Indra is leading the European R&D project that will revolutionise military avionics

Indra is coordinating the NG MIMA (Next Generation Military Integrated Modular Avionics) project, one of Europe's most important R&D initiatives to promote a new generation of modular avionics ready to meet the requirements of the military aerial platforms of the future. 

Promoted by the European Commission through the European Defence Fund, this project is made up of 21 large companies, research centres and universities from all over the continent and has an estimated budget of 30 million euros. 

Its objective is to completely revolutionise military avionics, identifying new high-level architectural principles for the most demanding operations and security, studying key technologies capable of supporting the high level of data exchange and processing derived from the demands of new operational environments. 

The consortium led by Indra will work on the design of a scalable reference architecture ready to be used in different European military platforms. 

This will provide manned and unmanned military platforms with unprecedented flexibility, facilitating their evolution and adaptation to new demands throughout their life cycle. They will have avionics systems with open, modular and interoperable architectures that will become the long-term standard for the entire industry and armies. 

NG MIMA now faces the challenge of developing an architecture flexible enough to integrate technologies that do not yet exist, complying, among other things, with extremely demanding security and cybersecurity requirements. The continent's largest companies and best researchers will work on it for three years, applying all their knowledge of computing, cloud and cybersecurity systems. 

All this work is key to improving the allied armies' ability to interoperate and carry out multidomain operations involving simultaneous actions in the land, sea, air, space and cyber domains. Developing this modular architecture will also help Europe to invest more intelligently and efficiently in defence and, therefore, acquire greater technological and strategic sovereignty.