More than 50 000 visitors. Delegations from 65 countries. Eurosatory 2026 established itself as the largest edition in the exhibition’s history. For critical operations experts, the message was unmistakable: data has become a fully-fledged operational asset. For European security forces, two major priorities now stand out: the transition toward digital sovereignty and the deployment of truly operational artificial intelligence, free from hallucination risks and powered by sovereign data.
The conclusions of this edition validate over 22 years of R&D investment by Suadeo.
Among the major challenges facing Defense and Homeland Security stakeholders, the convergence of sovereignty, artificial intelligence, data, and command capabilities has emerged as a strategic cornerstone.
Suadeo teams attending Eurosatory 2026 confirmed a clear trend: the ability to collect, correlate, and analyze heterogeneous data in real time, from private sources, field operations, IoT devices, and public channels such as social media, has become a top priority for security forces seeking to maintain situational awareness and accelerate decision-making.
Military headquarters, homeland security agencies, and civil protection organizations all share the same objective.
Real-time Data and operational AI at the heart of command
Contemporary challenges require cutting-edge capabilities and the modernization of information systems. Faced with an ever-growing volume of data, much of it now generated and disseminated by individuals who have become highly effective digital communicators, the challenge of information warfare has become universal.
Being alerted in real time and relying on effective risk prediction capabilities without extra-territorial dependencies requires complete autonomy across the entire data value chain, from collection and processing to operational exploitation, supported by a mature generation of artificial intelligence.
This has been Suadeo’s conviction for years. To meet these operational requirements, we have strengthened our data platform, built on more than 22 years of R&D, with domain-specific AI agents deployed on-premises at every stage of the data lifecycle (ingestion, governance, analysis, detection, and prediction), augmenting users’ operational capabilities and decision-making processes.
Sovereignty: the word echoing throughout every corridor
The return of power politics and strategic competition is sounding an alarm. While President Emmanuel Macron’s call for digital sovereignty in 2025 reshaped the priorities of many decision-makers, a clear divide has now emerged between organizations capable of controlling their data, infrastructure, and AI models, and those that remain dependent on non-European technologies.
Recent U.S. decisions to restrict access to certain advanced AI capabilities on national sovereignty and export-control grounds have further reinforced the urgency of this issue, highlighting a reality that can no longer be ignored: European and French digital sovereignty is no longer a long-term ambition. It has become an operational imperative.
When, shortly thereafter, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu stated that “we cannot accept new strategic dependencies in the digital domain,” and when France’s domestic intelligence agency (DGSI) selected a French solution to replace Palantir, an entire strategic doctrine began to take shape.
At Suadeo, this is not a topic we discovered in 2026. 2026. We have been building sovereign capabilities for more than 22 years, without any non-European dependencies. The market has simply caught up with a conviction we have held from the very beginning.
From day one, we made a deliberate choice: fully controlled, on-premises AI agents operating within a unified and sovereign data platform, compliant with the most demanding regulatory frameworks, including IGI 1300, II 901 (Restricted Distribution), HDS, the AI Act, GDPR, and ISO 27001. No extra-European dependencies. No grey areas when it comes to sensitive data.
Real-time Data, Operational AI, Resource Coordination, and Risk Detection: Key takeaways from Eurosatory 2026
In discussions with decision-makers from the Gendarmerie, Armed Forces, European security agencies, Fire and Rescue Services (SDIS), Intelligence Services, and other public security organizations, four recurring priorities consistently emerged:
- Real-time hypervision capabilities to manage multi-source crisis situations without information loss.
- The ability to collect, interconnect, qualify, and query massive volumes of heterogeneous data in real time, enhanced by sovereign predictive models free from hallucination risks.
- Risk and threat prediction based on heterogeneous data streams (IoT sensors, social media, surveillance cameras, weak signals, field reports, incident logs, and more), combined with real-time coordination of multiple stakeholders, decision-makers, and field teams across several countries.
- Augmented decision-making autonomy without extra-continental dependencies, without latency, and without compromising security.
These are precisely the use cases we demonstrate every day through concrete operational deployments and proven field experience, notably within the French Ministry of the Interior, including the National Strategic Command Center and the Interministerial Crisis Management Unit.
Following Eurosatory 2026, our teams are more committed than ever to promoting French expertise in digital technologies: information mastery, fraud detection, ontology-driven intelligence, crisis and critical operations management, and cross-functional coordination, all serving the mission of civil protection and territorial security.
