Digital verification infrastructure and secure C2 added to the UK’s sovereign defence technology consortium
London, UK — March 2026 — Labrys Technologies has joined SCEPTRE, the sovereign UK SME technology stack delivering next-generation command and control capability to UK Defence.
SCEPTRE brings together best-in-class British technology companies — including Hadean, 2iC, Vizgard, Kraken, Evolve Dynamics, and ACUA Ocean — into an integrated, effect-focused C2 ecosystem and frontline capability aligned to the Strategic Defence Review’s Digital Targeting Web and the Defence Industrial Strategy’s mandate for sovereign, SME-enriched supply chains. The consortium was recently downselected onto the MoD’s Digital Decision Accelerators for Defence (DDAD) framework.
Labrys, a UK-founded, veteran-led company, contributes digital verification infrastructure, operationalised through Axiom — a secure mobile command and control platform. Axiom cryptographically verifies users, authenticates media at the point of capture, coordinates distributed teams, and enables secure payments across contested and degraded environments.
Within the SCEPTRE stack, Labrys addresses a foundational challenge: as networked and autonomous systems become central to how the UK operates, the ability to verify what is real — who sent it, where it came from, whether it has been altered — becomes the infrastructure layer upon which everything else depends. Sensors, effectors, AI-assisted decision-making, and coalition interoperability all rely on trusted data. Without digital verification at the base of the stack, speed and connectivity become liabilities rather than advantages.
Commenting on the announcement, August Lersten, CEO of Labrys Technologies, said “The SCEPTRE consortium represents exactly the kind of approach the UK needs — proven sovereign technology companies working together to deliver capability that those on the front line can actually use, at a pace that matters. The next generation of networked and autonomous systems will only be as effective as the verification infrastructure beneath them. Axiom exists to provide that layer — ensuring that when decisions are being made at speed, the information underpinning them is authenticated and the communications carrying them are secure. We’re proud to contribute to that mission.”
Read the announcement on Labrys’ site here: http://www.labrys.tech/news-and-blogs/labrys-technologies-joins-the-sceptre-sovereign-uk-technology-stack
About Labrys Technologies
Labrys Technologies is a UK-founded technology company building digital verification infrastructure for contested environments. The company’s platform, Axiom, provides cryptographic trust and secure command and control, operationalised through a mobile interface. Labrys is venture-backed, revenue-generating, and headquartered in the United Kingdom.
Website: labrys.tech | Contact: info@labrys.tech
About SCEPTRE
SCEPTRE is a sovereign UK SME technology stack delivering next-generation, modular command and control capability to UK Defence. The consortium brings together proven sovereign UK technology companies into an integrated, effect-focused ecosystem aligned to the Strategic Defence Review and Defence Industrial Strategy. SCEPTRE has been downselected onto the MoD’s DDAD framework.
Website: sceptre.org.uk