The Directorate-General for Defence Industry and Space (DEFIS) leads the European Commission's activities in the Defence Industry and Space sector.

In the area of Defence Industry, DEFIS is in charge of upholding the competitiveness and innovation of the European Defence industry by ensuring the evolution of an able European defence technological and industrial base.

The European Defence Fund 2023 Work Programme will provide €1.2 billion for defence RD&I through its annual calls for proposals.

The 2023 calls are expected to be opened for submission on 15 June with a deadline for submission of 22 November 2023, and are now published on the EU Funding & Tenders Portal page dedicated to the EDF Programme.

In the area of Space DG DEFIS is in charge of implementing the EU Space programme consisting of the European Earth Observation Programme (Copernicus), the European Global Navigation Satellite System (Galileo) and the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS).