Collaborative Combat
& Autonomous Operations
Enhancing military operational effectiveness and decision-making across land, air, maritime and cyberspace domains. This theme focuses on creating highly adaptive and resilient combat environments where advanced technologies enable seamless coordination between manned and unmanned systems, ensuring effective human-machine cooperation in high-intensity scenarios.
Exemplary relevant topic areas:
- Autonomous systems (land/air/sea)
- AI-assisted mission planning & operation solutions
- Unmanned swarm operations solutions
- Enabling AI on edge (HW & SW)
- Advanced sensors & sensor fusion
- Next Generation Communications
Cyber Warfare &
Information Superiority
Cyber threats continuously evolve, targeting military systems, communications, and data integrity. Advanced, automated defence solutions are essential to counter these threats in real time, ensuring operational resilience, mission assurance, and the protection of sensitive information.
Exemplary relevant topic areas:
- Cyber defence situational awareness
- AI threat detection and defence
- Defence cyber physical system security
- Quantum encryption for secure mililtary communications
- Data integrity in operational environment
- Cybersecure space assets
- Secure connectivity
Combat Medicine &
Battlefield Health Resilience
Ensuring rapid, data-driven medical support is essential to providing real-time, adaptive care in defence operations. These innovations enhance survivability, decision-making and medical readiness by integrating AI and automation ensuring faster diagnosis, optimized treatment, and improved outcomes for military personnel in high-risk situations.
Exemplary relevant topic areas:
- Injury assessment / diagnoses AI
- Wearable biosensors
- Portable life-support units
- Autonomous evacuation
- Automated triage & predictive casualty management
Open Call – Disruptive Technologies
for Defence Superiority
Developing next-generation breakthrough defence technologies to maintain tactical and strategic superiority across land, air, maritime, cyber and space domains for European armed forces. This theme seeks (enabling) technologies with potential disruptive and high-impact outcome on military operations if successful.
Topic areas relevant for defence from STEP
(Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform):
- Deep and digital technologies
- Clean technologies
- Biotechnologies