The Royal Navy has hybrid fleet to describe its crewed and uncrewed future. But when the Army starts generating maritime effects using uncrewed systems, something different is happening that hybrid does not quite capture. I want to propose a term for it.
A framework for thinking about what makes a deftech AI company genuinely hard to compete with over time. From compliance and accreditation infrastructure to knowledge architecture and cleared human capital, the most durable moats in defence AI are not the most obvious ones.
Silicon Valley spent a decade building an ideology about escaping state power. What it actually built was the most capable surveillance and military contracting infrastructure in history. This post asks what that contradiction means for the founders now being recruited into the defence tech wave.
Sovereign AI is not about where servers sit. It is about who controls the system when it matters. This post unpacks real sovereignty in defence procurement and why buying a postcode is not enough.