Merz’s €600 Billion Defense Push Is Rippling Across Germany
Friedrich Merz
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Fabian Schmitt is seeing a leap in demand from defense clients eager to deploy his mission software.
The jolt from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has triggered Germany’s biggest military transformation since the Cold War. Firms like HAT.tec GmbH, which Schmitt co-founded in 2018, are striving to keep pace after a period during which it took years to bring products to market.