On January 27, 2026, Telefónica announced that it had joined NATO’s Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA), integrating six of its innovation centres in Spain into the transatlantic network. The agreement made Telefónica the only Spanish private-sector participant in DIANA, alongside the INTA El Pardo campus, with the collaboration taking effect from 2026.
The six centres included The ThinX innovation lab in Madrid, the TEFQCI experimental quantum communications network driving Quantum-Safe and QKD solutions, the C4IN cybersecurity centre in León, the Málaga innovation hub, and two Technology and Innovation Centres in Alcobendas and Tovar, Madrid. The partnership focused on quantum technologies, the Internet of Things, and cybersecurity.
Telefónica said the collaboration would foster knowledge sharing with more than 150 companies in the DIANA network, enabling validation of technologies, use cases, and defence-related solutions. The TEFQCI network was highlighted as a key asset, supporting the evolution toward Quantum-Safe networks and services using post-quantum cryptographic algorithms that would resist decryption by future quantum attacks.