Dassault Aviation organized today at its Saint-Cloud (France) site, together with its European industry and research partners, the kick-off meeting of the EICACS (European Initiative for Collaborative Air Combat Standardisation) project.
European Defence Fund: #DassaultAviation launches, at the industrial level, the EICACS project, a European initiative for the standardization of collaborative air combat https://t.co/DXr980krsP pic.twitter.com/et56dCUP5A
— Dassault Aviation (@Dassault_OnAir) February 3, 2023
The subsidy contract, awarded by the European Commission on December 19, 2022, designates Dassault Aviation as the coordinator of this study project, which brings together 37 industrial and research organizations from 11 European Union countries.
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Supported by the European Union with 75 million euros under the 2021 program of the European Defense Fund (EDF), this project aims to define, within a European framework, future interoperability standards for collaborative air combat.
It will strengthen the ability of European air forces to carry out their missions more effectively and to act in coalitions involving manned and unmanned systems, future air combat systems and existing platforms, as well as their evolutions.
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This EICACS project will last three years and brings together the entire European combat aeronautics industry, as well as various partners from the research world, around a crucial project for the European Union’s air forces.
