Expected Impact:
The outcome should contribute to:
- Reduce dependencies on non-European suppliers by boosting the EDTIB and promoting the development of a European solution.
- The availability of a critical enabler for CSDP operations and missions in providing scalable secure and resilient communications in peacetime and during operations with protection against intrusion, hacking, jamming, traffic monitoring and eavesdropping;
- Full interoperability between different demanders and suppliers of satellite communication in support of military operations and missions;
- Secure, guaranteed and affordable access to satellite communications for all Member States and EDF Associated Countries;
- Strongly increase European autonomy in satellite communication for defence users and remove dependency on support from outside the EU for the transmission and exchange of mission critical and sensitive information;
- State-of-the-art technological solution in line with the latest satellite innovations and initiatives such as 5G, small LEO/MEO satellites, connected vehicles and Internet of things.
In today's military applications supported by satellite communications, security, information assurance and link efficiency are inextricably linked. Military operations are becoming more complex as conflict areas grow more dispersed on a global scale, with a growing need to support a diversity of on-the-move, on-the-pause and fixed platforms. At the same time, security threats are becoming more apparent, raising concerns that nations, terrorist groups,
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