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London’s first defense tech hackathon brings Ukraine war closer to the city’s startups
Last week, the UK announced its largest ever military support package for Ukraine. The bill takes the U.K.'s total support for this financial year to £3
In fact, the London Defense Tech Hackathon was the first-ever event to bring together some of the UK’s brightest minds in technology, venture capital, and national security in a military setting. He explained that there were two main tracks of work: electronic warfare and drone or aerial systems: “There’s an acronym I learned from someone cleverer than me, which is that the future of defense technologies comes small, cheap and uncrewed.” Anduril recently moved ahead in a Pentagon program to develop unmanned fighter jets, and more broadly as we learned last year, venture capital is opening the gates for defense tech.
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