NATO funds international research to protect drones against cyberattacks

Researchers at the University of Wollongong (UOW) in Australia have secured a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) research grant to strengthen the security of intelligent multi-drone systems operating in high-risk environments.

The $1.8 million international collaboration addresses growing concerns about the vulnerability of automated, coordinated drones used for defense operations, emergency and disaster response, environmental monitoring and critical infrastructure protection. 

The multi-year project, ‘Robustness against Adversarial Attacks for Intelligent Multi Drone Agents (RAID),” is funded through NATO’s Science for Peace and Security Program and brings together leading cryptography, cybersecurity, robotics, autonomous systems and artificial intelligence experts.

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