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Italy’s Underwater Defence Ecosystem: Tier-2 and Tier-3 Companies Driving Naval and Subsea Capabilities
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How to Access the New €17.7 Billion EIB Defence-Financing Window: A Practical Guide for Dual-Use SMEs in Europe
Dec 3
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The Strategic Impact of Energetics Production Constraints
Nov 24
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Mapping European Enterprises and Technologies for Low-Cost Counter-UAS
Sep 13
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THE CAPITAL RE-ARMAMENT: European Defence-Native VCs & The Strategic Asset Map (2025 Outlook)
Dec 11
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NATO–EU Strategic Priorities
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NATO–EU Strategic Priority: Advanced Technologies & Emerging/Disruptive Technologies (EDTs)
Emerging and disruptive technologies (EDTs) have risen to the forefront of NATO, EU and national security strategies due to rapid shifts in the…
Nov 29
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NATO–EU Strategic Priority: Crisis Response, Stabilisation & Counter-Terrorism
The strategic priority of Crisis Response, Stabilisation and Counter-Terrorism has acquired renewed significance in the evolving Euro-Atlantic security…
Nov 29
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NATO–EU Strategic Priority: Defence Industrial Base & Munitions Readiness
The emergence of large-scale war in Europe has redefined the strategic centrality of industrial capacity as a determining factor of deterrence…
Nov 29
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NATO–EU Strategic Priority: Information Superiority & Counter-Hybrid Operations
Information superiority and counter-hybrid operations have emerged as decisive components of contemporary defence and security strategy within the…
Nov 29
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Operational Priorities
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Integrated Naval Task Groups (Operational Priorities)
Operational Rationale and Strategic Anchoring
Dec 17
Anti-Submarine Warfare Posture (Operational Priorities)
Operational Rationale and Strategic Anchoring
Dec 17
Undersea Infrastructure Security Plans (Operational Priorities)
Operational Rationale and Strategic Anchoring
Dec 16
Maritime Domain Awareness (Operational Priorities)
Operational Rationale and Strategic Anchoring
Dec 15
Defence Investment Regulation
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Academic Partnerships for Industrial Innovation and Workforce Reskilling under EDIP
Section 1 – Regulatory scope and legal basis.
Dec 23
Ukraine Support Instrument and Industrial Integration into European Defence Supply Chains
Section 1 – Regulatory scope and legal basis.
Dec 23
Emergency Innovation Measures and Rapid Substitution under EDIP
Regulatory scope and legal basis.
Dec 23
Priority-Rated Orders and Mandatory Production in Crisis under EDIP
Section 1 – Regulatory scope and legal basis.
Dec 23
European Security & Defence Industry
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The Baltic Defence Line 2025: Contract Intelligence and Capital Investment Analysis on Fortifications and Electronic Border Surveillance
The Baltic Defence Line represents a pivotal evolution in NATO’s eastern flank security, transitioning from a reactive posture to a proactive…
Dec 23
Quantum Frontline Industries: A New Model for Drone Production in Wartime
Drone warfare in Ukraine has matured from a question of tactical ingenuity into a question of industrial endurance.
Dec 17
Europe’s Counter-Drone Market: Industrial Scale-Up and Financing Frictions
Germany’s counter-drone exercises in November 2025, centred on Project Flytrap 4.5 at Truppenübungsplatz Putlos, provide a useful entry point for…
Dec 15
The Attritable Industrial Base: Financing the European Supply Chain for Mass
Europe’s defence industrial architecture is undergoing a radical transformation, the most significant since the Cold War.
Dec 5
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Public Expenditure & Procurement
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Polish Defence Market 2026: Budget Analysis, BGK Financing, and Contract Opportunities
Poland’s 2026 defence budget has reached an unprecedented scale, solidifying its position as the cornerstone of NATO’s Eastern Flank security…
Dec 23
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The New Transatlantic Defence Architecture: Integrating ReArm Europe, NATO DIANA & Industrial Finance
While capital markets digest the new sovereign guarantees, a parallel revolution just occurred in Brussels and Norfolk.
Dec 19
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The Rise of the ‘De-Risking State’: How Europe’s €200bn+ Defence Finance Shift is Unlocking New Asset Classes (2025–2030)
The official launch of Germany’s Deutschlandfonds yesterday serves as the definitive signal of a structural break in European defence finance.
Dec 19
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EU Repurposes Civil Funds for Defence: Horizon Europe, EIB, and the ReArm Europe Plan
Since 2022, security has become a decisive factor in EU industrial policy and in the way public money is used to support innovation and production.
