DEFENCE STANDARDIZATION ADVICE P.C. (DEFSTAND) has been recently awarded by the NATO Accelerating Interoperability and Standardization (AIS) Fund, a new project entitled “Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USV) Standardization: Current Status and Future Outlook“.
The project’s goal is to accelerate USV standardization by identifying standardization gaps and providing guidelines and recommendations to NATO for steering related standardization activities.
Within the project, relevant NATO and non-NATO standards and certification frameworks will be analyzed and recommendations for collaboration with external Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs) and the industry will be provided.
Besides DEFSTAND, the project consortium includes INTRACOM DEFENSE S.A. (IDE) which is the Implementing Agent (primary contractor) of the project and ASTM International.
IDE is a Defense Systems Company in Greece, with an outstanding record of participation in domestic programs and exports to quality-driven international customers while ASTM International is a U.S. domiciled non-for-profit SDO recognized as a global leader in the development and delivery of voluntary consensus standards.
In this context, IDE and DEFSTAND representatives participated in the NATO Joint Capability Group on Maritime Unmanned Systems (JCGMUS) meeting, held during 11-13 November 2025 in Madrid, Spain, where they presented the project’s implementation plan and received valuable feedback from the meeting participants.