NAIAD

The rise of unmanned vehicles in civil and military environments, together with the evolution towards asymmetric warfare, multi-domain warfare and the Combat Cloud, has reinforced their role as key assets. Their application in tasks such as resource protection, remote deployment of sensors and weapons, and countermeasures against mines or hostile UxVs, highlights the need to maximise their operational potential. The main challenge lies in developing a system that extracts the maximum value from its payloads in all domains, and that allows its capabilities to be shared with other systems, both local and remote. A unified and standardised solution is essential to facilitate the integration of new and existing vehicles, remote control, mission planning and monitoring, asset orchestration, and interoperability with current and emerging platforms such as C4IP, combat systems and the future Combat Cloud.

NAIAD aims to be a system with a high capacity for multi-domain vehicle integration, based on its service architecture, flexible in configuration and adaptable to different interoperability standards, following the STANAG 4817 guidelines. For the same reason, it facilitates multi-system integration, allowing its deployment in different architectures, including HCI architectures. Modularity is a primary objective in its architecture, achieving a system that is flexible, scalable and adaptable to different configurations and systems".