Defense Shift: from Innovation to Industrial Scale

At the MSC Munich Security Conference panel “Factories First: who builds Europe’s capability at scale and how startups win,” the message was clear. Europe cannot outsource its security. The challenge is not innovation but industrial architecture. Real capability equals production capacity, procurement efficiency, and scaled delivery. This is about procurement redesign for alliance-scale competition, combining startup speed with prime infrastructure. DefenseTech is now industrial strategy and economic sovereignty for Europe.