Dutch Defence turns more active: new law for night drills and war scenarios, plus new 'DEFTECH' innovation unit

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Dutch Defence turns more active: new law for night drills and war scenarios, plus new 'DEFTECH' innovation unit
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The Dutch government is moving to make Defence significantly more active, operationally flexible and innovation-driven. The cabinet approved the final draft of the Defence Readiness Act (Wet op de Defensiegereedheid, Wodg), which will now be sent to parliament, while the Ministry of Defence is also working on a new Defence Innovation and Scaling Authority, provisionally called DEFTECH, inspired by the US DARPA model.

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