Challenges

Challenges

Technology challenges from Airbus, open to Welsh universities, SMEs, and startups.

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Past Challenges

Closed

Multi-Domain Operations Communication

To find a solution to interpreting, analysing and outputting complex operational sensor data to create and refresh in real time the common operational picture that can be communicated in a constrained bandwidth environment (low to medium) and with constrained computing power.

Closed

Low Observability: Simulated RF Detection on Large Geometries

To provide novel and efficient simulation methods for computing the reflection/scattering of electromagnetic waves from aircraft geometries.

Closed

Critical Systems, Critical Functions: Recovery from Cyber Attacks

To provide novel methods of system design to identify cyber-attacks in critical functions of aerospace platforms.

Closed

Thermal Management of Processors in Space

High-performance payloads and processors operating in the thermal extremes of the space environment.

Closed

Detection of AI-Generated Information

Research and development to detect information created by AI and identify potential misinformation in real time.

Closed

Identification and Replacement of PFAS

AI-led solutions for identifying the presence of, and alternatives for, PFAS in articles or mixtures used in the aerospace industry.

Closed

Generative AI

Novel applications of large language models, image generation, and related generative techniques aligned to Airbus Defence and Space requirements.

Closed

Software-Defined Cryptography

Advanced software-based cryptographic innovations for resource-constrained and safety-critical aerospace environments.

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