MTSI’s Matt Driskill moderated two sessions on closing the West’s munitions gap and accelerating allied rapid acquisition, capping a week of high-level engagement across Berlin’s defense, government, and investment community.
BERLIN — MTSI’s Matt Driskill took an active seat at one of Europe’s most closely watched defense innovation gatherings this June, moderating two sessions at the Mission 2044 ReArm Europe Summit, held June 10 at Berlin’s Futurium. The summit brought together founders, investors, defense primes, and government and military leaders from across Europe and allied nations to confront a defining question for the continent: how to rebuild the industrial capacity, technological leadership, and resilience required for a more contested security environment.
On the summit’s Main Stage, Driskill moderated a panel on one of the alliance’s most urgent industrial challenges: the West’s growing munitions production gap and the path to rebuilding resilient, scalable capacity. He was joined by senior voices from across the defense and industrial base, including representatives from @MBDA, @BAE Systems, @Stark, @Helsing, and the @Czechoslovak Group — a lineup that reflects the caliber of the conversation MTSI was invited to help lead.
On the summit’s FORGE stage, Driskill moderated “Adaptation Warfare: The Technology Race Shaping the Future of Conflict,” a fireside conversation with Steffen Krüger, Strategic Assessments Officer within the Major Directorate-General for the Armed Forces at the German Federal Ministry of Defence (BMVg). The two discussed how the German MOD is translating hard lessons from Ukraine and the Middle East into formal doctrine and procurement signals — from the Bundeswehr’s new Overall Concept of Military Defence to Germany’s Defence Industry Strategy and Procurement Acceleration Act — and what that shift means for allied and non-traditional suppliers navigating the German defense market.
The summit capped a packed week for MTSI in Berlin. Driskill’s schedule also included a U.S. Embassy reception for industry, investor, and government stakeholders; sessions at SuperReturn’s Tech Sovereignty and Defense track, where global private capital is increasingly flowing into European defense and dual-use technology; a dinner with a member of the German Bundestag; meetings with the German Ministry of Defence, the U.S. Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), U.S. European Command (EUCOM), and senior staff from the U.S. Department of War; and a visit to Berlin’s ILA Air Show. Taken together, the week gave MTSI a direct line of sight into how U.S. government leaders, allied ministries, industry primes, and private capital are converging on the same urgent problem: how to field capability faster.
That problem sits at the center of MTSI’s international strategy. For more than two decades, MTSI has helped U.S. government customers stand up and operate organizations purpose-built for rapid capability development — the same organizational agility, technical depth, and acquisition speed increasingly discussed on stages like the one in Berlin. As allied nations work to translate lessons from Ukraine and a rapidly shifting threat environment into faster, more adaptive acquisition systems of their own, MTSI is positioning itself as a partner that has already built this muscle for the U.S. military, and is ready to help allies build it too.
“MTSI is now embracing the opportunity to help our allies solve their hardest technical national security problems so they are more capable partners in providing deterrence against our adversaries.”
— Matt Driskill, MTSI
MTSI’s international team will carry these Berlin conversations into a full slate of engagements across Europe and the Indo-Pacific this fall.
To learn more about MTSI’s international engagements and offering, explore mtsi-va.com or contact Matt Driskill.
