Research programme
Domains: Data Acquisition and Processing (DAP) ; Mobility, Systems & Protection(MSP) ; Human Factors & Medicine (HFM)
Defence research institutions: Royal Military Academy (RMA) ; Military Hospital Queen Astrid (MHRA) ; Defence Laboratories (DLD)
| Study | Title | Institute | Domain | Focus areas | Start date | End date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HFM/15-01 | Best Practices for CBRN Incidents and Battlefield Medical Support | RMA | HFM | Advanced Military Health | 2016-09-01 | 2021-03-01 |
| DAP/16-04 | Non-lethal use of lasers on the modern battlefield | RMA | DAP | Novel weapon systems | 2016-09-01 | 2021-03-31 |
| HFM/17-04 | On-site Identification of Unknown agents from Metagenomic Samples using (NGS) sequencing | DLD | HFM | Advanced Military Health | 2017-05-01 | 2021-04-30 |
| DAP/17-05 | Protection of harbours against the threat of Remotely Piloted Systems – a passive systems approach (PH-RPAS). | RMA | DAP | Protection of personnel, systems and infrastructure | 2017-07-01 | 2021-06-30 |
| MSP/17-07 | Development of a new methodology to evaluate the mine resistance after vehicle modifications | RMA | MSP | Protection of personnel, systems and infrastructure | 2017-07-01 | 2021-06-30 |
| HFM/17-03 | Développement de méthodes innovantes pour l’amplification ultra-rapide et la détection spécifique des agents biologiques hautement pathogènes (CBRN) en conditions opérationnelles. | DLD | HFM | Advanced Military Health | 2017-09-01 | 2021-08-31 |
| HFM/18-01 | A single centre open-label pilot study to assess the immunogenicity and safety of multiple combined intradermal dosing regimens during one single visit: The all-in one study | MHRA | HFM | Advanced Military Health | 2018-09-01 | 2021-08-31 |
| MSP/16-06 | Multiphase flow modeling for CBRN applications | RMA | MSP | Protection of personnel, systems and infrastructure | 2016-10-01 | 2021-08-31 |
| DAP/17-01 | Multi band efficient networks for ad hoc communications | RMA | DAP | Communications | 2017-10-01 | 2021-09-30 |
| HFM/17-05 | Performance enhancement during flight training: a way to reduce attrition and increase the operationality of flight crews? | RMA | HFM | Advanced Military Health | 2017-10-01 | 2021-09-30 |
| DAP/16-02 | Study of cryptographic techniques with a focus on practical aspects of symmetric key algorithms and hash functions | RMA | DAP | Cybersecurity | 2016-01-01 | 2021-12-31 |
| DAP/18-01 | Digital image forensics and steganalysis | RMA | DAP | Cybersecurity | 2018-01-01 | 2021-12-31 |
| HFM/18-04 | The design of effective performance measurement systems for defense and security organisations | RMA | HFM | Human Systems and Behaviour | 2018-01-01 | 2021-12-31 |
| MSP/18-01 | Characterisation of the effects of temperature and ageing on fibre-based materials for ballistic applications | RMA | MSP | Protection of personnel, systems and infrastructure | 2018-01-01 | 2021-12-31 |
| MSP/18-02 | Study of low cost lightweight ceramic sacrificial claddings for the protection of vehicles against IED threats | RMA | MSP | Protection of personnel, systems and infrastructure | 2018-01-01 | 2021-12-31 |
| MSP/18-03 | Development of Thorax/abdomen and Head Finite Element Models for the risk assessment of blunt impacts on the human body | RMA | MSP | Protection of personnel, systems and infrastructure | 2018-01-01 | 2021-12-31 |
| MSP/18-05 | A new framework to evaluate the ballistic resistance of combat vehicles | RMA | MSP | Protection of personnel, systems and infrastructure | 2018-01-01 | 2021-12-31 |