Dec 17
Capital Markets & Investment Flows
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Private Credit Pivot: How Sienna Hephaistos and the EIF Are Solving the Defence SME Liquidity Gap (2025–2026)
While sovereign guarantees and innovation grants reshape the macro landscape, a critical bottleneck remains on the factory floor: liquidity.
Dec 19
Mapping Defence-Oriented Private Credit Instruments in Europe and Allied Markets
Introduction: Europe’s abrupt shift towards rearmament after 2022 has unleashed a surge in defence procurement that is testing the limits of traditional…
Dec 15
THE CAPITAL RE-ARMAMENT: Banking, Public Finance and Private Credit for Defence Industrial Readiness
In the decade preceding 2022, Europe’s defence financing was characterised by restraint, institutional fragmentation and a deliberate separation between…
Dec 12
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THE CAPITAL RE-ARMAMENT: European Defence-Native VCs & The Strategic Asset Map (2025 Outlook)
Europe’s defence-tech resurgence is being driven by a structural shift in how capital, industry and policy interact.
Dec 11
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Company Profiles Database
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SPX Radar Solutions: Strategic-Technological Analysis of Enterprise Control Systems
SPX Radar Solutions (formerly Enterprise Control Systems Ltd, UK) is a specialist defence technology firm focusing on secure RF communications and…
Dec 23
Italy’s Underwater Defence Ecosystem: Tier-2 and Tier-3 Companies Driving Naval and Subsea Capabilities
Italy’s underwater defence ecosystem is undergoing a structural transformation that goes far beyond shipbuilding and prime contractors.
Dec 23
Hipert: AI-Powered Autonomous Mobility Systems for Drones, Robots and Industrial Vehicles in Italy
Hipert S.r.l.
Dec 22
Spaider: Real-Time AI Engineering Simulation Platform for Rapid Predictive Modelling
In an era of intensifying strategic competition, Spaider (S.R.L.) offers a novel approach to European defence innovation.
Dec 22
EDTs & Dual-Use Technologies
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EU Sovereignty Finance: Mapping the STEP Platform’s €24 Billion Dual-Use Funding Infrastructure
In the aftermath of the EU’s 2025 defence readiness mandate, Europe has undertaken a substantive recalibration of its financial architecture…
Dec 21
Event Cameras for Counter-Drone: A Low-Latency Sensor Stack with Industrial and Financing Implications
Recent counter-drone exercises in Germany, including Project Flytrap 4.5, are useful not only as operational proof points but as market signals about…
Dec 15
WaveC2R Satellite Radar Retrieval for Severe Storm and Precipitation Monitoring
WaveC2R is a satellite-based radar retrieval method that reconstructs ground radar reflectivity fields using multi-source geostationary satellite…
Dec 2
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Understanding the Evolution of Pure-Play Quantum Computing Firms
This report provides an extensive assessment of the publicly listed companies operating in the quantum-computing sector, examining their evolution…
Nov 25
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Critical Infrastructure & Corporate Readiness
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Mapping Europe’s CRMA Strategic Projects as the New Bedrock of 2030 Defence Readiness
The strategic landscape of 2025 marks a definitive pivot in European industrial doctrine, as the European Union transitions from market-led procurement…
Dec 21
CRMA Strategy: Decoupling, Friend-Shoring, and European Resource Security
Europe is entering a new phase of industrial policy in which access to critical inputs is treated as a matter of security rather than market efficiency…
Dec 21
Digital Readiness as a Market Access Condition: Sovereign Cloud, Zero-Trust and Corporate Eligibility in Europe’s Defence Economy
Over the past few years, the regulatory and operational environment for European companies operating in defence, critical infrastructure and dual-use…
Dec 21
EIB Defence Financing: The New One-Stop Shop for Dual-Use SMEs
Europe’s financial landscape has shifted dramatically: the European Investment Bank (EIB) is no longer closed to the defence sector.
Dec 21
Special Reports - Premium
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Responsive Space Launch: The Industrial Architecture of European Space Resilience
European defence planning now treats space as a domain exposed to attrition, disruption and deliberate attack, rather than as a protected environment…
Dec 23
European Defence Photonics: Critical Supply Chain Bottlenecks in Optics & Infrared Sensors
The report addresses the growing strategic problem posed by the physical availability of military sensing and targeting components in Europe.
Dec 14
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Europe’s Midstream Gap in Critical Raw Materials
Europe’s exposure in critical raw materials is no longer primarily a question of access to resources, but of industrial capacity to refine, separate…
Dec 13
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Precision Machine Tools as Strategic Infrastructure in Europe’s Defence Re-Armament
Europe’s post-2022 security environment has made clear that deterrence is no longer determined solely by budgets, political intent, or weapons design…
Dec 13
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