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NATO’s Tech Scouts Are Fortifying Europe for a World With Donald Trump
The new NATO Innovation Fund started as a way to combat flagging US interest. Now, its staff are scouring Europe to find the companies that could give the alliance the edge in the face of war.
“They obviously weighed up the pros and cons and just felt that this doesn’t make sense for the US, given their strong heritage in venture capital,” says Rob Murray, the former British army officer who was an early proponent of the NIF in Trump’s first term. “We tend to think we should delegate our geopolitics to the United States,” Macron said at a meeting of European leaders in Budapest the day after Trump’s election, “and our technological innovation to American hyperscalers.” For Europe to be in a position to “step up”, the region needs to find answers to both those problems. In theory, the NIF will become a funding model that’s self-sustaining for NATO innovation priorities, says Michael C. Horowitz, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania who worked on emerging capabilities in the US Department of Defense until earlier this year.
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