COURAGEOUS aims to facilitate the development of a common baseline understanding amongst Member State authorities concerning the effectiveness of different technical systems intended for use in specifically the detection, tracking and identification of non-cooperative drones. In doing so, the project aims to support decision-making at national level regarding the development, procurement and/or operational deployment of different commercially available C-UAS systems, most of which are very expensive. COURAGEOUS will focus on meeting the needs of civilian law enforcement/security stakeholders with C-UAS responsibilities in Europe. 

COURAGEOUS will focus its efforts on five technical domains: 

1. The development of a set of relevant standard scenarios that will describe different situations in which protection from non-cooperative UAS may be necessary. Each standard scenario will be accompanied by a risk analysis, giving security stakeholders the capability to rapidly identify UAS-related risks based on standard scenarios.
2. The development of quantifiable and technology-agnostic functional and performance requirements and metrics for different detection-tracking-identification systems.
3. The development of a standardised C-UAS systems testing methodology that will be used for testing both individual sensors & integrated systems.
4. The execution of four different test campaigns across Europe, where commercially available C-UAS systems will be evaluated following the developed test methods, in order to validate the methodology and to provide a baseline dataset.
5. Dissemination of test results and lessons learned with relevant competent authorities in different sectors in all Member States in a responsible and secure manner. This includes the production of dissemination products supporting DG HOME’s communications efforts, such as factsheets and the dissemination at a global scale through the network provided by INTERPOL, as a responsible partner for this task.