News
| Date | Title | |
| 19 Mar. 2025 |  |
NATO Innovation Hackathon recognises advanced technologies for defence From 11 to 18 March 2025, NATO and the Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) brought together more than 60 companies from across the Alliance to compete in the first NATO Innovation Hackathon. The aim was to uncover new technological solutions to improve intelligence gathering and Unmanned Arial Vehicles (UAV) and electronic warfare system detection, including in degraded visual environments, such as at night. |
| 23 Jan. 2025 |  |
NATO Cloud Conference advances innovation and IT security across the Alliance On 21 -22 January, European industry leaders, IT service providers and NATO decision-makers gathered at the NATO Cloud Conference in Brussels to explore technologies and strategies for adopting secure cloud-based solutions for handling highly classified information. More than 25 companies participated in the event, presenting and exhibiting their existing and emerging solutions. |
| 11 Dec. 2024 |  |
Over 70 companies chosen to join NATO’s 2025 accelerator programme for defence innovation On Wednesday (11 December 2024), NATO’s Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) announced a new cohort of innovative companies that will join its accelerator programme in January 2025. |
| 14 Nov. 2024 |  |
NATO quantum experts gather in Copenhagen for annual conference On Wednesday (13 November 2024) the plenary meeting of NATO’s Transatlantic Quantum Community finished in Copenhagen. Led by Denmark, its inaugural chairing nation, the two-day conference brought together experts from industry, academia, funding bodies and government to work together, exchange and create a trusted quantum platform for the Alliance. |
| 17 Oct. 2024 |  | On Thursday (17 October, 2024), NATO launched a new initiative to foster secure data sharing at speed and scale to further enhance situational awareness and data-driven decision-making. |
| 14 Oct. 2024 |  |
NATO Chief Scientist launches Grants Programme to foster global security innovation NATO has officially launched its Chief Scientist Grants Programme, dedicated to fostering excellence in science and technology research. In total, 500,000 euros will support research projects focused on advancing science and contributing to global security. Researchers from NATO member countries are invited to apply, with grants ranging from 25,000 euros to 100,000 euros. These will support projects in areas such as deterrence and defence; diversity in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields; emerging and disruptive technologies; as well as Science and Technology (S&T) resilience and foresight. |
| 20 Sep. 2024 |  | NATO Allies gathered for the REPMUS 24 exercise in Portugal to test the ability of autonomous systems to operate together and to increase Alliance understanding of new threats in the maritime environment. They are joined by representatives of partner countries and organisations, NATO commands, research institutions and industry. REPMUS (Robotic Experimentation and Prototyping with Maritime Unmanned Systems) is the world’s leading experimentation exercise with maritime unmanned systems. REPMUS 24 is being held around the Troia Peninsula in Portugal from 9 to 27 September 2024. |
| 30 Aug. 2024 |  | On 29 and 30 August at City St George's, University of London, four teams from universities in the Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States, and Austria took part in the SAPIENCE drone competition, part of a project supported by the NATO Science for Peace and Security (SPS) Programme. |
| 30 Aug. 2024 | | On 29 and 30 August at City St George's, University of London, four teams from universities in the Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States, and Austria took part in the SAPIENCE drone competition, part of a project supported by the NATO Science for Peace and Security (SPS) Programme. |
| 10 Jul. 2024 |  | On Wednesday (10 July 2024), NATO released its revised artificial intelligence (AI) strategy, which aims to accelerate the use of AI technologies within NATO in a safe and responsible way. |