Collaborative Combat for Land Forces

Application is open for the Submit Proposals for Collaborative Combat for Land Forces. The proposals must address the development of innovative multi-national collaborative land combat operational capabilities in order to optimize the use of the new or upgraded military land systems that are being developed by different European countries. The collaborative scenario will include all tactical levels (from dismounted soldiers up to operation command posts) ensuring information sharing between every entity on the battlefield through a robust flexible and secure communication framework. Furthermore, they may cover several collaborative functions ranging from geolocalisation and observation to manoeuvre or fire coordination.

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Eligibility

• As described in section 6 of the call document

They must include:

• Common analysis of operational scenarios (possibly warfare simulation), consistent with the participating Member States and Norway (pMS) planned and fielded tactical products and targeted platforms (vehicles, containers, soldiers, radios, etc.);
• Identification of key enabling technologies;
• Definition of a coordinated approach concerning middleware architecture frameworks for land collaborative combat;
• Analysis of applicable standards and norms as well as evolution proposals;
• Definition and realization of incremental real-world key demonstrations (including preliminary prototyping within the simulated environment).

Benefits

Expected advantages and benefits of collaborative warfare:

• Speed up and improve the decision-making process;
• Reduce the time between threat detection/aggression and action or response (e.g., manoeuvre, fire, close air support);
• Make critical information available at the right time to the right user (“actionable intelligence”);
• Share knowledge / understand a situation, in real-time or near real-time with our neighbouring units;
• Create and share a recognized ground picture (RGP) in real-time (condition of NATO Federated Mission Network (FMN) spiral 2 and higher), to constantly update situational awareness and feed the Joint Common Operational Picture (JCOP) and vice versa;
• Enable friendly forces to gain the tactical initiative (which means presenting the situation and the options in an adequate way to the operator using adapted human-machine interface (HMI), for instance with augmented reality, modelling or simulation);
• Enable dynamic and reliable interoperability when using the different manned/unmanned platforms (size, weight, type, theatre crossing speed, presence of unmanned systems etc.) and therefore trigger mobility skills to define a complex combat collaboration among systems, which can capitalize information in order to interact efficiently and proficiently.

Application process

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