By combining expertise, the companies aim to strengthen Europe’s digital defence industrial base with quicker decision-making, advanced targeting and precision mass strike capabilities. The partnership is intended to help militaries build capacity in this area and apply lessons from Ukraine.
The collaboration will integrate Helsing’s AI-powered defence platforms with the Systematic SitaWare suite of C4ISR already used by more than 50 nations. This will enable customers to be ‘drone ready’ and expand deployment of autonomous sensors and effectors in swarm operations.
The technology will accelerate data exchange between drones such as ISR platforms and Helsing’s HX-2 strike drone, already deployed in Ukraine. SitaWare users will be able to carry out tasks including developing target lists, creating plans, tasking strike assets and deconflicting airspace at unprecedented speed.
Data from uncrewed systems will support missions ranging from target nomination to battle damage assessment. Combined with HX-2 strike capabilities, the system provides commanders with an end-to-end F3EAD process: find, fix, finish, exploit, analyse and disseminate.
Helsing’s Co-founder and Co-CEO, Gundbert Scherf, says: “This partnership brings together two entrepreneurial and sovereign European technology companies: Systematic, the leader in interoperable battle management systems, and Helsing, at the forefront of AI-enabled reconnaissance and strike. We share a mission and an ambition — to intelligently network our forces at the speed the threat situation demands. What wins wars is not individual systems, but the ability to connect them and to iterate at the speed of relevance. Together, we will deliver exactly that for Europe’s defence.”
Systematic’s Chairman and Founder of Systematic, Michael Holm, says: “Systematic has always been at the forefront of data delivery for military operations, with Helsing emerging as one of the major European players in AI and new technologies. As the AI age is increasing how we can use data, partnerships such as this help our users to get the most out of their systems, and the other platforms that support them. As Europe continues to invest in its own defence technological and industrial base, we are helping to improve European sovereignty, while also providing our allies and partners with advanced data solutions.”
