Luis’s call could not be clearer: if Europe wants true strategic autonomy, we must scale our defence-industrial base, especially in advanced AI, at Silicon-Valley speed, not procurement-cycle speed.
The market tail-winds are real
Budget escalation. EU defence outlays jumped more than 30 % in three years, reaching an estimated €326 billion in 2024.
New capital. Last week member states approved SAFE, a €150 billion loan facility with a 65 % “buy-European” clause to turbo-charge joint programmes.
Demand for collaboration. The fresh European Defence Industrial Strategy targets 40 % collaborative procurement by 2030 and prioritises disruptive tech such as AI, quantum and next-gen C2.
Where Binomial fits
At Binomial C&D we have spent more than a decade turning frontier AI research into operational advantage for security and defence stakeholders. Our hallmarks:
Complex-reasoning AI architectures for multi-domain operations: from sensor fusion to cognitive electronic warfare.
Design-to-deployment consulting that bridges NATO TRL gaps for ministries, primes and dual-use scale-ups alike.
WarMind Labs, the first private European lab dedicated to Defence-AI experimentation
Turning strategy into startups
Luis is right: money is not the bottleneck. Execution is. Europe will miss this window if we keep working in silos. That is why Binomial is:
Building consortia that pair deep-tech SMEs with tier-one primes for upcoming EDF, SAFE and EDIRPA calls.
Training cross-functional teams in AI safety, MLOps and mission-critical UX so innovations survive the valley-of-death between demo and deployment.
Open-sourcing insight through events like this webinar to ensure even the smallest company can plug into the ecosystem.
Call to action
Whether you are a start-up with a novel inference engine, a prime looking for AI differentiation, or an investor seeking resilient growth, now is the moment to engage. Let’s turn Europe’s unprecedented funding cycle into an unprecedented wave of truly European capability.
Connect with us at binomialcd.com or drop me a DM to explore how we can co-create the next generation of defence-tech solutions. The opportunity is vast, but so is the urgency.
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