After the pilot year of the accelerator program, Estonia's defense minister said it received "incredibly positive feedback" and would continue for another year, calling it an “important catalyst for innovation.”
Deeph Chana said that NATO is "very explicitly encouraging startups to have applications in the more traditional tactical military domain, as well as...in a sort of civil space, such that they have a diverse opportunity for revenue which we think builds more resilient, more investable companies in this space."
Knowing when to build on commercial systems and when to develop something new can be the difference between parity and information dominance.