DIANA
Abstract
To combat the evolving threat and development of critical technologies, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) established the Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) to leverage dual-use technological advances in Allied centers of innovation to achieve the Alliance’s operational requirements, including accelerating the development, testing, and fielding of security technology solutions to achieve an advantage over the evolving threat. The NATO DIANA program only provides non-traditional business partners from Alliance nations with funding to accelerate new technical solutions and commercialization specifically where the technology holds a dual use (commercial and defense in nature) potential. Advanced development and testing to facilitate adoption into U.S. defense programs requires supporting funding for our own labs and test centers to pull that technology into our Defense acquisition ecosystem. This project enables the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E)) to assist in accelerating military capability development for U.S. forces as well as our NATO Allies and will expose new U.S. industries to the European markets. Fielding of critical technologies in the proposed areas will have significant positive impact on detecting the enemy first, ensuing effective communications and data exchange between coalition partners, as well as systems developed by different original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), and enabling robotic and autonomous systems to remain on station longer periods of time for greater operation impact. NATO DIANA advances access to technology across larger security challenges. These enhancements will contribute to increasing lethality across the U.S. and NATO military capabilities. The NATO DIANA initiative will fund dual-use technologies identified through the NATO DIANA challenges found sufficiently mature with the potential for meaningful impact for U.S. forces on the battlefield for continued development, testing, integration, and experimentation and proposes to fund each technology for capability maturation.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2025
- Source ID
- 353_0603945D8Z_3_0400_PB_2025
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