{"id":999464,"date":"2026-03-26T09:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T03:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=999464"},"modified":"2026-03-26T10:02:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T04:32:40","slug":"drone-makers-defence-start-ups-to-get-rapid-funding-under-eu-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/26\/drone-makers-defence-start-ups-to-get-rapid-funding-under-eu-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone-makers, defence start-ups to get &#8216;rapid&#8217; funding under EU plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The EU put forward plans to fund start-ups developing drones and other defence innovations at &#8220;record speed&#8221; Wednesday, as the bloc races to rearm and boost its military sector.<\/p>\n<p>The European Commission said it will make available 115 million euros ($133 million) to small and medium European defence companies under a new funding tool dubbed &#8220;Agile&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot aims to finance up to 30 projects from 2027, slashing grant-approval times to under four months to have new technologies ready for armed forces within three years, Brussels said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EU put forward plans to fund start-ups developing drones and other defence innovations at &#8220;record speed&#8221; Wednesday, as the bloc races to rearm and boost its military sector. The European Commission said it will make available 115 million euros ($133 million) to small and medium European defence companies under a new funding tool dubbed &#8220;Agile&#8221;. The pilot aims to finance up to 30 projects from 2027, slashing grant-approval times to under four months to have new technologies ready for armed forces within three years, Brussels said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}