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NATO’s Role in Advancing Emerging Technologies: DIANA and the NATO Innovation Fund
What is the central argument of “NATO’s Role in Advancing Emerging Technologies”, and why does it matter for European defence and dual-use markets?
NATO’s Role in Advancing Emerging Technologies: DIANA and the NATO Innovation Fund: NATO has increasingly recognized. Defence-finance analysis; 7-page sourced…
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Original DFM publication · DFM Analysis report · 2025-06-15
NATO has increasingly recognized that maintaining its strategic edge in an era of great‐power competition requires harnessing advances in emerging and disruptive technologies. Alliance leaders and analysts emphasize that technologies such as artificial intelligence, autonomy, quantum computing and biotechnology promise to reshape warfare and power projection.
In response, NATO has set up new innovation instruments to bring civilian innovation into the defence sphere. One senior NATO official described these efforts as creating an “innovation engine” to keep pace with adversaries’ technological advances.
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What is NATO’s Role in Advancing Emerging Technologies: DIANA and the NATO Innovation Fund?
In response, NATO has set up new innovation instruments to bring civilian innovation into the defence sphere.
Why does NATO’s Role in Advancing Emerging Technologies: DIANA and the NATO Innovation Fund matter for European defence?
One senior NATO official described these efforts as creating an “innovation engine” to keep pace with adversaries’ technological advances.
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