| MSP/18-06 | Development of a system-of-systems model for rapid prototyping of kinetic weapon systems | RMA | MSP | Novel weapon systems | 2018-01-01 | 2021-12-31 |
| MSP/18-09 | Commissioning and exploitation of an ICRH system for the stellarator W7-X | RMA | MSP | Sustainable new generation energy systems | 2018-01-01 | 2021-12-31 |
| SMS/16-01 | An expert simulation system for MCM operations using unmanned systems | RMA | MSP | Intelligent autonomous systems and platforms | 2018-01-15 | 2021-12-31 |
| DAP/18-02 | Vulnerability of mid-wave infrared thermal imaging systems to current and future laser weapon threats | RMA | DAP | Sensor Data Processing and Sensor Fusion | 2018-02-01 | 2022-01-31 |
| DAP/19-07 | Naval environmental data model | RMA | DAP | Big Data | 2019-04-01 | 2022-03-31 |
| HFM/18-10 | Assessment of water quality prior and after decontamination under field conditions | DLD | HFM | Protection of personnel, systems and infrastructure | 2018-05-01 | 2022-04-30 |
| SIC/11 | Distributed semi-supervised clustering for Advanced Persistent Threats detection | RMA | DAP | Cybersecurity | 2016-10-01 | 2022-07-01 |
| DAP/19-06 | RF-based indoor positioning, navigation and timing (iPoint) system | RMA | DAP | Sensor Data Processing and Sensor Fusion | 2019-09-01 | 2022-08-31 |
| HFM/18-03 | La Défense belge face à la diversité ethnique, au processus de radicalisation et au terrorisme | RMA | HFM | Human Systems and Behaviour | 2019-10-15 | 2022-10-14 |
| DAP/19-01 | Toolbox implementation for automated mine-search operations | RMA | DAP | Big Data | 2019-01-01 | 2022-12-31 |
| DAP/19-08 | Enhancing Maritime Situational Awareness with Unmanned Surface Vehicle Swarms in the Fight against Illegal Maritime Traffic | RMA | MSP | Intelligent autonomous systems and platforms | 2019-01-01 | 2022-12-31 |
| HFM/18-05 | Monitoring and modeling physical function and performance in military rehabilitation | MHRA | HFM | Advanced Military Health | 2018-01-01 | 2022-12-31 |
| HFM/19-05 | Simulation engine for military RPAS (Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems) operations with integrated Human factors and standardised test methodologies | RMA | HFM | Human Systems and Behaviour | 2019-01-01 | 2022-12-31 |
| HFM/19-10 | Du traumatisme organisationnel à la résilience organisationnelle | MHRA | HFM | Human Systems and Behaviour | 2019-01-01 | 2022-12-31 |
| HFM/19-12 | Monitoring of bacteria-phage co-evolution during phage therapy of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infected burn wounds | MHRA | HFM | Advanced Military Health | 2019-01-01 | 2022-12-31 |
| MB/14 | CFD modeling of CBRN type attacks (release of small particles) in confined spaces | RMA | MSP | Protection of personnel, systems and infrastructure | 2019-01-01 | 2022-12-31 |
| MSP/19-04 | Homemade explosives: phlegmatization, detection and post-blast analysis of TATP and HMTD | RMA | MSP | Protection of personnel, systems and infrastructure | 2019-01-01 | 2022-12-31 |
| MSP/19-08 | Tailored High Altitude Propeller | RMA | MSP | Intelligent autonomous systems and platforms | 2019-10-01 | 2022-12-31 |
| HFM/19-11 | Development of custom pilot biosurveillance panels for the identification of biothreat agents combined with the detection of antimicrobial resistance and virulence markers by using NGS technologies | DLD | HFM | Protection of personnel, systems and infrastructure | 2019-05-02 | 2023-04-30 |
