Space
15Companies selected under the Resilient Space Operations challenge area.
7 countries · based on official challenge areas
View 15 companiesTechnology themes
NATO DIANA Technology Areas and Companies
DIANA selects companies against challenge areas that change from cohort to cohort, which makes it hard to follow a technology over time. These collection pages group tracked companies into 12 stable technology themes so that space, quantum, energy, sensing, cyber and maritime work can be read across the 2024, 2025 and 2026 cohorts and the Warfighters Challenge.
12
Technology themes
10
Derived from challenge areas
Official NATO grouping
2
Derived from descriptions
Tracker classification
275
Tracked company records
Themes overlap, so totals exceed this
Themes by size
| Technology theme | Companies | Share | Relative size |
|---|---|---|---|
| Energy and power | 42 | 13.2% | |
| Artificial intelligence | 39 | 12.3% | |
| Cyber and information security | 33 | 10.4% | |
| Communications and electromagnetic | 30 | 9.5% | |
| Sensing and surveillance | 29 | 9.1% | |
| Critical infrastructure and logistics | 29 | 9.1% | |
| Human performance and biotechnology | 28 | 8.8% | |
| Data and decision superiority | 25 | 7.9% | |
| Quantum | 18 | 5.7% | |
| Space | 15 | 4.7% | |
| Maritime operations | 15 | 4.7% | |
| Autonomy and uncrewed systems | 14 | 4.4% |
All technology collections
Companies selected under the Autonomy & Unmanned Systems challenge area.
9 countries · based on official challenge areas
View 14 companiesCompanies selected under the Energy Resilience (2024) and Energy & Power (2025, 2026) challenge areas.
15 countries · based on official challenge areas
View 42 companiesCompanies selected under the Sensing & Surveillance challenge area (2024, 2025).
13 countries · based on official challenge areas
View 29 companiesCompanies selected under the Secure Information Sharing (2024) and Data & Information Security (2025) challenge areas.
19 countries · based on official challenge areas
View 33 companiesCompanies selected under the Data Assisted Decision Making challenge (2026) and the Decision Superiority for NATO Warfighters special challenge.
12 countries · based on official challenge areas
View 25 companiesCompanies selected under the Maritime Operations challenge area (2026).
8 countries · based on official challenge areas
View 15 companiesCompanies selected under the Advanced Communication Technologies and Contested Electromagnetic Environments challenge areas (2026).
16 countries · based on official challenge areas
View 30 companiesCompanies selected under the Human Health & Performance (2025) and Human Resilience & Biotechnology (2026) challenge areas.
8 countries · based on official challenge areas
View 28 companiesCompanies selected under the Critical Infrastructure & Logistics challenge area (2025, 2026).
14 countries · based on official challenge areas
View 29 companiesQuantum
18Companies whose public descriptions reference quantum technology. There is no dedicated quantum challenge area; this theme is derived from company descriptions.
9 countries · based on public company descriptions
View 18 companiesCompanies whose public descriptions reference AI or machine learning. AI appears across many challenge areas; this theme is derived from company descriptions.
17 countries · based on public company descriptions
View 39 companiesRelated pages
Methodology and limitations
Themes marked as based on official challenge areas map one or more DIANA challenge areas onto a single stable label, so membership follows NATO's own published grouping. Themes marked as based on company descriptions exist where DIANA has no matching challenge area; membership there is derived from each company's own published description and checked by hand.
Themes are not mutually exclusive and a theme is only published when at least two companies qualify, so some technologies present in the programme have no page yet.
Alliance Tech Tracker is independent and unofficial and is not affiliated with or endorsed by NATO or DIANA. Where a value is not published, records show "Not publicly available" rather than an estimate. See the full methodology.
Sources
Dataset version 2026.08 · data as of August 2026 · last reviewed 2026-08-23 · explore or download the full dataset