{"id":113267,"date":"2025-05-19T02:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T02:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/113267\/"},"modified":"2025-05-19T02:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T02:48:08","slug":"can-defense-become-europes-economic-growth-machine-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/113267\/","title":{"rendered":"Can defense become Europe\u2019s economic growth machine? \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lo\u00efc Mougeolle is a defense contractor whose ties to the military go back a generation. His father worked in nuclear deterrence for the French navy; he, in turn, worked nine years for a defense firm until co-founding his own defense company, Comand AI, in 2022, after Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will never be able to produce more than a strategic adversary like China,\u201d said Mougeolle, who is chief executive of the Paris-based Comand AI. \u201cWhat we need to do is to be able to conduct operations, 10 times, 100 times more efficiently than them. This is the starting point of Comand AI.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cThis is about spending more, spending better,\u201d NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said in a speech at the start of the year, acknowledging Washington\u2019s long-standing complaints about Europe not doing enough for its own security.\u00a0| Erdem Sahin\/EFE via EPA<\/p>\n

Mougeolle said he\u2019s developed an artificial intelligence-based platform that can parse orders, develop task sequences and analyze terrain, all with the aim of greatly accelerating military response times. With Comand AI, \u201cone staff officer can do the job of four,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

For now, Comand AI only focuses on the defense sector, but Mougeolle said the technology his company has developed has civil applications as well. For example, it could help fleets of delivery robots navigate terrain to reach their destinations. Or it could help deal with coordinated cyberattacks on private businesses.<\/p>\n

Off to the space races <\/p>\n

But entrusting new inventions that benefit everyday Europeans to innovative players like Comand AI, or European satellite and missile defense initiatives, is a gamble. While there is plenty of historical precedent, there is no certainty.<\/p>\n

\u201cDefense spending has been an important driver of technological advances in the U.S.,\u201d said Chris Miller, professor at Tufts University and author of Chip War: The Fight for the World\u2019s Most Critical Technology. \u201cThe Defense Department often funded basic research and prototyping that was then picked up by private firms and turned into world-changing civilian technologies, such as [micro]chips, GPS, or display screens.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lo\u00efc Mougeolle is a defense contractor whose ties to the military go back a generation. His father worked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[7703,28,1442,2825,473,2438,12495,32,2595,34,2000,299,5187,1105,769,39,1824,1195,806,6084,1302,1197,837,5167,33109,2992,2597,51249,2598,14791,51250,617,770,46,7061,11666,2343,48,525,413,3322,2824,53,3053,1201,657,15,12340],"class_list":{"0":"post-113267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-artillery","9":"tag-buildings","10":"tag-competition","11":"tag-debt","12":"tag-defense","13":"tag-department","14":"tag-development","15":"tag-donald-trump","16":"tag-drones","17":"tag-emmanuel-macron","18":"tag-eu","19":"tag-europe","20":"tag-european","21":"tag-far-right","22":"tag-finland","23":"tag-fuels","24":"tag-germany","25":"tag-growth","26":"tag-industry","27":"tag-infrastructure","28":"tag-innovation","29":"tag-investment","30":"tag-israel","31":"tag-manufacturing","32":"tag-mario-draghi","33":"tag-mark-rutte","34":"tag-military","35":"tag-military-research","36":"tag-missiles","37":"tag-munich-security-conference","38":"tag-patents","39":"tag-pensions","40":"tag-poland","41":"tag-policy","42":"tag-procurement","43":"tag-produce","44":"tag-research","45":"tag-rights","46":"tag-south-korea","47":"tag-space","48":"tag-startups","49":"tag-tanks","50":"tag-technology","51":"tag-the-netherlands","52":"tag-trade","53":"tag-ukraine","54":"tag-united-kingdom","55":"tag-welfare"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}