Can Simulation and High-Tech Safeguard Europe’s Defense?

Digital engineering Can Simulation and High-Tech Safeguard Europe’s Defence?

2026-07-15 Source: Press release CADFEM 1 min Reading Time

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How engineers and technology leaders can contribute to Europe’s sovereignty and resilience will be the focus of the next Blueprint Talk, broadcast live on July 21 from the CADFEM headquarters in Grafing near Munich.

Europe is at a turning point: Geopolitical tensions, shifting alliances, and fragile supply chains are currently shaping politics and society. Defence technologies and defence capabilities—long considered niche topics—have now become central drivers of political and industrial transformation.

“Europe’s strategic resilience today depends to a large extent on technological sovereignty,” says Josef A. Overberg, Managing Director of CADFEM Germany GmbH, a company specialising in digital simulation, ahead of the event. This edition of the Blueprint Talk will examine what the “turning point” currently being debated in politics and society means for engineers, technology leaders, and decision-makers in the high-tech sector—and how digital engineering and software-defined development can help deliver modern, flexible, and deployable defence systems in Europe in a timely manner.

The discussion will feature Yvonne Weitsch from technology group Rohde & Schwarz, Christoph Spranger from radio systems provider VITES, and Matteo Berioli from satellite communications startup AUGUSTA SPACE. In conversation with moderator Sarah Yvonne Elsser, they will explore how highly complex, next-generation defence systems can be implemented faster and more efficiently, and how companies, research institutions, and policymakers can collaborate most effectively.

The talk will be streamed live in English starting at 11:00 a.m. Further information and free registration are available at www.cadfem.net/blueprint26 .

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