| DAP/19-02 | Study of a tactical level counter-UAS system based on RF detection and smart jamming | RMA | DAP | Sensor Data Processing and Sensor Fusion | 2019-07-01 | 2023-06-30 |
| DAP/19-05 | The analysis of combustion plumes through hyperspectral imaging | RMA | DAP | Sensor Data Processing and Sensor Fusion | 2019-04-01 | 2023-06-30 |
| DAP/19-04 | Artificial intelligence for automated scene understanding for battlefield awareness | RMA | DAP | Big Data | 2019-09-01 | 2023-08-31 |
| HFM/19-07 | Fight as you train or train as you fight? Developing and integrating "deviation education" as an aviation safety tool | RMA | HFM | Advanced Military Health | 2019-09-01 | 2023-08-31 |
| DAP/18-05 | Automation of ship-based intelligence gathering | RMA | DAP | Sensor Data Processing and Sensor Fusion | 2019-09-02 | 2023-09-01 |
| HFM/19-08 | Counteracting military medical skills fade | RMA | HFM | Advanced Military Health | 2019-10-01 | 2023-09-30 |
| HFM/19-06 | Making blood available far forward: walking blood bank | MHRA | HFM | Advanced Military Health | 2019-10-01 | 2023-10-30 |
| DAP/18-04 | Development and integration of a military augmented reality system for Belgian Defence operations | RMA | DAP | Sensor Data Processing and Sensor Fusion | 2018-10-01 | 2023-10-31 |
| DAP/20-01 | Security issues related to SS7 and Diameter | RMA | DAP | Cybersecurity | 2020-07-01 | 2023-12-31 |
| DAP/20-03 | Building a multi-agent system for APT detection | RMA | DAP | Cybersecurity | 2020-01-01 | 2023-12-31 |
| HFM/20-06 | Change in Public Sector Organizations | RMA | HFM | Human Systems and Behaviour | 2020-01-01 | 2023-12-31 |
| HFM/20-08 | Load and Injury Risk during Military Training: Screening & Monitoring | MHRA | HFM | Advanced Military Health | 2020-02-01 | 2023-12-31 |
| HFM/20-10 | The MALARIAAPP study: Compliance to Malaria Prophylaxis in Armed Forces Deployed in Endemic Regions | MHRA | HFM | Advanced Military Health | 2020-07-01 | 2023-12-31 |
| HFM/20-12 | Development and Characterization of Smart Textile Systems in the Field of Thermophysiological Comfort: Optimisation of Clothing Systems and Identification of the Impact of Wearing those Clothing Systems on the Operational Capability | DLD | HFM | Protection of personnel, systems and infrastructure | 2020-01-01 | 2023-12-31 |
| HFM/21-13 | A single centre for open-label non-interferiority trial to assess the immunogenicity and safety of an intradermal and an intramuscular single visit dosing regimentof purified chick-embryo cell culture rabies vaccine in adults - the SINGLGE R study | MHRA | HFM | Advanced Military Health | 2021-01-01 | 2023-12-31 |
| MSP/19-03 | Design of a low collateral damage ballistic weapon system for short range LSS UAV neutralization | RMA | MSP | Novel weapon systems | 2020-03-02 | 2024-03-01 |
| DAP/20-07 | Let’s teach Belgium a Cyber lesson - Social Driven Vulnerability Assessment (SDVA) against phishing | RMA | DAP | Cybersecurity | 2020-04-01 | 2024-03-31 |
| HFM/19-02 | Réintégration post-déploiement: Décrire, comprendre et prédire les risques psychosociaux liés aux déploiements | RMA | HFM | Human Systems and Behaviour | 2020-05-01 | 2024-04-30 |
| HFM/19-09 | Sleep and performance optimization in continuous operations: how to support self-management of performance in the SFG? | RMA | HFM | Advanced Military Health | 2020-03-01 | 2024-04-30 |
| MSP/19-01 | Propagation of military sound | RMA | MSP | Protection of personnel, systems and infrastructure | 2020-07-01 | 2024-04-30 |
