Strategies overview

The Agency conducts its activities within a strategic framework. It consists of four strategies, endorsed by EDA Steering Board.

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  • The Capability Development Plan (CDP) provides to Member States an auditable picture and assessment of capability trends and requirements, over the short, medium and long term, in order to inform national decisions on defence investments; this includes the identification of areas for cooperation for capability improvement, and the proposal concerning options for collective solutions. The CDP is the overall strategic tool, the ‘driver’ for R&T investment, for armaments cooperation and for the defence industries.
  • The European Defence Research & Technology (EDRT) strategy aims at enhancing more effective R&T in support of military capabilities. The EDRT strategy defines the ‘Ends’ (in which key technologies to invest), the ‘Means’ (how to do this) and the ‘Ways’ to implement the ends and means through roadmaps and action plans.
  • The European Armaments Cooperation (EAC) strategy is focussed on promoting and enhancing more effective European armaments co-operation in support of CSDP capability needs. The EAC strategy defines how to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of European armaments programmes by a series of actions, applying lessons learned from past experiences through a ‘Guide to Armaments Co-operation Best Practice’.
  • The European Defence Technological and Industrial Base (EDTIB) strategy describes the future European defence industrial landscape, based on the three Cs: Capability-driven, Competent and Competitive. The future EDTIB has to be more integrated, less duplicative and more interdependent, with increased specialisation, for example by establishing industrial centres of excellence. It refers to action fields for which Governments will be responsible, such as consolidating demand and investment. Logically, the strategy links the work on realising the future EDTIB to the Agency’s activities on the European Defence Equipment Market. Special attention is paid to the importance of Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises with their typical flexibility and capacity to innovate.

These strategies provide for the destinations of EDA’s activities in the four functional areas and for the course to be followed. But they don’t produce capabilities by themselves. These have to be generated through concrete projects and activities.

EDA Portals

EDA's Annual Conference: Refocusing Defence: a European perspective on Defence cooperation in a time of financial challenge UPDATE - Second EDA Multinational Helicopter Exercise “AZOR 2010” Workshop - Technological Review and Assessment in the field of Naval Systems Energy Supply for EU Crisis Management – Lessons Learned and Opportunities Identified Consultation with Industry on Pooling & Sharing European High Level Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Conference Industry Day on Route Clearance Press briefing (Brussels) - IT CALL 2011 Countering Improvised Explosives Devices (CIED) Basic Search Course Conference on Through-Life Management 1st EDA Helicopters Tactics Symposium European Technology non-Dependence Conference Exercise Italian Call 2011 Tactical Air Transport symposium European Framework Cooperation (EFC) Workshop European Defence Conference 2011 EDA Steering Board in Ministers of Defence formation Steering Board in Ministers of Defence formation Press Day - ITALIAN CALL 11 Multinational Helicopter Exercise GREEN BLADE 12 Multinational Helicopter Exercise HOT BLADE 2012 2nd EDA Helicopter Tactics Symposium Workshop on "Exploring Safe design and operations for the European Unmanned Maritime Systems”

 
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