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🧭 As #NATOSummit leaders seek effective ways to redouble internal cooperation and external deterrence today in Washington, CSR has tracked emerging risks along its various lines of efforts for which international collaboration is the best solution. ➡️ Read the latest from Christine Parthemore: https://lnkd.in/ekmUxKpj

Significant shifts in EU's Security and Defense strategy #SecurityTransformation; developments from European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen 1️⃣A pivot towards increasing spending on defense capabilities and capacity, marked by a €1.5 billion boost from EU Funds. 2️⃣Emphasis on reshaping the EU defense mindset to address the modern landscape of threats which requires a holistic approach. 3️⃣An open call for industry partnerships, particularly in innovation, which presents new business opportunities in technology and defense infrastructure and supply chain. This strategic redirection signals robust business prospects in defense-related innovation, investment, and collaborative initiatives. A pivotal moment for stakeholders to engage with the new EU defense blueprint. European Business Summits 📲 Further insights Vulcan Consulting #EUDefence #Innovation #SecurityPartnerships #euFunding #PublicAffairs

"We’re committed not to 'digital sovereignty' but 'digital solidarity.' Today, the department that I lead, the State Department, is unveiling the U.S. International Cyberspace and Digital Strategy, (https://lnkd.in/gWUkijJg). So what I’d like to do now is share with you five ways that we’re putting this into practice. First, we’re harnessing technology for the betterment not just of our people and our friends, but of all humanity. That’s why our second line of effort is about governance: shaping the rules of the road to ensure that foundational technologies sustain our democratic values and guard against harms. Of course, to write the rules of the road, the United States must compete across the globe in the technologies that will shape our digital and physical experience and, by extension, our geopolitical realities. And that’s the third line of our tech diplomacy. Competing effectively abroad will depend on our fourth line of diplomatic effort: building resilient and trusted technology ecosystems. ... To lessen that risk, the United States is forging tech partnerships that will make critical technology supply chains more resilient, more diverse, more secure. And that includes for critical minerals, which are essential to scaling up clean energy technologies. ... We want to strengthen and diversify critical mineral supply chains to meet the rising demand while, again, guarding against dangerous dependencies. Two years ago, the United States set up the Minerals Security Partnership, now joined by 14 countries and the European Union, which together represent more than half of global GDP. The MSP is working on nearly two dozen projects around the world across the supply chain, from mining, to extraction, to processing, to recycling, to recovery. ... Fifth, and finally, we’re adopting a 'small yard, high fence' approach to protect the most sensitive technologies. ... When it comes to technologies with clear connections to military capabilities and human rights abuses, we have to slow down our competitors’ efforts. We can’t tolerate technologies that the United States has developed being used against us or our friends, falling into the hands of bad actors, or helping advance the military capabilities of strategic competitors." Antony J. Blinken, U.S. Secretary of State, Technology and the Transformation of U.S. Foreign Policy, Keynote speech at the RSA Conference, Moscone Center, San Francisco, California, 6 May 2024, https://lnkd.in/dbg85_Fe David E. Sanger, A New Diplomatic Strategy Emerges as Artificial Intelligence Grows—The new U.S. approach to cyberthreats comes as early optimism about a “global internet” connecting the world has been shattered, 𝘕𝘦𝘸 𝘠𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴, 6 May 2024, https://lnkd.in/d3BWhGg5

