We Lead the Launch of Digital Technologies for Defence Working Group at the Spanish Digital Industry Consortium
Last week, María Luque Fernández, founder and CEO of Future Literacy and Vice President of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Commission at AMETIC, led the launch of Spain’s new Digital Technologies for Defence Working Group. The initiative brings together industry leaders, academic experts, and technology innovators to strengthen Europe’s digital defence capabilities and strategic autonomy.
In a geopolitical landscape marked by global rearmament, shifting alliances, and the accelerated digitalisation of conflict, defence is no longer only about adopting new technologies—it is about thinking with them. The working group responds to the European Commission’s mandate to advance a European Defence Union during the 2024–2029 cycle, aiming to integrate the industrial and technological ecosystem fully into the continent’s defensive capabilities.
The recent 2025 Iberian blackout underscored the fragility of critical infrastructures in the face of increasingly frequent and interconnected crises, from cyberattacks to systemic failures. As María emphasized, resilience must be structural, not reactive. Sustaining essential services—communications, energy, health, logistics—requires distributed, autonomous, and dual-use technologies designed to operate under pressure. From AI applied to tactical scenarios to advanced cybersecurity, quantum sensing, edge computing, and decentralized surveillance, the group is shaping a technologically sovereign and adaptive defence architecture for Spain and Europe.
“Sustaining what is essential—communications, energy, health, logistics—requires distributed, autonomous, and resilient capabilities. Our aim with this working group is to ensure that Spain and Europe are not just participants, but strategic leaders in shaping adaptive, interoperable, and technologically sovereign defence systems.”
— María Luque Fernández, Founder & CEO of Future Literacy
The launch featured a keynote by Gonzalo León, Professor at La UPM and Vice President of the Fundación Círculo de Tecnologías para la Defensa y la Seguridad, on “Dual-Use and Defence Technologies: Opportunities in Spain.” Attendees included key industry and innovation leaders such as Carlos Kuchkovsky (QCentroidLab), Fernando González-Conde (CTSolutionsG), and Isabel Córdoba (AMETIC).
By bringing together industrial capacity, operational needs, and long-term strategic vision, this working group establishes a central node for European defence innovation. It reinforces Future Literacy’s role as a driver of systemic foresight and strategic innovation, ensuring Europe is prepared for the next generation of hybrid, technological, and complex security challenges.
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