For all the modern innovation in venture capital, history often repeats itself. The First and Second World Wars led to unprecedented public investment in industrial capability and advanced manufacturing, which later found widespread commercial application. Similarly, the Cold War drove sustained investment in semiconductors, satellite communications, and GPS. There is a ...
UK companies can play a bigger role in strengthening the nation’s critical supply chains, but barriers including procurement complexity, limited visibility of opportunities and buyer engagement prevent many from doing more, finds survey. The findings from the new UK Supply Report by the Critical Supply Group (CSG) show that almost three-quarters ...
The NATO Alliance has launched a new ‘Call to Action’ to global financial institutions, as they meet for the first day of the NATO Summit Defence Industry Forum in Turkey. The initiative – announced at the start of this week’s Summit in Ankara – calls for an increase in private ...
Landmark legislation targeting hostile state activity on UK soil has received Royal Assent, handing the Home Secretary counter-terrorism style powers to designate foreign state proxies and closing a gap that has left agencies struggling to act against deniable, state-linked threats. The National Security (State Threats) Bill became law on 8 July, ...
July 30, 2026
Land - Agon Launches with $30 Million Seed Investment to Build Europe's Sovereign Defence AI Infrastructure
A European defence AI start-up has launched with one of the largest early-stage defence technology seed rounds in Europe this
July 30, 2026
Homeland - Europe is building a military on chips it cannot make
In 1950 Jean Monnet persuaded Europe that pooling coal and steel would make another Franco-German war almost impossible. The idea
