ARKANE among the 23 first winners of the call for projects ‘Pioneers of AI’ — France 2030

A strategic issue: securing PNT signals

Positioning, navigation and synchronization (PNT) signals are now essential for the operation of many critical infrastructures: transport, energy, telecommunications, autonomous systems.

However, these signals are exposed to increasing threats:

• Jamming
• Spoofing
• Desynchronization

In an increasingly tense geopolitical and cyber context, the ability to guarantee the integrity, authenticity and continuity of service of PNT signals becomes a challenge for European sovereignty.

The P2IA project: an embedded AI at the service of cyber-resilience

To meet this challenge, ARKANE is developing P2IA, an embedded artificial intelligence solution capable of:

• Detect attacks in real time
• Identify their nature
• Neutralize their effects
• Maintain service continuity

Our approach is based on frugal and explainable AI, designed to be directly integrated into embedded systems, with strong constraints on performance, latency, and energy consumption.

A differentiating technological approach

1. AI hybridization / signal processing
ARKANE combines the robustness of classical signal processing methods with the adaptive power of artificial intelligence.

This hybridization allows:

• Better resilience against unknown attacks
• A dynamic adaptability to contested environments
• Increased explainability of algorithmic decisions

2. Generative AI attack scenario generation
We integrate generative AI mechanisms to automatically produce complex and realistic attack scenarios.

Objective:
Continuously train, test and reinforce our defense systems against evolving and increasingly sophisticated threats.

3. A sovereign and certifiable firmware architecture

From phase 1 of the project, P2IA’s architecture is designed to meet European regulatory requirements:

• Compliance with the AI Act (high-risk AI systems—critical infrastructures)
• Alignment with NIS2 and REC frames
• Taking into account the recommendations of ANSSI

This “compliance by design” approach guarantees a certification path compatible with the requirements of European institutional and industrial actors.

A strategic recognition

The selection of ARKANE among the first winners of ‘Pioneers of AI’ is a strong recognition:

• From our vision of a sovereign AI
• Of our commitment to an explainable AI
• From our positioning on the challenges of cyber-resilience of critical infrastructures

We thank our institutional partners as well as all of our teams, whose expertise in signal processing, embedded AI and secure architectures makes this ambition possible!