Last month, France tested Arcadia, its sovereign AI Command-and-Control (C2) system, during NATO’s CWIX exercise in Poland.
Positioned as an alternative to Palantir’s Maven (now NATO’s operational C2 AI backbone), Arcadia is part of a broader European push for technological sovereignty.
But Maven already has NATO full authorisation to handle classified data, while Arcadia doesn’t. The real test isn’t on the battlefield. It is in procurement choices: will European sovereignty ambitions translate into actual adoption, or stay symbolic?
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Sveva Musumeci is a Security & Defence Researcher at Finabel