London, Wednesday 10th September – A collective of leading British SMEs has launched SCEPTRE, a next-generation, sovereign technology stack designed to anticipate and meet the evolving operational and strategic needs of UK defence, such as digital targeting. Developed at pace by industry leaders, SCEPTRE delivers a modular, lean and software-driven capability built on emerging British technologies, offering decisive advantage at the speed of relevance.
This launch responds directly to the strategic direction laid out in the MOD’s Strategic Defence Review and Defence Industrial Strategy, both of which call for greater sovereign capability and SME-enriched supply chains. SCEPTRE embodies these principles, showcasing how agile, best-in-class UK technology can drive battlefield dominance, strengthen the national industrial base, and better leverage the nation’s most valuable assets to grow the UK economy.
At its foundation, SCEPTRE represents a powerful collaboration, initially between five UK-based companies, each contributing cutting-edge capabilities to form an integrated, effect-focused C2 ecosystem:
- INTEGRATOR: 2iC provides the digital backbone, enabling seamless connectivity between users and their evolving mix of platforms, devices, and systems.
- SENSOR (AI Vision): Vizgard offers platform-agnostic, AI-powered vision technology that transforms traditional defence and security cameras into autonomous, mission-ready teammates.
- DECIDER: Hadean delivers the next generation of command and control software, designed for complex, multi-domain operations and enabled by AI and autonomous systems.
- EFFECTOR: Kraken Technology Group contributes cutting-edge littoral, surface, and subsurface capabilities to meet the challenges of current and future missions.
- SENSOR (UAS): Evolve Dynamics provides rugged, resilient ISTAR unmanned aerial systems, purpose-built to perform in the most demanding operational environments.
This collective effort marks the beginning of SCEPTRE’s journey. Designed for scale and continuous modularity, this initiative ensures resilience, adaptability, and enduring strategic relevance for the UK and its allies.
“SCEPTRE proves what’s possible when the UK’s most innovative SMEs come together with a shared purpose, to deliver sovereign, deployable capability at pace. This is a strategic response to the MOD’s call for a Digital Targeting Web, built by the best of British industry”
– Craig Beddis, CEO, Hadean
About Hadean
Hadean is a UK-based technology company, specialising in AI, simulation and spatial computing to provide the most accurate representation of the real-world. Hadean bridges physical and virtual worlds enabling defence forces, government agencies and businesses to plan, train and make faster, better decisions.
For more information on SCEPTRE, visit: https://sceptre.org.uk