PARIS — Renault Trucks Defense will display its hybrid technology demonstrator at the summer university conference of Medef, the employers’ federation, the vehicle manufacturer said Aug. 23.

“The Elector demonstrator shows the compatibility of hybrid technology with the use of medium armored reconnaissance vehicles,” the company said in a statement. “The research and innovation plan of Renault Trucks Defense feeds the strategic reflection on the future use of the land forces.”

Design and evolution of vehicles for reconnaissance, intelligence gathering, logistics and combat are among the major themes in RTD’s research and development strategy, the company said. There is also a search for protection against changing threats in operational theater, integration of complex tactical systems for communication and observation, and adapting solutions for the support of vehicle fleets using protected information technology.

Defense is one of the major topics at the high-level Medef conference, to be held Aug. 29-30 on the campus of HEC, a business school just outside of Paris.

Among the speakers in the conference’s debate “Wars and Peace” are French Minister of the Armed Forces Florence Parly; French Air Force Gen. Denis Mercier, the head of NATO’s Allied Command Transformation; and French Navy Vice Adm. Anne Cullerre. How much to cut from the defense budget and the economic dimensions of war and peace are among the topics for discussion.

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