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The European Competitiveness Fund and the Reframing of Europe’s Security-Relevant Space Financing
How does the European Competitiveness Fund reframe the financing of Europe's security-relevant space capabilities?
The European Competitiveness Fund and the Reframing of Europe’s Security-Relevant Space Financing: Europe has already built a dense. Defence-finance analysis…
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Original DFM publication · DFM Analysis report · 2026-04-09
Europe has already built a dense and operational space architecture with direct relevance to security and defence, spanning secure connectivity, Earth observation, navigation, and space surveillance. The issue is no longer the existence of these capabilities, but the logic through which they are financed, scaled, and governed.
Until now, the Union has largely approached defence-relevant space through programme-specific instruments and capability-oriented funding models, particularly in the form of topic-based calls and collaborative R&D consortia.
This analysis answers: How does the European Competitiveness Fund reframe the financing of Europe's security-relevant space capabilities? What is the empirical perimeter of dual-use space (secure connectivity, Earth observation, navigation, space surveillance) and EUSPA's current role? How does IRIS2 serve as a case study in infrastructure-scale dual-use space? What are the implications for governance, capital access and industrial hierarchy across the European space-industrial base?
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