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Up front, I want to make clear that our ability to deliver on many of the initiatives we are announcing today begins with how NATO engages with our industry. We want it to be simpler and faster. We cannot defend ourselves without you. That is why today, we are launching the NATO Front Door for Industry. This is a new platform to make sure industry is aware of opportunities and to streamline their engagement with the Alliance. The door is now open. This Front Door is your single point to access everything from procurement opportunities to innovation events. I encourage you all to visit, engage with us through this platform, test it, and also provide feedback. We are going to continually refine the platform in the coming months and aim to have it fully operational in 2027. I want you all to know that this is a new phase of NATO’s relationship with industries. Now, I am also very excited to announce a new initiative, the NATO Engine. This is about transatlantic cooperation through industrial production. No single nation has the industrial capacity required to meet the large and growing demand. Especially for some of the capabilities we need the most, such as air defence and strike capabilities. To rebuild our arsenals and outproduce our competitors, we need to produce capabilities at scale and super-charge innovation. The NATO Engine will support our most promising companies to scale cross-border production and collaboration on both sides of the Atlantic without huge investment. It will establish a network of factories and advanced manufacturing facilities with available capacity accessible to our defence industries and innovation ecosystems. Matching spare capacity with those that want to produce fast and, we hope, resulting in dramatically increased production. This will be the engine to spur on our production even further. Let’s move on to the next announcements. The very nature of the NATO Alliance is cooperation across the Atlantic. So I am particularly pleased to announce major initiatives that our Allies are undertaking together. Not least on essential air defence and strike capabilities. We know these are crucial capabilities on the battlefield, and vital to our shared security. And we know we need a lot more of them, for our own defence as well as to support Ukraine. So first, several NATO Allies are joining new, multinational procurement coalitions. This really helps us get more of what we need across a range of capabilities, including Naval and Joint Strike Missiles and Small Diameter Bombs. By aggregating demand, and cohering procurement approaches, industrial capacity efforts, and investments, Allies can truly begin to close specific capability gaps. We’re pleased to see a range of Allies working notably with Kongsberg, Raytheon, Boeing, and RWM Italia on some of these initiatives. Second, I welcome that the United States and several of its leading defence companies, including Anduril, Boeing, General Dynamics Land Systems, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, have agreed new industrial cooperation initiatives with major European players in the defence sector, like Diehl, PGZ and Rheinmetall. This will allow us to produce or sustain key American capabilities such as the Abrams tank, AMRAAMS, ATACMS, the Barracuda-500M, Small Diameter Bombs, and Stingers, here in Europe. I think this is big news. And a demonstration of NATO’s signature transatlantic unity in delivering key capabilities for our joint security. We can do more when we do it together. And we must do more of it. NATO Spokesperson Allison Hart Thank you so much Secretary General. Now, with respect to our announcement on industrial cooperation agreements with the United States, I would like to invite Undersecretary of War for Acquisition and Sustainment, Mike Duffey, to the stage. And I would like to invite the additional participating Allied representatives of the industrial cooperation agreements to the stage: Belgium, Canada, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Norway, and Sweden. And on the industry side, I would also like to invite representatives from Anduril, Diehl, General Dynamics Land Systems, Lockheed Martin, PGZ, Raytheon, Rheinmetall, and the NATO Support and Procurement Agency. Alright. I will invite all Allied representatives to remain on the stage along with Raytheon. Other industry representatives may return to their seats. And I would now invite the additional participating Allied representatives of our procurement coalition to the stage: Denmark, Estonia, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Portugal, Romania, Spain, and the United Kingdom. And for industry, I would also like to invite representatives from Boeing and Kongsberg to the stage. Thank you so much. Allied representatives and industry may return to their seats. Secretary General, I would like to turn back to you to announce our new initiative on defence critical raw materials. Link was copied to clipboard
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