Sovereign Compute for European Defence
Cloud, edge infrastructure and AI compute as the new control layer of strategic autonomy
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Strategic Artificial Intelligence, Big Data & Analytics Cloud & Edge Infrastructure
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About this report
Europe’s defence autonomy can no longer be assessed only through platforms, budgets, procurement cycles and industrial capacity. Modern military power increasingly depends on the computational layer through which operational data, AI models, command systems, logistics networks, simulation environments and edge applications are stored, trained, processed and deployed.
This creates a structural problem for European defence: a continent can fund new capabilities and expand defence production, yet remain dependent if the cloud, compute and edge infrastructure beneath those capabilities is governed by non-European legal regimes, non-European operational control, non-European hardware supply…
Key questions this report answers
- Why does modern military power increasingly depend on the computational layer for operational data, AI models, command systems, logistics, simulation and edge applications?
- What strategic and policy baseline and defence-architecture/compliance baseline govern sovereign compute for European defence?
- What market structure and compute stack, and which non-European dependencies (legal regimes, operational control, hardware supply), create the structural problem?
- What capital-market and operational implications follow from this compute dependency?
Inside this report
- Executive summary
- Abstract
- Strategic and policy baseline
- Defence architecture and compliance baseline
- Market structure and compute stack
- Capital market and operational implications
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 (22 May 2026). 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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