Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts

SCEPTRE: a UK SME Sovereign Stack

UK SMEs

Effect-Focussed

Open and Modular

INTEGRATOR: 2iC software connects users to their ever-changing inventory of disparate devices, platforms and systems

SENSOR: Vizgard provide platform-agnostic AI vision that transforms defence and security cameras into autonomous teammates

DECIDER: Hadean powers next-generation command and control for the era of multidomain conflict - enabled by AI and Autonomous Systems

EFFECTOR: Kraken deliver technically advanced littoral, surface, and subsurface capabilities in order to meet current and future operational demands

SENSOR: Evolve Dynamics provides rugged, resilient ISTAR UAS, engineered and optimised to meet the demands of the modern warfighter

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Defence 2 min read 17 Sep 2025

UK SMEs Unite to Launch SCEPTRE – A Next-Gen Sovereign Stack

Atomic Targeting Webs

The Imperative

The UK MOD’s SDR sets out the need for a ‘Digital Targeting Web’ (DTW)

The Defence Industrial Strategy demands sovereign capability and SME-enriched supply chains. This evolving and scalable concept combines the requirements of both: re-diversifying the UK industrial base and, ultimately, contributing to prosperity and national security objectives

SCEPTRE has initiated a multi-role, private sector-led, Next Gen C2 technology stack, leveraging the most impactful emerging British technology at the speed of relevance for decisive advantage

Design Principles

Private-sector led

British sovereign technology designed and delivered by UK SMEs

Software-driven

Adaptable and scalable, built to be AI- and Quantum-ready

Effect-focused

Designed to deliver impact on the battlefield, not a science experiment

Modular and Open architecture

Compatible with in-service, future and allied systems

Lean

Simple, agile, resilient, robust risk tolerance and rapid (IOC within 6 months)

Initial Use Cases

Maritime C5ISR

Multi-domain predictive awareness and deterrence/interdiction of maritime threats

Air Defence/C-UAS

Domestic or deployed, maritime/land/multi-domain