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Expected Outcome:
Objective:
Dual-use technologies have emerged as a cornerstone in addressing both cybersecurity threats and broader cyber defence needs. The integration of advanced civilian and military technologies under a unified framework is critical to bolstering resilience across critical infrastructure, ensuring data security. In addition, addressing cybercrime and hybrid threats will contribute to maintaining societal stability.
Cross fertilisation and spill-over effects from synergies between the civil and defence spheres have proven to be an important driver for innovation, industrial deployment and market uptake. Such effects should also be fostered for cybersecurity and cyber defence. The results could lead to increased resilience to cyber threats and better protection of both civilian and defence critical infrastructures.
Building on Digital Europe Programme, Horizon Europe, and the European Defence Fund, the EU must prioritise collaborative pilot projects. These projects results can bridge civilian and defence sectors, fostering innovations in relevant key technologies such as quantum-safe cryptography, Zero Trust Architectures (ZTA), and AI-driven threat detection systems. Such efforts are essential to addressing emerging cyber threats while ensuring interoperability and scalability across sectors.
The objective is to enhance cooperation between the civil and defence spheres regarding dual use projects, services, competences and applications in cybersecurity in line with Article 6.1(f) of the DEP Regulation and Article 5.3(g) of the ECCC Regulation.
Scope:
The objective is to enhance operational cooperation between the civil and defence spheres through the development of dual-use working prototypes, ready-to-market products and operational infrastructures related to cybersecurity technologies, applications and tools that have relevance in both civilian and defence context.
Examples of domains of interest for this call topic are:
Other cybersecurity domains where the civil and defence spheres have a common interest in developing working systems together will also fall within the scope of this call topic.
The above domains are expected to be demonstrated and deployed for (but not limited to):
Upon request from the ECCC, project consortia will participate in clustering activities to define common actions and to enhance synergies between the civilian and defence communities.
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