Information dominance across all domains

With the launch of the MDOcore software suite, HENSOLDT has reached a key milestone on the road to software-defined defence solutions. As the digital foundation for multi-domain operations (MDO), MDOcore enables the first-ever end-to-end, cross-domain integration of sensor- and effect-based systems. This speeds up decision-making processes in the field and significantly reduces the time from reconnaissance to effect – from the sensor network to the effector network.

HENSOLDT AG announces that Sven Heursch has taken up the newly created position of “Head of Software-Defined Defence & Digitalisation” with effect from 1 August 2025. In this role, Heursch will report directly to CEO Oliver Dörre.

At Paris Air Show 2025 in Le Bourget from 16 to 22 June 2025, sensor solutions provider HENSOLDT will be demonstrating how the concept of software-defined defence can significantly increase the performance of defence systems. This is based partly on sensor data fusion, one of HENSOLDT's core competences.

With the successful completion of the first release milestone for its CERETRON software, sensor solutions provider HENSOLDT is ushering in a new era in digitally networked sensor technology and automation.

As part of a comprehensive system concept, a software-defined defence runtime environment has been put into operation that seamlessly integrates containerized algorithms into ground-based systems. The system successfully controlled optronic reconnaissance sensors via the standardized HENSOLDT architecture and displayed video streams and algorithm results in near real time.

Supplemented by the company's own object recognition and object-based tracking in a GVA (Generic Vehicle Architecture) -compliant user interface, CERETRON is already demonstrating in this early phase its ability to map simple control sequences just as reliably as complex target detection and reconnaissance processes.

“CERETRON not only opens up significant technological advances for us, but also creates new perspectives for our business development and future orders,” says Christina Canitz, Head of Division Optronics at HENSOLDT.