The Spanish international technology company AERTEC joins a new and ambitious European project that is part of the European Defence Industrial Development Programme (EDIDP- European Defence. Industrial Development Program), driven by the European Union to increase its own capabilities in this field.
The TARSIS UAS will be integrated into this European defense system, in which AERTEC will also contribute its expertise in machine learning and artificial intelligence technology.
This new project, called JEY-CUAS (Joint European System for Countering Unmanned Aerial Systems) will develop a joint system for counteract the growing threat posed by unmanned aerial systems in the field of security and defense of European nations. The consortium is led by the Italian company Leonardo, and it includes 37 entities and companies from 14 European countries, including Spain. Over 24 months, and with a budget of 15 million euros, these leading companies in the European Defense industry will contribute the latest technological advances to design a cutting-edge C-UAS system that will contribute to improve situational awareness and reaction time to overcome the growing resistance of unmanned aircraft to first-generation C-UAS systems.
AERTEC will contribute all its knowledge in the field of UAS, especially in trajectory management and the application of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning technologies. Machine Learning, that will help define a algorithm for predicting trajectories and estimating behavior of physical models, based on probabilistic techniques. AERTEC will employ Artificial Intelligence to train the algorithm, and adapt computational techniques (based on advanced data analysis and swarm intelligence-based machine learning) to improve the prediction rates of trajectories.
These technologies will be integrated into AERTEC’s TARSIS UAS, which, in surveillance configuration, will serve as an additional platform that will allow different sensors to be integrated into the JEY-CUAS system. Integrated into the Command and Control (C2) system, the surveillance drone will provide a different perspective from the air of the overall threat, including situational awareness.
For Pedro Becerra, Corporate Director of Aerospace & Defence at AERTEC, “joining this project, which is a technological challenge for the European entities that are part of the consortium, will allow us to consolidate the use cases and capabilities of TARSIS and its tactical simulation environment in the field of defense.”.
The integration and operation of TARSIS in this future joint defense system represents an increase in the capabilities of its own UAS and a qualitative leap at the European level, favoring AERTEC's positioning in the market as a provider of unmanned systems for defense capabilities.
