Airbus is participating in 10 collaborative defence research and development projects funded by the European Commission as part of the European Defence Fund (EDF).

The European Commission announced in the last days plans to fund 41 collaborative defence research and development (R&D) projects with a total budget of € 832 million. This funding decision comes as a result of a call for proposals issued in 2022.
 
 The EDF proposals are designed to support high-end defence capability projects in critical areas such as, naval, ground, air combat, space-based early warning and cyber.
 
Out of the 10 projects with Airbus participation, the company is expected to coordinate four of them: 

the Single European Sky and InterOPerability; 

EUropean Cyber and INFormation warfare toolbox; 

a Future Air System for European Tactical Transportation;

Space based Persistent ISR for Defence and Europe Reinforcement.

The European Commission announced it will now enter into grant agreement preparation with the selected consortia. Pending a successful conclusion of these preparations, the grant agreements are expected to be signed before the end of the year.