Last week, the U.K. announced its largest ever military support package for Ukraine. The bill brings the U.K.'s total support for this financial year to '3 billion ' not quite the $50 billion the U.S. pledged recently, but still substantial. But while most of those funds will be spent on very traditional military hardware, a new tech initiative launched last weekend was aimed at enhancing Ukraine's asymmetric warfare capabilities against Russia. In fact, the London Defense Tech Hackathon was the first-ever event to bring together some of the U.K.'s brightest minds in technology, venture capital, and national security in a military setting. The idea was to hack together ideas to both assist Ukraine and create a far more porous layer between the worlds of fast-paced civilian tech and the very different world of the military. The event was put together by Alex Fitzgerald of Skyral and Richard Pass of Future Forces, and the two were joined by co-organizers that included the Honourable...
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