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Capabilities priorities
Capabilities priorities
EUNAVFOR The Capability Development Plan gives an auditable picture of the ability of the EU to undertake all of the Defence tasks required for CSDP over the short, medium and longer term.
The inputs having been from the Headline Goal Progress Catalogue, Lessons Identified from CSDP operations, Member States programmes to address capability improvement and finally from a focused long term analysis (2025+).
The initial CDP was endorsed in July 2008 and the present updated CDP encompasses substantial additional input, in particular on short-term needs based on the Headline Goal Process and lessons from operations . The update led by the EDA, is basedon important contributions made by participating Member States, the EU Military Committee and the European External Action Service. The CDP is now firmly established as a tool for informing Member States’ capability development. It remains the Agency’s ‘overall strategic tool’, driving Research & Technology investment, Armaments collaborations and Defence Industry & Market activities.
The update has also enabled the reshaping of the initial tranche of 12 prioritised actions agreed on in 2008. The Steering Board has approved, in March 2011, a set of prioritised actions that will be focal points for the Agency’s activities in the years to come.
They are presented in three groups as follows:
CDP Top 10 Priorities
Counter Improvised Explosive Device (C-IED); Medical Support; Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance; Increased Availability of Helicopters; Cyber Defence; Multinational Logistic Support; CSDP Information Exchange; Strategic and Tactical Airlift Management; Fuel and Energy; Mobility Assurance.
Maturing/Mature Actions
Maritime Mine Counter-Measures; Chemical Biological Radiological and Nuclear defence; Counter-Man Portable Air Detection Systems; Military Human Intelligence.
Core Drivers/Environments
Comprehensive Approach; Network Enabled Capabilities; Radio Spectrum Management for EU Capabilities; Space; Single European Sky.
The above capability focus has allowed a restructuring and focusing of the Agency’s work programme in order to deliver an integrated approach to delivering the needs of the frontline and shaping the Defence Technological and Industrial Base to support those needs.
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