United States European Command Defense Industry Forum

You are invited to the United States European Command (USEUCOM) Defense Industry Forum (DIF), occurring 30 July 2026 via web conference from 1500 – 1700 CET / 0900 – 1100 EDT.

The objective for this Forum is communicate USEUCOM theater strategy, capability needs, exercise schedule, and technology focus areas to industry stakeholders for maximum awareness of USEUCOM operational needs and engagement opportunities.

This is intended to be the first of a series of USEUCOM industry engagements, the registration form will request pre event input and after completion we will solicit attendee feedback.  This data will be used to assess the utility of the engagement and determine the need for and focus of future events, your input and response is greatly appreciated.

Registration is via the USEUCOM Webpage.  Please visit the following link and scroll to the “USEUCOM Defense Industry Forum” section at the bottom of the page:  https://www.eucom.mil/industry-engagements.  Registration will be open until 28 July 2026.

The forum will be a broadcast web based conference hosted from USEUCOM, the planned agenda is:

Agenda:

• Kickoff
• Theater Strategy
• Technology Focus Areas
• Allied Burden Sharing Approach
• Transition Programs/LNO Presentation
• Exercise Schedule, EMTEC Overview
• AI Strategy, Approach, Priorities
• Service Component Summaries
• Wrap up

USEUCOM has published a list of Technology Focus Areas to inform industry partners about priority technology needs for the command.  Those focus areas are outlined below for information:

USEUCOM Science and Technology Focus Area Descriptions

1. Kinetic and Non-Kinetic Effects: Complementary ways military power and related instruments are applied to influence adversaries, protect allies, and achieve operational and strategic objectives.

a. Low-cost, attritable systems: Inexpensive, expendable, and rapidly replaceable platforms—often unmanned—that can be fielded in large numbers to generate and sustain combat power and complicate an adversary’s targeting and decision-making, even when many are lost in combat. Includes ability to rapidly iterate, scale production and team with legacy weapons/systems.

b. Integrated Air & Missile Defense: Resilient combined, layered, and networked system of U.S. and allied capabilities that detects, tracks, decides on, and engages air and missile threats to protect forces, populations, and critical infrastructure.

c. Undersea sensing, effects, and resilience: Technologies and systems designed to achieve and maintain undersea superiority in contested environments.

d. Autonomous and cooperative systems: Intelligent platforms and software that can operate independently or in concert with other manned and unmanned systems.

e. Counter Unmanned Aerial Systems: Control the air environment—leveraging friendly air and unmanned systems while denying adversaries the ability to exploit drones or other aerial platforms for surveillance, attack, or coercion, focused on countering group 1 and 2 threats.

f. Ground-based, long-range, large area effects: Theater-level land capabilities that can project significant, scalable combat power across great distances to shape the operational environment and support deterrence.

g. New and developmental effects systems: Emerging, modernized, or prototyped weapons—lethal and non-lethal—that are being fielded, tested, or refined to address current and anticipated threats.

h. Cyberspace sensing and effects: Capabilities to achieve superiority in the cyberspace domain by integrating cyberspace sensing with a full spectrum of cyber effects.

i. Electronic attack resilience technology: Capabilities that protect and enable friendly forces to operate in a congested and contested electromagnetic spectrum.

2. Technology and Data Integration: Coordinated integration across weapons, communications, sensors, logistics, and intelligence—into a single, secure, and interoperable information environment using common standards to provide warfighters and leaders with timely, accurate, and actionable insight for planning and operations.

a. Outside Continental United States Multi-level Security Cloud Capability: Provide secure, theater-based cloud services outside the continental United States supporting multiple classification levels (Unclassified through Top Secret). Operates in contested environments with strict separation and control of classified data, compliance with U.S. defense and coalition security requirements, providing resilient, low-latency support for warfighting applications.

b. All-domain planning and decision support technology: Advanced software and AIdriven tools that integrate data from all operational domains (air, land, sea, space, and cyber) into a single, coherent picture. This technology enables commanders to visualize the battlespace, anticipate adversary actions, and receive data-backed recommendations for synchronizing joint and coalition operations at speed and scale.

c. Information superiority technology: The collection of tools, techniques, and networks used to gain and maintain a decisive advantage in the information environment.

d. Resilient Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence Systems: Integrated networks, tools, and processes that allow USEUCOM and its component commands to plan, direct, coordinate, and assess operations under sustained attacks.

3. Logistics & Sustainment: AI-enabled systems and equipment that enable planning and executing the movement, supply, and maintenance of forces, encompassing areas like transportation, inventory management, health services, and facilities.

a. Early entry bulk fuel distribution system in a contested environment: Rapidly establish, protect, and operate a theater fuel network from the very start of a crisis or conflict.