NATO and Emerging Technologies: The Alliance's Shifting Approach to Military Innovation

Stephen Herzog; Dominika Kunertova

NATO and Emerging Technologies: The Alliance's Shifting Approach to Military Innovation

Computers and Society 2026-07-01 v1 Emerging Technologies

Authors: Stephen Herzog , Dominika Kunertova

Abstract

In the current era of great-power competition and the diffusion of emerging disruptive technologies on the battlefield, NATO's approach to coordinating the development, adoption, and standardization of new technologies is changing from its practices during the Cold War, but the nature of these technologies poses additional challenges for the alliance.

Keywords

NATO emerging technologies military innovation technology adoption standardization defense policy

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@article{arxiv.2607.00437,
  title  = {NATO and Emerging Technologies: The Alliance's Shifting Approach to Military Innovation},
  author = {Stephen Herzog and Dominika Kunertova},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.00437},
  year   = {2026}
}

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23 pages. Available here: https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/nwc-review/vol77/iss2/5