Resulting from the dramatic decline in the ice cover, new economic opportunities are emerging, such as new traffic routes for the transport of goods from east to west and access to recently accessible natural resources. However, these changes have the potential to increase environmental threats and security concerns in the region coming from interest on the intensive exploitation of natural resources on the artic land areas; increasing risk of seaborne disaster and oil spills or establishment of permanent human facilities compromising European security. The consensus within the EU to maintain a multilateral cooperation approach to ensure stability and dialogued solution in the region triggers an increasing demand of situational awareness for the EU. The objective of ARCOS is to design and implement an early-warning system providing continuous monitoring of the Arctic Region. Designed to generate actionable products in the security domain by processing and fusing multi-sensor data, the system integrates available information from space, non-space sources and products available from multiple Copernicus services. ARCOS generates information at three different levels of scale and user interaction: - Level 1. Automatic Early-warning System. Integration of space and non-space data sources for the triggering of alarms on the region when certain conditions are met. Automatic early-warnings are generated in case anomalous behaviours are detected. For this wide-area monitoring, automatic extraction of analytics and AI techniques are applied. - Level 2. User-Driven Alert System, where space and non-space data is processed on specific locations provided by the user. The alarms can be configured based contextual information based on the user input. - Level 3. Geospatial Intelligence Products. Following early-warnings generated in Level 1 or 2, geospatial intelligence products requiring human intervention are provided upon user request.

Maritime surveillance is crucial for achieving maritime situational awareness (MSA) and to effectively prevent, protect, and respond to critical security challenges (e.g., illicit commercial activities, irregular migration, pollution, terrorist attacks). CROSSMARE aims to overcome existing challenges in border and maritime surveillance by introducing a layered maritime surveillance network and an interoperability framework that integrates the space, air, surface, and underwater domains within a comprehensive monitoring picture, enhancing MSA and surveillance capabilities. To achieve this, a consortium of 17 big industries, SMEs, RTOs, and end-users a) utilize cutting-edge technologies in the context of maritime surveillance: High Altitude Platform Stations; Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems; High-Res SAR Sat imagery; Unmanned Aerial Vehicles; Autonomous Underwater & Unmanned Surface Vehicles; novel Flash LiDAR sensors; as well as legacy surveillance systems, b) apply innovative AI algorithms; Large Language and Visual Models; Advanced multi-modal data fusion, c) extend the capabilities of existing C2 and HMIs, also supporting intelligent mission management of manned and unmanned systems, d) and support the interoperability of novel and legacy surveillance systems, improving cross-border and cross-agency collaboration. To this end, CROSSMARE aims to demonstrate interoperable data exchange with CISE and proposes an extension to the current CISE data and service model, enhancing existing and enabling new functionalities. The project will validate the proposed technologies through a series of validation activities: a) continuous integration testing, b) 2 Small Scale Tests (Italy, Lithuania), c) a Table Top Exercise (Romania), and d) a Full Scale Demonstration (Spain) involving real assets, end-users and relevant stakeholders. A Security and Privacy-by-design framework will ensure compliance with fundamental rights, privacy and personal data protection regulations.

Companies involved in Artic operations have a common need for fast update ice surveillance imagery to provide quick response to the risks posed by moving ice fields for vessels moving at several knots. Right now satellite picture providers offer response times of up to 16 hours with a 12-hour refresh time, creating a need directly confirmed by potential users for systems that offer a higher picture refresh rate. Bringing together expertise in military radars, microsatellites and data analysis, our team has developed an ice information service that offers a 2-hour image refresh rate for tracking ice features using a constellation of 6 microsatellites with Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging. The ICEYE solution will provide customers up to 25% increase in operational efficiency, reducing fleet sizes and greatly lowering the risk of tanker accidents in the Arctic. The need has been confirmed by our market studies in the case of oil exploration and the offshore supply market for permanent rig and support operations. Our customer development activities with potential clients show an important number of planned Arctic operations within the next few years, driving their interest and willingness to pay for the ICEYE information services. The spectrum of potential customers also includes industries not related to the Arctic, such as insurance, crisis monitoring and response, defence and crop monitoring in line with the EU Copernicus programme. As an entrepreneurial spinoff from a university business and engineering project, Iceye Arctic Intel is an innovation-driven company whose size has not been an obstacle to attracting the interest of major players with a key stake in our growth to become a commercial service provider with the launch of our first satellite. Thus the objective of this project is to integrate, pilot test and demonstrate the ICEYE system in its final form as a microsatellite in order to attract private investment for launching.

Space activities have increased impressively in the last decades. New actors and concepts are raising new challenges to ensure the security, safety, sustainability and stability of space operations. Initiatives on national and international level aim to tackle this issue through promotion of prevention, understanding the situation, active collision avoidance operations as well as active debris removal. To ensure autonomy and leadership in the field whilst reducing the dependability on U.S. SSA data, the EU started to work on an independent SSA/SST capability. EUSTM is an end-to end activity towards the definition of a future STM capability: • Counting on the main experts in all applicable domains within the team • Consulting the main stakeholders worldwide in relevant domains • Defining the needs in terms of organisation and responsibilities, technology, policy, laws, guidelines, best practices and standards • Elaborating detailed specs, a preliminary design, a reference roadmap and a ROM cost analysis • Developing an innovative collaborative platform for exchange of information inside the team and with external stakeholders • Creating a community of interest on STM be active beyond the duration of the project • Organising workshops and a dedicated European STM Conference anchored to a space event EUSTM is coordinated by GMV, the main European industrial player in the SSA/SST domain supported by European … • industrial players and research institutes from all across Europe • experts in SSA/SST-related technologies • current and future (NewSpace) users (EUTELSAT and many others) • experts in the policy (ESPI), governance & security (SatCen) and legal domains (IDEST), professionals for impact assessment and cost benefit analysis (PwC) and key actors in the air traffic management domain (ENAIRE) EUSTM is supported by 20+ additional stakeholders including operators, industry, emerging NewSpace players and institutions, as well as the Secure World Foundation.