Defence Finance Monitor - Analysis

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Compulsory Screening, Twenty-seven Separate Decisions
Regulation (EU) 2026/1386 imposes a common defence filing floor from 17 January 2028; every clearance remains national.
Eligibility, Attribution and the Ukraine Support Loan
Access to the €90 billion loan is legally settled; the rule attributing contract value to Britain is not.
The Utility Study before the Indo-Pacific Build-Out
A $30 million NAVFAC study vehicle, $10,000 obligated, and the gates between assessment and executable Indo-Pacific infrastructure
The Test Gate Under a Rewritten Rulebook
Can the government keep custody of test evidence while the rules governing that custody are rewritten?
The Contracted Custody of Test Evidence
Can the government keep control of test evidence while the architecture that once compelled it is reduced?
SBIR Lineage and the Single-Award Ordering Vehicle
A $350 million Army ceiling shows how SBIR derivation converts capability designation into sole-source ordering capacity.
Two Licences and a Qualification Threshold
How Mandatory General Transfer Licences Could Reorganise Intra-EU Defence Supply Chains
Credentialling the Coalition Trauma Team
What a US–Canadian trauma team aboard USS Essex reveals about the barriers to multinational medical readiness
The High-Risk AI Classification Boundary
Where the EU’s forthcoming guidelines could pull defence-adjacent models, security systems and workforce tools back into scope
The Qualification Gap in UK–Taiwan Drone Cooperation
An association memorandum lowers coordination costs; certification, export control and ownership screening still govern who supplies what.
The Drone Component Sanctions Map
How the EU’s Twenty-First Package Redraws Lawful Supply Chains for Servomotors, Jammers, Launch Systems and Aerospace Materials
Europe's Missing Critical-Entity Register
The 17 July 2026 deadline has split the Union into a two-speed resilience regime.
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