On 22 December, the European Commission announced the signature, the day before, of the first grant agreement funded by the EU for a research project into defence, in the framework of the European Defence Fund (EDF).
Under the move, the EU has granted €1 million to the project PYTHIA, which aims to identify key trends in the fast-evolving world of innovative defence technologies. “The technology foresight project will use big data analysis to examine large volumes of technological...