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The intelligence brief defence founders actually use.
Every week, Field Notes surfaces the funding calls, tenders, regulatory moves, and market signals that matter for European defence and dual-use ventures. Specific enough to be wrong, which means when it is right, it changes a decision.
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Contents
What is in each issue
Every Field Notes issue covers four domains. Not as a template, as a discipline. Each domain is covered only when there is something worth covering. When nothing significant happened in a domain that week, it is not padded.
Funding calls and investor signals
EDF and EUDIS calls, NATO DIANA cohorts, national MoD innovation funds, and the rounds defence-capable investors actually closed in the past seven days. Not a press release summary, a structured read on what is getting funded, at what stage, by whom, and what it signals for your own raise or grant application.
Tenders and procurement signals
Tender publications from TED, NSPA, BAAINBw, DGA, DASA, and FMV, contract awards, budget lines, and prime contractor supplier-programme moves that reveal where real buyer demand is. The gap between what defence customers say they want and what they actually buy is wide. Field Notes tracks the latter.
Regulation and export control
Dual-use classification changes under EU 2021/821, ITAR and EAR exposure, AQAP and STANAG qualification requirements, and national licensing shifts. Framed for founders, what changed, which authority, what the effective date is, and what it means for a venture selling into that jurisdiction. Public sources only, always.
Defence tech landscape
The moves that matter across C-UAS, electronic warfare, ISR, autonomy, munitions, space-defence, and cyber. New entrants, demonstrations, and capability milestones, framed around constraint and opportunity, not hype. What is now fundable or procurable that was not six months ago, and where the whitespace still is.
Why
Why specific intelligence matters
Generic defence news is easy to find. What is hard to find is intelligence specific enough to change a decision, a tender that fits your capability and closes in eight weeks, a regulatory change that affects your export licence, a funding signal that tells you an investor is actively looking in your domain.
Field Notes is built for founders who need to make decisions, not for readers who want to stay informed. The difference is specificity. A brief that covers everything covers nothing. Field Notes is deliberately narrow, European defence and dual-use, filtered for founder relevance, written for action.
It is also the proof of concept for fieldfaster's synthetic positions. Every issue is produced by the same source set, relevance logic, and quality gate that powers Funding Radar, Tender Sentinel, and Regulatory Watcher. Reading Field Notes is the fastest way to assess whether the synthetic positions would be useful for your venture.
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