The Commission has adopted the fifth annual Work Programme under the European Defence Fund (EDF), allocating over €1 billion to defence collaborative research and development projects. The new programme supports the development of critical defence technologies and capabilities required in line with the EU capability priorities agreed by Member States and further elaborated in the Strategic Compass. It launches 9 competitive calls for proposals addressing 31 topics. Calls for proposals will prepare the ground for a wide range of enabling technologies related to autonomous triage and evacuation of injured personnel, multifunctional information distribution system, human-AI dialogue, chiplets for defence applications, soldier systems, and great-depth enabling technologies.
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