AI-based tactical situational awareness using swarms of small robots and drones – participation in a technological challenge"
Open
Status as published by the data source.
Scope:
Assisting soldiers with robots and drones that can provide accurate tactical situational awareness by using AI becomes essential for soldier protection. This call topic aims to follow on and complement previous activities in the field of hidden threat detection and explore solutions involving various combinations of intelligent robots, drones and sensing technologies for advanced detection and recognition of threats, in view of their avoidance or neutralisation.
These solutions should be tested under realistic scenarios in a comparable and objective manner to reach up to Technical Readiness Level (TRL) 6. For that purpose, each consortium supported through this call topic will benefit from a common testing environment set up as part of a technological challenge and will have to participate in the experiment campaigns organised with this objective.
Beyond defence technologies, this topic also contributes to the STEP objectives as defined in the STEP Regulation in the target investment area of deep and digital technologies.
Targeted types of activities: Generating knowledge, not excluding upstream and downstream activities eligible for research actions.
Indicative budget: EUR 23 000 000 for this topic under the EDF-2026-LS-RA-CHALLENGE call.
Indicative number of proposals to be funded: Several proposals may be funded for this topic.
Range of the financial contribution of the EU per proposal: The requested funding cannot exceed EUR 4 600 000.
- Status
- Open
- Deadline
- (time not stated)
- Opens
- Published
- Country
- European Union (EU-wide)
- Programme
- European Defence Fund (EDF)
- Official page
- Open at the source portal
Other calls under European Defence Fund (EDF)
- Key electronic components
- Platforms and end-products
- Air and missile defence systems
- C5ISR and other space-related products
- Unmanned systems and counter-unmanned systems
- Ground and naval platforms and systems
- Support for the functioning of SEAPs, including for the purpose of establishing, managing and maintaining defence industrial readiness pools
- Missiles, ammunition and bombs
All calls under this programme
Similar opportunities
- Modelling & simulation supported AI framework for military decision-making and training
- Self-protection systems
- Smart technologies for next generation fighter systems
- Ammunition Waste Collection and Disposal Unmanned Platform
- New abilities in over-the-horizon sensing
- Enhancing the Security, Privacy and Robustness of AI Models and Systems (SecureAI)
Where this came from
- Source document
- https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/data/topicDetails/edf-2026-ls-ra-challenge-digit-aisap-step.json
- Document fingerprint
f3eff2063ebe6558(SHA-256, first 16 hex characters)- Retrieved
- First recorded here
What has changed
- url first recorded as https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/edf-2026-ls-ra-challenge-digit-aisap-step on
- currency first recorded as EUR on
- amount_max first recorded as 0.00 on
- amount_min first recorded as 0.00 on
- deadline first recorded as 2026-09-29 on
- opens_on first recorded as 2026-02-11 on
- published_on first recorded as 2026-01-22 on
- status_basis first recorded as source_status on
- status first recorded as open on
- title first recorded as AI-based tactical situational awareness using swarms of small robots and drones – participation in a technological challenge" on
Data source
© European Union, 2026. Source: EU Funding & Tenders Portal. Reused under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU — CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved from the source on .
The source last updated this document on Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:34:30 GMT.
Personal data of natural persons has been dissociated by quiescence.eu.
This service is not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by the data publishers.