| MSP/19-06 | Behavior of laminated glass under the combined effect of fragment and blast impact: the development of a standardized test setup | RMA | MSP | Protection of personnel, systems and infrastructure | 2020-05-01 | 2024-04-30 |
| MSP/20-01 | Sea Dumped Ammunition: scientifically based threat, impact and risk analysis | RMA | MSP | Protection of personnel, systems and infrastructure | 2020-05-01 | 2024-04-30 |
| DAP/20-02 | Artificial intelligence for persistent surveillance | RMA | DAP | Sensor Data Processing and Sensor Fusion | 2020-07-01 | 2024-06-30 |
| DAP/20-06 | Estimation of magnetic signatures of sea-mines in an operational context | RMA | DAP | Sensor Data Processing and Sensor Fusion | 2020-07-01 | 2024-06-30 |
| DAP/19-03 | SOCMINTEX | RMA | DAP | Cybersecurity | 2020-08-01 | 2024-07-31 |
| MSP/20-05 | Prevent, Protect and recovery from Incident or Accident by radiological Detection (P²RIARAD) | DLD | MSP | Protection of personnel, systems and infrastructure | 2020-08-01 | 2024-07-31 |
| HFM/20-03 | Does the Use of (Semi) Autonomous Weapons Influence military ethics? A multi-disciplinary research on responsibility. | RMA | HFM | Human Systems and Behaviour | 2020-09-01 | 2024-08-31 |
| HFM/20-07 | Model for Adaptive Command in Extreme Contexts | RMA | HFM | Human Systems and Behaviour | 2020-09-01 | 2024-08-31 |
| HFM/20-11 | RICIn Detection, Identification and Verification of the Biological Activity | DLD | HFM | Advanced Military Health | 2020-06-01 | 2024-08-31 |
| MSP/20-02 | Near-Field pollutant dispersion due to explosions | RMA | MSP | Protection of personnel, systems and infrastructure | 2020-09-01 | 2024-08-31 |
| MSP/20-03 | Automated take-off and landing of unmanned vehicles from Belgian Navy vessels | RMA | MSP | Intelligent autonomous systems and platforms | 2020-09-01 | 2024-08-31 |
| MSP/20-04 | CBRN dispersion and response modeling in the cloud | RMA | MSP | Protection of personnel, systems and infrastructure | 2020-09-01 | 2024-08-31 |
| DAP/21-01 | Long Range Communications and Higher Data Rates using Wideband HF | RMA | DAP | Communications | 2021-10-01 | 2024-09-30 |
| DAP/20-04 | Julia-based Interoperable Framework for Simulation and Optimisation (JIFSO) | RMA | DAP | Big Data | 2020-09-01 | 2024-12-31 |
| DAP/21-11 | Automatic, small-scale sea-floor characterization from high-resolution sonar data | RMA | DAP | Sensor Data Processing and Sensor Fusion | 2021-01-01 | 2024-12-31 |
| HFM/20-02 | In Real Life: Measuring the Cognitive Load of the Network-Enabled Soldier | RMA | HFM | Human Systems and Behaviour | 2020-09-20 | 2024-12-31 |
| HFM/21-10 | SynPhage (Synthetic Phage) | MHRA | HFM | Advanced Military Health | 2021-01-01 | 2024-12-31 |
| MSP/21-01 | Development of biofidelic surrogates for Kinetic Energy non-lethal weapons (KENLW) and behind armour blunt trauma (BABT) | RMA | MSP | Novel weapon systems | 2021-01-01 | 2024-12-31 |
| MSP/21-03 | Development of an Improved Explosive Device secondary debris Simulating Projectile (ISP) | RMA | MSP | Protection of personnel, systems and infrastructure | 2021-01-01 | 2024-12-31 |
| MSP/21-07 | Estimating breakthrough times of gas filters under more realistic operational circumstances | DLD | MSP | Novel weapon systems | 2021-01-01 | 2024-12-31 |
| MSP/21-08 | Novel energetic materials based on nanoporous carbonaceous materials | RMA | MSP | Novel weapon systems | 2021-01-01 | 2024-12-31 |
