The outcomes should contribute to:
- Enhanced security for EU Member States and EDF Associated Countries for the areas ASW, SBW, ISR, SF, MCM, MDO, protection of critical infrastructure and situational awareness.
- Use of synergies within European Defence Technological and Industrial Base (EDTIB) to develop common interoperable standards, to avoid duplications or incompatible technology solutions and to reduce development risks/costs.
- Improvement of EU strategical competitiveness and autonomy.
The rapid emergence of unmanned systems in all military operational domains leads to radical changes in the operational strategies of the armed forces. This topic aims to address these changes and in particular EU capabilities to operate and coordinate unmanned systems in the underwater warfare domain (UWW). These systems are limited by the challenging environment (e.g., low communication range/bandwidth, no satellite navigation, poor visibility) and technology gaps (e.g., incompatible technologies, missing common interoperable standards).
Ongoing research on underwater observation, detection, acquisition and communications is expected to make an evaluation of critical technologies for detection of underwater threats for protection of maritime infrastructures and coastal strategic areas and assets and identify novel technologies for improved situational awareness. Several unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) and stationary systems with different characteristics and capabilities exists in Europe, but currently no manned-unmanned teaming
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