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b'Getting a new defense product to market takes up to 10 years. So what do industry leaders feel we should be worrying about now? We ask six senior company representatives to reveal where they see the biggest threats developing.\\n\\n00.06 \\u2013 Voice-over \\u2013 Paul King \\u2013 Editor, NATO Review\\nNATO Review asked representatives of six leading defense companies what they think will be the biggest threats in the next 10 years. Here we present their answers.\\n\\n00.17 \\u2013 Jeff Kohler \\u2013 Vice President, International Business Development, Boeing \\nI don\\u2019t think we still understand critical infrastructure protection and how cyber can affect that. As we sit here right at the entrance of the Bosporus and you just look at all the shipping that\\u2019s going through, it wouldn\\u2019t take much to distort, to disrupt the flow of that, causing confusion and who is going which way and so forth. So, this is a serious threat we have to pay attention to. I think, again from my commercial aircraft\\u2019s side, we\\u2019re very concerned about it. As commercial airplanes become more and more digital and electronic, we have actually started to put cyber protection into the software of our commercial airplanes. Because if you think about it, as they enter an airport environment, they\\u2019re starting to exchange information. And so we have to able to protect the aircraft software itself. So, there are a lot of issues coming down the road, just on cyber alone. \\n\\n01.16 \\u2013 Martin Hill \\u2013 Vice President Defense, EU and NATO affairs, Thales\\nFor me\\u2026 cyber. The new global commons is cyber, the network. Every single item that we have depends on cyber. The timing signals from Satnav fundamentally define every single financial transaction\\u2026 All of our critical infrastructure is controlled by some sort of network. This is the\\u2026 has to be the area where we\\u2019re going to face problems. And we\\u2019re going to have to spend a fortune actually. \\n\\n01.53 \\u2013 David Perry \\u2013 Corporate Vice President, Northrop Grumman\\nThere will be a massive shift towards unmanned systems, not just aircraft, but unmanned systems. There will be a massive increase in interoperability, in interconnectedness of those systems as they are deployed around the world. And many have called that the \\u2018Internet of things\\u2019. So, just about every tangible device could be connected in some way, sharing information on the grid. Rather than just your smartphone, think of everything in your life being somehow enabled with some degree of connectivity. \\n\\n02.29 \\u2013 Steve Williams \\u2013 Regional President for Continental Europe, Lockheed Martin\\nYou\\u2019ll see more dual use. What used to be just looking for enemy targets, now can actually help you in some of our satellite constellations today, better understand the environment, looking towards the Arctic, where someone may have an issue and need combat search and rescue or better awareness. I think the tools for that are going to be far more heavily relied on, just as we do with our iPhone today. Ten years ago it was just a phone.\\n\\n03.00 \\u2013 Alberto de Benedictis \\u2013 CEO, Finmeccanica UK\\nWe\\u2019re looking at all those areas that allow smaller forces to be more effective anywhere a conflict is required. So, whether it\\u2019s commanding control, whether it\\u2019s joined ISTAR, whether it\\u2019s cyber, all those areas that quote unquote connect forces and allow them to multiply the capability, that\\u2019s, I think, one of the biggest focus areas.\\n\\n \\n\\n03.33 \\u2013 H\\xe5kan Buskhe \\u2013 President and CEO, Saab\\nI think basically to fast reaction equipment, to have a good surveillance capability and possibility to move the right equipment to exact targeting will be the key going forward. And then of course it\\u2019s connected to information technology in many parts. And I think that\\u2019s probably the thing that will be moving ahead if we see the trends today. The problem with trends is that they will be interrupted by other things.\\n\\nNATO Review\\n\\nwww.nato.int/review\\n\\nThe opinions expressed in NATO Review do not necessarily reflect those of NATO or its member countries. \\n\\nThis video contains footage from ITN. While this video may be reproduced and used in its entirety, ITN footage cannot be used as part of a new production.'