| DAP/21-09 | Laser irradiation of Imaging Devices: Effects and Protection (LaserID) | RMA | DAP | Novel weapon systems | 2021-04-01 | 2025-03-31 |
| HFM/21-03 | Development of a Next Generation Sequencing pipeline applicable to the characterisation of plasmid-mediated pathogenicity of Biological Warfare Agents, as well as clinical and potentially harmful environmental agents | DLD | HFM | Advanced Military Health | 2021-05-01 | 2025-05-01 |
| MSP/21-04 | Influence of actual impact conditions versus testing conditions on the efficiency of torso body armour systems | RMA | MSP | Protection of personnel, systems and infrastructure | 2021-05-01 | 2025-05-01 |
| HFM/21-12 | SIMEDIS Battlefield | RMA | HFM | Advanced Military Health | 2021-06-01 | 2025-05-31 |
| DAP/21-04 | Automated Artificial Intelligence-based large scale image analysis | RMA | DAP | Sensor Data Processing and Sensor Fusion | 2021-07-01 | 2025-06-30 |
| DAP/21-07 | Laser Communication and Navigation for UAS in an RF-Denied Environment | RMA | DAP | Novel weapon systems | 2021-07-01 | 2025-06-30 |
| DAP/21-05 | Public Regulated Service For Defense (PRS4Def): the project will focus on the definition of testing tools and methodologies in order to support the assessment of PRS added value for defence applications) | RMA | DAP | Space Technologies | 2021-09-01 | 2025-08-31 |
| DAP/21-06 | Multi-UAV Aided Tactical Networks | RMA | DAP | Intelligent autonomous systems and platforms | 2021-09-01 | 2025-08-31 |
| DAP/21-08 | The spectral race in sensor technology and in camouflage developments: Who will win? | RMA | DAP | Sensor Data Processing and Sensor Fusion | 2021-09-01 | 2025-08-31 |
| DAP/21-10 | HEL for a safe hard kill: fact or myth? | RMA | DAP | Novel weapon systems | 2021-09-01 | 2025-08-31 |
| HFM/21-02 | Optimization of onsite isothermal screening and 3rd generation shotgun metagenomic methods and their application for the identification of viral and bacterial vector-borne diseases on field trapped vectors | DLD | HFM | Advanced Military Health | 2021-09-01 | 2025-08-31 |
| HFM/21-04 | Synergy, real-time optimization of the design of personalized phage cocktail ecology | MHRA | HFM | Advanced Military Health | 2021-09-01 | 2025-08-31 |
| HFM/21-05 | Leaving is the Only Way Out? Voluntary Attrition within the Belgian Armed Forces: A Multimethod Analysis. | RMA | HFM | Human Systems and Behaviour | 2021-09-01 | 2025-08-31 |
| HFM/21-09 | Non-destructive decontamination and new ways of dealing with CBRN contaminated forensic evidence in a laboratory | DLD | HFM | Protection of personnel, systems and infrastructure | 2021-09-01 | 2025-08-31 |
| MSP/21-02 | Numerics & Experiments on Low-Speed High-Altitude Wings (NELSHAW) | RMA | MSP | Intelligent autonomous Systems & Platforms | 2021-09-01 | 2025-08-31 |
| HFM/21-06 | GEMINIDS: Development of an Adaptive Gas Exchange Model for Decompression Sickness Mitigation in Military Diving and High-Altitude Flying Operations | MHRA | HFM | Advanced Military Health | 2021-10-01 | 2025-09-30 |
| MSP/21-06 | New Generation Green Energy Systems : Development and Characterization of Heat and Electricity Production in a BE Defense Base and in a Compound abroad | RMA | MSP | Sustainable new generation energy systems | 2021-10-01 | 2025-10-01 |
| DAP/21-02 | Improving TEMPEST Security of Military and Commercial Video Display Units by Developing a Risk Assessment Tool and Developing Effective Countermeasures on the Software- and the Hardware- Level | RMA | DAP | Cybersecurity | 2021-11-01 | 2025-11-01 |