Today, Deputy Minister of Defence for Industrial Cooperation Tomáš Kopečný officially launched the second season of the “We know what we have“ video series. While the pilot season introduced the Czech defence industrial capacities, the second season offers a close-up on the role the Czech research institutes and businesses play in the field of emerging defence and security technologies.
The Emerging and Disruptive technologies (EDT) represent one of the subjects the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation has intensively worked on during the past couple of years as part of reviewing its long-term defence strategy. The Czech Republic, and more precisely the Czech technology capacities, now have a unique window of opportunity to engage in those activities at an early stage and team up with a group of countries which will shape this agenda within NATO and the EU. Provided they are able to engage quickly and effectively, this opportunity offers both political and military benefits as well as the possibility to substantially help start-ups, businesses and research institutions to develop advanced technology and innovation based economy with a high added value.
The key goals of the second season of “We know what we have” are to support and popularize the domains of EDTs capabilities in the Czech Republic. In the coming weeks, the video series will be published on social media and the MoD website at army.cz. Just as in the first season, the host of the series is Deputy Minister of Defence for Industrial Cooperation Tomáš Kopečný. He will focus mostly on EDTs, in whose development the Czech Republic already plays an important role. Those specifically involve artificial intelligence, autonomous robotics, cyber security and space technology. The video was made with significant participation of a variety of government officials and business representatives.
NATO defines seven EDT categories
The NATO Alliance defines Emerging and Disruptive Technologies as new technologies and innovations having the potential in the next 20 years to significantly change the balance of power between state and non-state actors, while their potential insufficient development could pose a threat to NATO’s defence and deterrence capabilities. NATO divides the technologies with this revolutionary potential into 7 categories:
- Big data and advanced data analytics;
- Artificial intelligence;
- Autonomy;
- Quantum technology;
- Space technology;
- Hypersonic weapon systems;
- Biotechnology and other human enhancement technology
The popular “We Know What We Have” series returns for its second season
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