Information dominance across all domains

Neckarsulm/Munich (Germany), 16. February 2026 – System House HENSOLDT and Schwarz Digits are entering into a strategic partnership to jointly advance the expansion of software-defined defence and sovereign, data-driven capabilities for the networked operational environment.

The aim of the collaboration is to provide fully integrated, sovereign and cloud-enabled solutions for Germany and other nations allied with Germany.

System house HENSOLDT and Helsing, two leading European defence technology companies, have agreed on a strategic partnership.

The aim of the collaboration is to jointly advance modern defence technologies within a sovereign German and European technology architecture in order to make a substantial contribution to securing Western democracies in times of massive geopolitical shifts.

Sensor solutions provider HENSOLDT has received a major order worth just under one billion euros. The customer is General Dynamics European Land Systems (GDELS). Over the next seven years, the company will equip the German Armed Forces' new Next Generation (NG) reconnaissance vehicle LUCHS 2 with state-of-the-art sensor technology and the CERETRON mission system. The order is considered the largest single order in this capability area in HENSOLDT's history.

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.