance, range, autonomy, payload capacity and trade-off between size/weight and performances, enhanced sensors performance, resilience and redundancy of Command and Control links and data links.


2.     Demonstration of integration of data from multiple sources in a single predefined tactical picture:

Proposals should underline (i) the improved interaction/coordination between (semi-) autonomous platforms and man-machine interaction and interface issues, (ii) improved quality of situational awareness compared to that provided by traditional assets (higher quality at lower risk and cost), (iii) impact in reduction of human involvement in operation. Proposals should also demonstrate that naval combat management systems will maximise the exploitation of the potential of unmanned systems through the development of a shared situational awareness. NATO-EU interoperability will be important in that regard as well as interoperability with civil systems if appropriate.

 

Eligible activities


1.     Integration in naval systems of close-to-market new or improved existing platforms demonstrator with improved sensors capacity, persistence and autonomy:

Proposals would address aspects such as:

·         Platform protection in contested environments;

·         Anti-jamming and electronic counter-measures;

·         Capability to be launched and recovered from manned platforms also in severe meteorological conditions (objective: up to Sea State 5);

·         Autonomy motivated by the need to reduce manning, risk and cost of platform operation. Examples include: Autonomous piloting, anti-collision, automated replanning and execution, adaptive behaviour, automated fault management systems, local automated sensor processing, local situation awareness without man-in-the-loop, automatic launch and recovery;

·         Navigation need for accurate positioning and for establishing redundancy to GNSS;

·         High speed secure and real time or near real time communication including cyber protection;

·         Operation of the platform under severe climatological conditions;

·         Operation of the platform from navy ships under severe sea state conditions;

·         Improved sensors and payload capacity;

·         Capability of the platform to transport cargo/utility and to drop payloads;

·         If relevant, optionally piloted capability to allow maximum flexibility for larger types and demonstrate interaction and operational flexibility between manned, unmanned, optionally manned vehicles.

·         The compatibility with STANAG 4586 (NATO UAV Control System), 4545 (NATO Secondary imagery format), 4609 (NATO Digital Motion Imagery Standard) should be ensured.

 

2.     Demonstration of integration of data from multiple sources in a single predefined tactical picture:

Proposals should address aspects such as:

·         Determination of data exchange systems C4ISR;

·         Multi sensor information fusion;

·         Data request for area / time of interest;

·         Data analysis, exploitation and visualisation;

·         Operation planning and control;

·         Integration and interoperability with the vessel command and control (CMS) or a MOC;

·         Integration of sensor information provided by Member States (CISE, MARSUR);

·         Analysis of data requests (satellite, unmanned and manned aerial and naval systems);

·         High level of data processing integration, on board vehicle and possibly off board;

·         Close to real-time transmission (datalink allowing e.g. full motion video) and data fusion with long term history assessment and detection of anomalies;

·         Encryption and cyber security for exchange of classified information;

·         Simulation aspects for operators.


Eligible participants


Legal entities established in the Member States shall be eligible to participate in this call for proposals. The participants can be public authorities, industrial organisations, SMEs, higher education institutions and research organisations.

 

All eligible applicants, they shall be able to produce a security clearance at the appropriate level obtained from their National Security Authority.

 

The following exceptions apply:

·         at least five legal entities shall participate in an action;

·         these five legal entities shall each be established in a different Member State or associated country;

·         the legal entities referred to in point (b) shall be independent of each other within the meaning described in General Annex C.

 

Funding conditions and duration


The Commission considers that proposal requesting a contribution from the EU between EUR 32 and 36 million would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately.

 

Given the constraints on the yearly budget of the Preparatory Action, full proposals should include upon a single submission the description of:

·         a core part which would need a EU contribution between EUR 14 and 16 million from the 2017 budget;

·         up to 4 additional research modules with a EU contribution of up to EUR 5 million each that would extend the core project to cover the topic more substantially.

 

The EU grant covers 100% of total eligible costs.

 

Deadline of proposals' submission


The deadline for the submission of proposals is 5 October 2017 – 17.00 (Brussels time).

 

Applicants are requested to submit their proposals online in the participant’s portal.

 

Further information


Please find attached the documents of the call.The guide for applicants will be available soon.

 

For further assistance related to the call, topics and the content of proposals, please contact preparatoryaction@eda.europa.eu


More information: https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/pppa/topics/padr-us-01-2017.html

 


Kind regards,

Flora

 

Flora Stavropoulou
Intern

European Office of Cyprus

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E-mail: eoc.brussels2@ucy.ac.cy

 

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