Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing and Ergonomics FKIE

Dr. Marc Adrat, the longstanding head of the Software Defined Radio research group has been recognized with the Wireless Innovation Forum’s (WInnF) 2021 President’s Award. With its award, the US-based forum honors Adrat’s activities on various committees and working groups within the WInnF.

How can autonomous ships be integrated into conventional maritime traffic? And which support can science offer traffic control centers in their efforts to monitor mixed shipping traffic in the future? These are the questions the LEAS project, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), is investigating.

The Centre of Excellence for Operations in Confined and Shallow Waters COE CSW in Kiel and the Fraunhofer FKIE have signed a memorandum of understanding to expand their collaboration on marine issues. The purpose of this agreement is to collaborate to develop and test forward-looking concepts in real-world environments.

Airbus Defence and Space, the German prime for the tri-national Future Combat Air System Program (FCAS), has contracted Fraunhofer FKIE and DMI Solutions to develop an Explainable AI (XAI) demonstrator. The project is realized jointly with the FCAS Expert Commission on the responsible use of new technologies.