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A low-cost visibility route into the EUDIS/EDF ecosystem with mentorship and defence-industry jury contact, focused on GNSS-denied navigation and swarming. Relevant to early-stage autonomy, PNT and swarm-software teams with a working prototype, including Ukrainian firms. Do: Monitor eudis-hackathon.eu for registration opening and pre-select a host location (e.g. Linköping Science Park or Kjeller Innovasjon) matching your national challenge, with a demonstrable GNSS-denied navigation or swarm prototype ready for 15–17 October 2026.

This is a routine value increase to an existing single-vendor sustainment contract (Rohde & Schwarz), not a new competitive opportunity; incumbent lock-in is clear.

The legal framework for Swiss SIGINT collection is being rewritten, which will shape future NDB requirements for interception, cable-tapping and data-processing systems. Relevant to SIGINT/EW and lawful-interception vendors and data-analytics firms with Swiss presence tracking future armasuisse/NDB procurement. Do: Track the October 2026 Vernehmlassung on the NDG supplementary package and submit a position or brief the NDB/VBS on interception and data-processing capability implications.

Cyberagentur market consultations typically precede a funded multi-lot research competition, so early input can shape scope and cost baselines for a swarm-autonomy programme. Relevant to autonomy-stack, swarm C2 and GNSS-denied navigation developers and research-heavy SMEs able to contract with a German federal agency. Do: Download the Markterkundung documents at cyberagentur.de/programme/iris and submit your effort and cost estimate plus capability profile to the Cyberagentur now, ahead of the formal IRiS call.

armasuisse is institutionalising a recurring Swiss-only defence research channel focused on GNSS anti-jam and C-UAS, but funding flows exclusively to ETH-domain labs. C-UAS and GNSS-resilience companies in Switzerland should care as downstream partners rather than applicants. Do: If you work in C-UAS or GNSS anti-jam, line up a research partnership with an EPFL/ETHZ lab now so you are attached to a proposal when the autumn 2026 call opens.

A new 'Technology & Capabilities' directorate consolidates the NDB's technical procurement and capability ownership, changing the entry point for SIGINT, cyber and data-analytics suppliers to Swiss intelligence. Relevant to Swiss-domiciled cyber, OSINT/data-fusion and SIGINT vendors tracking NDB buying authority. Do: Re-map your NDB account plan to the new Technologie & Fähigkeiten directorate and re-establish contacts once leadership is announced in autumn 2026; keep monitoring simap.ch for NDB technical tenders.

These are the Swiss army's shopping lines for 2027–30 and armasuisse will procure most of them by direct negotiation with system OEMs (Diehl for IRIS-T SLM, Lockheed Martin for F-35A) — non-Swiss suppliers get in via those primes and via the offset obligations, Swiss SMEs via the 60 %-in-Switzerland target of the armament policy. Do: If you supply C-UAS effectors/sensors, SHORAD components, EW/COMINT, radar subsystems or space ISR: contact armasuisse's competence area for the relevant programme now (Fliegerabwehr, Führungs- und Aufklärungssysteme) and the offset offices of Diehl Defence and Lockheed Martin Switzerland — the money is released after the National Council vote in the autumn session.

Relevant to quantum sensing and EW/PNT-resilience specialists in Germany; signals Cyberagentur's early interest in quantum PNT vulnerability, likely followed by further tranches.

Small but concrete Swiss spectrum-monitoring instrumentation replacement where the incumbent is Rohde & Schwarz, and armasuisse explicitly invites partial-fit alternatives. Relevant to RF test-and-measurement / signal analyser makers and their Swiss resellers. Do: If you build broadcast/RF signal analysers, monitor simap.ch for the follow-on armasuisse tender for the BAKOM analyser replacement, as the RFI window closed on 10 July 2026.