Defence / dual-use — sovereign-stack playbook
Industry #8 of 25 · Flagship reference playbook · For procurement, compliance, and technical leads at EU defence ministries, dual-use industrial operators, vapaapalokunta (VPK) coordinating civil defence, and CER / NIS2 critical-infrastructure operators.
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What's in the PDF (7 sections, 5 pages)
- Cover — frameworks, version, reference number, vendor block.
- The four hard failures of cloud-only LLMs in defence work, with a named regulation per failure (CLOUD Act vs GDPR Art. 48; NIS2 Art. 23; EU AI Act Art. 12; Reg 2021/821 dual-use).
- Recommended sovereign topology — Situation Room bridged pair (€10,093) or IGX Orin (€11,990) · Install + Full Service (€995) · Sovereign Model Updates (€299/mo) · DWS IQ 6 platform (€4,999).
- Three named workflows: drone detection + UAS classification + Article 12 hand-off · dual-use export-control screening (Reg 2021/821) · NIS2 24-hour incident reconstruction.
- 36-month TCO line: ~€36,499 sovereign vs €118,800–€136,800 manual / cloud baseline.
- Finnish procurement annex — Laki 1531/2011 ("PUTU-laki"), Directive 2009/81/EC threshold (€443,000 from 1 Jan 2026), recommended procedure (negotiated with prior publication, § 30), CPV mapping (35710000-4 primary), and the vendor identity block ready to drop into a Hilma.fi tender response.
- Reference deployment vignette + what to do next.
The four hard failures (preview)
| # | Failure | Named regulation |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | CLOUD Act exposure | US CLOUD Act 2018 vs GDPR Art. 48 (CELEX 32016R0679) |
| 2 | No 24-hour incident reconstruction | NIS2 Art. 23 (CELEX 32022L2555) |
| 3 | No Article 12 immutable record | EU AI Act Art. 12 (CELEX 32024R1689) |
| 4 | No reliable dual-use export-control reasoning | Council Reg (EU) 2021/821 (CELEX 32021R0821) |
The full PDF includes the procurement annex (Hilma.fi · Laki 1531/2011 · CPV codes · vendor identity block) and the 36-month TCO table. Request access below.
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