Question group
12. Operational Technology, Innovation and Technical Security
Questions in this group:
12. Operational Technology, Innovation and Technical Security
12.2f How might advances in communication technologies (e.g. future telephony, social media, the evolution of the internet) provide new opportunities and create new challenges for the effective delivery of diplomatic outcomes and for securely running a global operation?
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, 2026
12. Operational Technology, Innovation and Technical Security
12.2d How might academic and industry partners’ evaluation of new and existing technologies and their development of novel dual-use or single-use solutions inform the FCDO’s future operational capabilities and enable the FCDO and our partners to achieve diplomatic advantage?
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, 2026
12. Operational Technology, Innovation and Technical Security
12.2b In an ever more connected, data rich and complex world, how might we optimise our use of rich and diverse data sets to understand the intent of other actors, to inform decision makers, to drive faster and better decisions and to counter the risks from information manipulation?
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, 2026
12. Operational Technology, Innovation and Technical Security
12.1b What do academic and industry partners’ evaluations of new and existing technologies recommend in terms of continuing sufficient protection of national security assets. What are the foreign policy implications of these for the UK?
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, 2026
12. Operational Technology, Innovation and Technical Security
12.1a What are the threats and opportunities to national security presented by new and applied sciences (e.g. acoustics, quantum advances, machine learning, artificial intelligence, future radio frequency transmission techniques). What are the foreign policy implications of the associated engineering, technology and cultural shifts?
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, 2026
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