Prior notice · Germany
IRiS – market consultation: robust interaction of robotic systems in heterogeneous swarms for crisis and disaster operations
Agentur für Innovation in der Cybersicherheit GmbH · published 08 Jun 2026 · · Source ↗
Deadline—
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Statusforthcoming
CPV73000000
Why it matters
Cyberagentur market consultations typically precede a funded multi-lot research competition, so early input can shape scope and cost baselines for a swarm-autonomy programme. Relevant to autonomy-stack, swarm C2 and GNSS-denied navigation developers and research-heavy SMEs able to contract with a German federal agency.
Do this: Download the Markterkundung documents at cyberagentur.de/programme/iris and submit your effort and cost estimate plus capability profile to the Cyberagentur now, ahead of the formal IRiS call.
Route: grant application · For: BD / bid leads at defence-tech scale-upsEstablished SME suppliers & subsystem makers
Germany's Cyberagentur (Agentur für Innovation in der Cybersicherheit) has published an expression-of-interest / market consultation for its planned research programme IRiS. The programme targets robust, self-organising and adaptive heterogeneous robotic swarms that remain operat…
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