The challenges we face around security don’t stop at borders. Neither can our solutions. Last weekend’s Munich Security Conference was one more example of the way global cooperation continues to happen amid global division. We launched a new report at the conference, “The future of European defense and security.” You can read it here: https://lnkd.in/ggUrBpuj It finds that leaders on the continent face a confluence of challenges. They must protect lives and livelihoods, while continuing to accelerate progress in areas such as education, technology, healthcare, and the net-zero transition. We offer three themes for European decision makers to focus on: - Talent: In the European defense and commercial aerospace industries, 30 to 35 percent of the manufacturing and engineering workforce are 50 years of age or older. What will it take to attract and retain the necessary number of employees with the right skills and passion for the industry? - Scale and pace: The armed forces of European countries operate a complex portfolio of defense equipment. What is the pathway to facilitate interoperability and increase the potential to pool training and support resources, while achieving greater economies of scale through larger programs? - Innovation: Venture capital investment in defense technologies more than doubled between 2019 ($4.2 billion) and 2022 ($11.0 billion). But there is often a mismatch between the private capital funding cycle and defense budgets. How can even more incentives be created for defense innovation? Meeting this moment is partly about investment. According to McKinsey estimates—based on announced spending plans—defense budgets are expected to increase by a cumulative €700 billion to €800 billion between 2022 and 2028. But security is about more than that. Building resilient supply chains and infrastructure, securing global trade routes and food supply, and mitigating the effects of climate change on national security all require cooperation on a global scale. McKinsey is proud to be one of the institutional partners of the Munich Security Conference, one of the world’s leading forums catalyzing that kind of cooperation. Each year, we host our own independent events alongside the conference covering topics that include resilience, tech, innovation, and what it will take to build stronger global relationships. We’re excited to do more in this space—and act with courage and speed to continue strengthening European security through global connections.

In Australia, there is no unifying or shared definition of what sovereign capability is and is not. "We are the lowest of the OECD countries in terms of manufacturing output; we can’t defend ourselves from hostile powers in our sphere of influence; and we don’t have agency over our intellectual property, our cybersecurity or where our strategic data is stored and by whom.” The Hon Martin Hamilton-Smith  “Countries with comparable or even smaller populations and economies than Australia (Israel, Sweden, Norway, Turkey) have built highly capable defence and industrial capacity when faced with strategic threats and uncertainty. So, while Australia will always need to go to the US market and others for equipment and technological scale, weaning ourselves off just-in-time supply chains set-up by MNCs is essential for all critical commodities, whether civilian or military. We do have the capability and are hungry to execute. If the Government sets the conditions, we’ll deliver.”Adam Gilmour Pat Conroy Ed Husic MP Matt Thistlethwaite @NIOA Gilmour Space Technologies Macquarie Technology Group Austal #sovereigncapability #nationalsecurity

🚨 Border Security Technology Tops DHS R&D Priorities 🚨 Border security has become a critical focus for the #Biden Administration, shaping to be a major issue in the upcoming presidential election. This political priority directly influences where the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) directs its research and development (R&D) investments. For investors and innovators in national security technology, the implications are clear: follow the money. DHS’s R&D dollars are setting the stage for which companies will emerge as industry leaders in the near future. Read the full story here: https://lnkd.in/gciYFpXp Anduril Industries Brian Schimpf Skydio Adam Bry Enabled Intelligence, Inc Peter Kant #BorderSecurity #Innovation #InvestmentTrends #DHS #NationalSecurity #TechInvesting #USA #HomelandSecurity #DepartmentofHomenlandSecurity #security #researchanddevelopement #research #development #technology #tech #investors

📣 1 week until self-funded registration opens for #ACESS2024 on 1 May. This year's theme is "Strengthening Partnerships Toward Shared Prosperity". ACESS will feature panels, breakout discussions, electives, and a capstone exercise to synthesize concepts and ideas discussed throughout the week. Topics of focus might include: • Allies and Partners: "Building Trust to Build Security"  • Challenges and Opportunities in an Era of Global Complexity  • Irregular Threats to the Global Commons • Human Security in the Americas and Beyond . . . National Defense University

It was a pleasure talking to Tamsin Paternoster about societal resilience and preparedness against hybrid threats. My main message is that we need awareness and preparedness across our whole populations. Thanks for a great article!

📅 With 1 week until self-funded registration for #ACESS2024, we're revealing our theme for this year: "Strengthening Partnerships Toward Shared Prosperity"! Check out some topics of focus here.

A new report by the World Economic Forum (this one in collaboration with McKinsey) is out: „The Global Cooperation Barometer 2024“. As often with these things the results might at first be somewhat surprising (global overall cooperation only very slightly decreasing in the last years), though - having read it - in the new structure your thinking has now, much less surprising: Of the areas investigated…. Trade and Capital Innovation and Technology Climate and Natural Capital Health and Wellness Peace and Security four exhibit an (almost) steady rise in Global Cooperation. The one big exception being (and this unfortunately is the expected result): Peace and Security. Noteworthy: „A second development also lowered the score for global cooperation on peace and security - cyberspace became a new theater for conflicts“ Well worth the read.