About
E-NACSOS – European Naval Collaborative Surveillance Operational Standard.
The E-NACSOS programme is a four-year collaborative project linked to European Defence Fund (EDF). This programme is executed by an industrial consortium coordinated by Naval Group. The project kicked-off in December 2024.
E-NACSOS is managed by OCCAR acting in the name of the European Commission and the following supporting Member States: Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Spain and Sweden.
European standard
Thanks to the active cooperation of 8 European Ministries of Defence, E-NACSOS will provide a European standard to facilitate future collaboration between European Navies following a four-steps approach.
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STUDIES
Identification of the functions to be incorporated technologies to be added to the Naval Collaborative Surveillance (NCS) standard.
DESIGN
Design of two successive increments of this NCS capacity.
PROTOTYPING
Production of demonstrators implementing successive increments.
TESTING
Demonstrations in simulated & real environment.
E-NACSOS is composed of 13 work packages (WP). The management and coordination of the project is ensured by WP1 and WP13 is addressing communication, dissemination and standardisation activities. The other WPs address the technical implementation of the project, with an incremental approach.
WP2 undertakes the common methodology to be adopted in the project while WP3 and WP4 are addressing respectively the advanced studies and concept analysis as well as the study of the network architecture to be used. WP2 to WP4 will feed WP5 which is dedicated to the definition and the detailed design of the NCS standard including a set of protocols and functions.
WP6 is dedicated to the study of the NCS integration into EU navies’ systems as well as the updates to be brought on the combat systems.
Two increments are foreseen within the project, with an increasing level of functionalities; each increment tackles successively the design, the prototyping and the demonstration phases (WP7, WP8, WP9 for increment 1; WP10, WP11, WP12 for increment 2).
