Project Description
The NEWA project aims at addressing and fully characterizing limiting factors in EU which limit the access to required technology and capabilities, creating large dependence on critical technologies from outside Europe specifically in space techniques applications. This mainly originates from the large number of past and on-going efforts conducted in space-based and air-based surveillance systems design and development in the US.
Collaborating Companies or Organisations
Indra's Role
Indra leads the tasks “Review of enabling technologies”, “Synergies with space & defence programmes” and “Technical and Technological Issues”.
Universities and Technological Centres
Technologies used
In particular NEWA will be focussed on Techniques and Technology development in the MTI framework. The idea for space-based MTI capabilities was envisaged several years ago, and experiments and pre-cursor programs were implemented in the US since 90ies. However, achievements and findings are not generally public due to dual-use of such components (Defence and Security), which poses restrictions on their export. NEWA Action is intended to perform a thorough Technology Assessment and identify ad hoc Roadmaps for EU Research & Development in the field of space-based Reconnaissance & Surveillance (R&S), which allow reducing the mentioned dependence from non EU capabilities and technologies.
More information
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no FP7- 241630.
ONU Sustainable Development Goals:
