ovelarsen<p>Former <a href="https://norrebro.space/tags/CIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CIA</span></a> Officer (now venture capitalist) Capitalizing on Europe</p><p>..“during a 24-hour swing through <a href="https://norrebro.space/tags/Copenhagen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Copenhagen</span></a> last month, Eric Slesinger met with engineers making maritime <a href="https://norrebro.space/tags/drones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>drones</span></a>, developers of war-planning <a href="https://norrebro.space/tags/software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>software</span></a></p><p>..soon head to the Arctic to learn about the technologies that could handle extreme climates<br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/technology/cia-officer-europe-military-spending.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/04/14/technol</span><span class="invisible">ogy/cia-officer-europe-military-spending.html</span></a> (paywalled)</p><p>Technologists, entrepreneurs and investors are racing to take advantage of the spending boom by creating new defense start-ups</p>