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- EU Open calls
Next-generation Armoured Infantry Fighting Vehicle
- All sectors
- EU Open calls
- Coordinators: European Defence Fund
- Allocated budget: 25 000 000€ (55%-100% of eligible costs)
- End of applications: 5 November 2024
- Project duration: 12 - 48 months
- Project submitted on: Open calls
Objective
Studies and designs to modernize existing armoured infantry fighting vehicles and develop technologies for new vehicles, focusing on aspects such as mobility, autonomy, survivability, and cybersecurity, while integrating eco-friendly and sustainable technologies and aiming for compatibility with future European combat vehicles.
Priorities
Proposals must include the following mandatory tasks :
Studies :
- Definition of the Concept of Operation, feasibility study, and architecture definition, including operational requirements and critical capacities;
- Cost-benefit analysis of the technological solutions defined during the System Requirement Review.
Design :
- Concept and Preliminary Design Review;
- System Specification, including detailed descriptions of the system and subsystems, and the development of harmonized requirements and vehicle system architecture.
Proposals may also include the following tasks :
- Knowledge integration: Activities to enhance interoperability and resilience, secure production and data exchange, master critical defense technologies, strengthen supply security, and effectively exploit results for defense products and technologies;
- System Prototyping: Creation of tangible or intangible models to demonstrate the performance of a defense product or technology in an operational environment;
- Defense Product Testing: Evaluation of the performance of a defense product, component, or technology;
- Defense Product Qualification: Complete process of demonstrating that the design meets specified requirements, with objective evidence of compliance;
- Defense Product Certification: Process by which a national authority certifies that the product, component, or technology complies with applicable regulations;
- Technology Development: Creation of technologies or assets to improve efficiency throughout the lifecycle of defense products and technologies.
Eligibility
- Eligible Entities: Legal entities (public or private);
- Eligible Countries: EU Member States (including overseas territories), EEA countries (EDF associated countries, see list of participating countries);
- Consortium: At least 3 independent entities from 3 different eligible countries.
