AI, Quantum, and EW: Mapping the New Technological Core of the Defence Economy
20 pages · PDF · 10 June 2025 · Licensed single-user copy, watermarked to the buyer
Strategic Artificial Intelligence, Big Data & Analytics Quantum Computing, Sensing & Communications Electronic Warfare & Spectrum Dominance
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About this report
Across Europe and the transatlantic alliance, artificial intelligence (AI), quantum technologies, and electronic warfare (EW) have become central to defence strategies. NATO Allies have explicitly prioritized these technologies – alongside fields like autonomy, biotechnology, and space – for their transformative impact on security and warfare.
NATO’s first Artificial Intelligence Strategy (initially adopted in 2021 and revised in 2024) seeks to accelerate the safe and responsible use of AI within the Alliance. It emphasizes combining AI with other disruptive technologies and improving interoperability of AI systems across NATO forces.
Key questions this report answers
- How are AI, quantum technologies and electronic warfare becoming the technological core of the defence economy?
- How do NATO's AI Strategy and prioritisation of disruptive technologies shape industrial dynamics?
- What financial, investment and regulatory frameworks govern these technology families?
- What evolutionary scenarios and operational recommendations follow for actors in the field?
Inside this report
- Industrial and Technological Dynamics
- Financial and Investment Implications
- Regulatory and Legal Framework
- Evolutionary Scenarios and Operational Recommendations
Who it's for
Strategy, corporate-development and investment teams that need an ecosystem-level view — budgets, industrial capacity and technology landscapes — before committing capital or capacity.
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DFM reports are built from primary and official sources — TED procurement notices, CORDIS and the EU Funding & Tenders Portal, EIB operations, the NATO Innovation Fund portfolio, SIPRI data, official budget documents and company disclosures — read together with the underlying legal texts. Sources are cited in the document; it reflects them as of its publication date (10 June 2025). You receive a 20-page PDF, watermarked to you on every page, delivered on the confirmation page and by e-mail immediately after checkout (personal link valid 72 hours, up to 5 downloads). Guest checkout, single-user licence — Terms of Sale.
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