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BAE Systems and Hadean renew military training collaboration

British scale-up, Hadean and BAE Systems, are set to expand their collaboration on the development of disruptive, next-generation digital technology for military training.

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Under a new enterprise licence, BAE Systems will be able to exploit state-of-the-art AI and Large Language Model (LLM) integrations of the Hadean Platform for Defence. This will help to deliver scalable, interoperable, and immersive collective training solutions to military personnel across services, domains and allies, whilst also allowing investigation of wider applications.

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The companies first signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at IT2EC 2022, agreeing to leverage Hadean’s robust spatial computing platform, as a vendor for novel software enabling technology, and explore new opportunities to provide bespoke simulation environments and scenarios.
 
From June 2022, Hadean showcased the ability of their cloud-native solutions to combine and expand various 2D, 3D, and Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) elements of ground-based group training. This involved collecting data and instantly streaming training results in real-time.
 
By March 2023, Hadean’s platform was integrated with the wider BAE Systems ecosystem of partners to deliver Project OdySSEy - a single synthetic environment for multi-domain training, brought together by a consortium of expert SMEs in data analytics, AR and VR.
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Hadean CEO, Craig Beddis, said: “Our collaboration with BAE Systems demonstrates the critical role agile and flexible SMEs like Hadean can play in unlocking possibilities for defence primes and accelerating the development of groundbreaking technologies. We’re excited to extend our close collaboration and work together to ensure our Armed Forces have the necessary training they need to meet the challenges of their operational environment, when they need, anywhere they need it - across services, allies, domains and classifications.”
 
Rob Merryweather, BAE Systems’ Technology Director, added: “Hadean brings its innovative cloud technology into the synthetic environments that we build to help train, wargame and simulate new capability across every military domain. By working with SMEs like Hadean, BAE Systems can help apply start-up technology in complex and highly secure military areas, which brings innovation to our customers more quickly whilst helping smaller companies work in the defence sector. We’re very much looking forward to renewing our collaboration.”
 
Hadean will also showcase its spatial computing platform at DSEI, every day for the duration of the show at 11:30 and 15:30.

 

 

 

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