The new digital & defense nexus
10 May 2026
Digital technologies and defence have become inseparable, and Europe is under pressure to act on that reality faster than it has so far managed. At EIF, we organised a lunch debate bringing together European Commission officials, NATO representatives and telecommunications industry leaders to examine how dual-use innovation can be scaled into genuine defence capabilities. Three questions ran through the discussion: how to accelerate the integration of civilian technologies into defence, how to make the funding architecture work for new entrants as well as established players, and how to structure public-private cooperation for an era in which critical infrastructure is almost entirely owned and operated by the private sector.
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