Nikos Dendias described defense innovation as a key pillar of the National Defense, presenting the results of the ELKAK.<\/p>\n
Minister of National Defence Nikos Dendias<\/strong> stressed that defence innovation<\/strong> is no longer a complementary element of defence policy, but a key pillar of National Defence<\/strong>, on the occasion of the completion of two years of operation of the Hellenic Centre for Defence Innovation (ELKAK)<\/strong>. <\/p>\n In a post on the social network X<\/strong>, Mr. Dendias referred to his participation in the corporate report event of ELCAC<\/strong>, noting that the establishment of the body was a “key political choice” through Law 5110\/2024<\/strong>, in the context of the “Agenda 2030”<\/strong>. <\/p>\n He noted that the mission of the ELCC<\/strong> is to operationally connect the General Staffs, the research centres<\/strong>, the research centres<\/strong>, the Supreme Military Educational Institutions<\/strong>, the industry<\/strong> and the innovative enterprises<\/strong>, creating a unified defense technology and innovation ecosystem in the armed forces. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n At the corporate review event of the Hellenic Centre for Defence Innovation (#ELKAK), for its two years of operation, with its President and CEO Pantelis Tzortzakis. <\/p>\n The establishment of ELKAK @Hcdi_SA was a key policy choice with Law 5110\/2024, in… pic.twitter.com\/D03KtraQgW<\/p>\n – Nikos Dendias (@NikosDendias) June 10, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The Minister stressed that in just two years the correctness of this option has already been proven through notices<\/strong>, calls for expressions of interest<\/strong> and contracts<\/strong> awarded. <\/p>\n In addition, he said the projects being promoted relate to critical areas of the modern business environment, such as unmanned systems<\/strong>, dealing with unmanned threats<\/strong>, unmanned munitions<\/strong>, cyber defence<\/strong>, as well as surveillance<\/strong> and sensing<\/strong> systems, which are shaping the new field of military operations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \n Nikos Dendias described defence innovation as a key pillar of National Defence, presenting the results of the ELKAK.<\/p>\n The minister …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} Dendias on two years of ELKK, first results<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\n
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