Canada and Norway agreed to deepen cooperation in artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies at the India AI Action Summit in February. The Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada said Saturday that the nations will also explore Norway’s addition to the Sovereign Technology Alliance to reduce Oslo’s technology dependencies across key sectors. Canada established the...
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Thales Unveils AI-Powered SkyDefender to Counter Drone & Hypersonic Missile Threats
Thales has introduced SkyDefender, a multi-layer, multi-domain integrated air and missile defense architecture designed to protect against aerial threats on land, at sea and in space. The aerospace and defense company said Wednesday that the system can rapidly respond to increasingly complex and unpredictable attacks, ranging from drone swarms to hypersonic missile threats. SkyDefender leverages...
Poland to Utilize $51.6B SAFE Funding for Artillery, Missile Defense, Drones Anti-UAS Acquisition
Poland intends to purchase weapons and munitions, anti-aircraft and anti-missile defense technology, unmanned aircraft systems and anti-UAS platforms, and other defense equipment using the $51.6 billion funding the nation will receive under the European Union’s Security Action for Europe, or SAFE, program, Breaking Defense reported Friday. The Sejm passed a bill in February that would...
Zscaler, Bharti Airtel Launch AI & Cyber Threat Research Center in India
Cloud security company Zscaler and Bharti Airtel, a telecommunications service provider in India, have launched the AI & Cyber Threat Research Center-India, a multi-stakeholder initiative aimed at strengthening India’s cyber resilience and advancing artificial intelligence-driven security across critical sectors. Register now to join the Potomac Officers Club’s 2026 Cyber Summit on May 21 and gain insight on evolving...
OpenAI, Microsoft Back UK Alignment Project to Strengthen Safe AI Development
OpenAI and Microsoft have pledged additional funding to the Alignment Project led by the United Kingdom’s AI Security Institute, bolstering an international effort to advance research aimed at ensuring artificial intelligence systems behave as intended as they become more capable and widely deployed. The announcement, made by U.K. Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy and AI...
Canada Teams Up With Germany to Drive Innovation, Boost Sovereign AI Capacities
Canada and Germany have agreed to cooperate on advancing secure, resilient and sovereign artificial intelligence globally. On Saturday, Evan Solomon, Canada’s minister of artificial intelligence and digital innovation, and Karsten Wildberger, Germany’s minister for digital transformation and government modernization, signed a joint declaration of intent on artificial intelligence at the Munich Security Conference. Innovators from...
Hensoldt, Helsing Partner to Develop AI-Enabled CA-1 Europa Autonomous Combat Aircraft
Hensoldt and Helsing have partnered to develop artificial intelligence-enabled combat air systems centered on Europe’s sovereign defense technology architecture. Helsing said Thursday that the joint effort aims to advance its CA-1 Europa, an AI-powered autonomous combat aircraft engineered to enhance Europe’s defense capability and technological leadership. How Does the Partnership Enhance the CA-1 Europa? The collaboration...
Red Hat Signs Enterprise Agreement With UK Ministry of Defence for Hybrid Cloud, AI Capabilities
organization’sRed Hat is providing cloud services to improve resilience and interoperability and enable artificial intelligence capabilities across the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence. The Raleigh, North Carolina-headquartered technology company said Wednesday that it signed an enterprise agreement with MOD for access to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat AI, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Red...
BidClever AI Introduces Intelligent Platform for Discovering Government Tenders Across US, EU
BidClever AI has officially launched an artificial intelligence-enabled platform that enables organizations to assess government tenders and pursue opportunities most relevant to their products and services. The company said Wednesday that the platform, called the Tender Relevancy Scorer, or TRS, provides customers with tenders based on relevance, replacing the normal process of manually searching and...
NATO Report Examines Meaningful Human Control in Military AI Systems
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s Science and Technology Organization released a new report on Jan. 14 that examines the role of meaningful human control, or MHC, in military artificial intelligence systems. Book your seat today for the Potomac Officers Club’s 2026 Artificial Intelligence Summit on March 18 to join the discussion on how AI has become...










