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NATO’s Tech Scouts Are Fortifying Europe for a World With Donald Trump

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Space Forge wants to send satellites equipped with tiny clean rooms into space, where they’ll grow semiconductor crystals before transporting them safely back to Earth .

Manufacturing semiconductors in space has the potential to provide efficiencies that could create superior versions of military tools such as radar.

Space Forge has piqued the interest of the 1 billion ($ 1bn ) NATO Innovation Fund ( NIF ).

The NIF is a defense-focused version of the World Bank .

The fund acts as a conduit to link European defense ministries and startups.

One billion euros is not enough to fix Europe , a region whose issues are a mix of strategic and economic.

In theory, the NIF will become a funding model that’s self-sustaining for NATO innovation priorities.