EDGE: Advanced Technology Priorities That Are Defining Us

摘要

Just over a year ago, the UAE consolidated all its sovereign defence capabilities under EDGE, allowing us to modernise our national capabilities systematically and comprehensively, making it fit a new type of conflict - a new era of hybrid warfare. Since the inauguration by HH Sheikh Mo-hamed bin Zayed AI Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces in November 2019, we have been able to leverage greater synergies between our subsidiary companies, better focus collaborative RD investments in advanced technologies, upgrade our capabilities more consistently, and progress at a speed that meets the needs of the fast-evolving market. These changes have already meant that we are now considered among the top 25 military suppliers in the world, and though this is quite a milestone in itself - being the first from the Middle East to be ranked among the likes of Rolls Royce, General Electric and Honeywell, our ambitions on export have only just begun.