Defence

The Next Generation Platform for Defence

Enabling Command, Operations and Training in a Complex World

New Threats and the Future of Warfare

Change to the Character of Conflict is an inevitability

The emergence and rapid proliferation of new technologies is drastically changing the landscape of modern warfare.

As global tensions rise, governments across Europe, North America and Asia are investing in best-in class, innovative technologies to safeguard national security.

The main drivers of increased of global defence spending include:

Traditional threats to NATO and western alliances
The rise of new military powers and tensions
The rapid adoption of commercial technologies driving innovation in training and operations
The need for globally coordinated responses to international threats
The increasing complexity of battlespaces and importance of tightly coordinated multi-domain operations

The future of Defence capability is driven by Digital Transformation.

The following are examples of current UK, US and NATO commitments to partner with industry and exploit next-generation technology to strengthen operational effectiveness:

Collective Training Transformation Programme (CTTP) with its close links to the Defence Synthetic Environment Platform (DSEP).
Maritime Command and Staff Trainer (MCAST).
Future Combat Air Systems (FCAS).
Digital Strategy for Defence and Defence Digital Twin Study in the UK.
NATO Modelling and Simulation Strategy, M&S Centre of Excellence, and Mission Training through Distributed Simulations (MTDS) will continue to drive common architecture and standardisation.
US Digitization Modernization Program and the Synthetic Training Environment Cross-Functional Team.

These initiatives seek to fund technological innovation that can deliver powerful and flexible solutions for simulating real world environments and managing complex data at scale, to be used both for collective synthetic training as well as for mission-critical situational awareness and decision support capabilities during operations.

Achieving Operational Effectiveness presents many challenges…

Achieving Operational Effectiveness presents many challenges

Why Distributed Computing

How Hadean solves challenges in Defence

The Situation Today

Complexity in an Era of Constant Competition

Situation Today

Complexity in an era of constant competition

Enabling the Next Generation of Defence Capabilities

Hadean: The Next Generation Platform for Defence

Enabling Digital Transformation, Information Superiority and Open Architecture

Our Capabilities and Outcomes

Synthetic Environments

Enable and power multi-domain simulations with millions of entities and distributed participants
Simulate the scale, complexity and fidelity of real-world scenarios

Enhanced Situational Awareness

Optimise and integrate multiple live datasets across a vast and distributed network to form a cohesive and accurate operating picture
Empower personnel at all levels to command, operate and train with data-driven insight

Digital Twins

Enable accurate, vast scale Digital Twins to represent live data, systems, capabilities and environments
More effective and efficient through-life systems and capabilities management

Read more about Digital Twins

Decision Support

Rapidly simulate and explore unlimited what-if scenarios by leveraging the Hadean Platform’s smart scaling capabilities
Confident predictions and a better understanding of risk to support logistic planning and decision making

Read more about Decision Support

Who are we?

Delivering unparalleled distributed computing and vast synthetic environments

Hadean is a distributed computing company that has designed and built a distributed cloud platform that enables unlimited scalability and reliability in distributed cloud environments.

By leveraging the platform and its underlying smart scaling capabilities we are able to partner with Defence System Integrators and military clients across the world to achieve business and operational efficiency through the power of distributed computing.

Hadean’s next-generation Platform for Defence enables command, operations and training in a truly complex world.

Defence Partnerships

Working with Hadean

CAE

City Scale Synthetic Environment with 2M entities

“The complimentary skills and resources of CAE and Hadean will allow both parties to accelerate together towards these newly evolving applications, helping our customers realise their ambition to plan, train and rehearse quickly and efficiently in a complex and scalable digital environment of our making.”

Andrew Naismith, Managing Director, Defence and Security, CAE (UK)

Challenge

Desire to simulate an entire city, but previous synthetic environments restricted to a few thousand entities
Number of users connected into simulations restricted to 50-100
Need to include activity and lifestyle routines of entities and integrate Unreal Engine’s behaviour trees feature

Solution

Area was divided into a grid of cells, with each cell assigned a worker and each worker given an individual engine
Hadean Simulate handling cell boundary hand over comms
Hadean Connect given responsibility for calculating the relevant actors to send to each connected client
Simulation logic e.g. behaviour, terrain and physics all supported within UE instances

Outcome

Supported 2.2 million continuously active, AI controlled entities in a dense urban environment composed primarily of humans and ground vehicles and a smaller number of aerial vehicles
Supported a minimum of 300 independent, simultaneously connected and interactive actors
Insightful training operation completed

Cervus

Enhanced decision support for UK MoD's
Defence and Security Accelerator

“Cervus are immensely proud to be working with our partners at Hadean… Hadean’s distributed computing platform will significantly reduce the associated costs and increase the speed of wargaming and experimentation.”

Alan Roan, MD of Cervus.ai

Challenge

Incumbent decision making processes with defence are currently inefficient
Deliberations between experts are time-consuming, expensive, and risk being derailed by subjective viewpoints rather than based on fact
Organisations that are slow to action can miss key deadlines and risk serious negative outcomes

Solution

Simulations of different scenarios are parallelised for speed, with Hadean Orchestrate delivering the computational power
Invariant scaling across any on premise, cloud or edge environments
Simulations are realised on the front end using Cervus’ AI analytics engine
Optimum decisions are then derived from results

Outcome

Developing and testing innovative solutions to pressing strategic issues, capability gaps and operational optimisation
Injecting agility into the decision cycle, continuous testing of concepts, and the rapid development of capabilities and doctrine
Enabling effective outcomes to avoid technology shock, counter adversaries and reduce operational risk

BAE

Collective training solutions

"By combining Hadean’s computing expertise with that with BAE Systems' intimate understanding of our customer built on decades of working with the world's leading militaries, we believe we can prove the benefits of this technology and deliver real advantage to training systems of the future. The battlespace our customers are operating in is changing rapidly so we need to change with it and by partnering with agile companies like Hadean and others we can meet this challenge.”

Andy Kendall, Director of Training Strategy, BAE Systems - Air

Challenge

Desire for a larger scale synthetic environment that all domains can plug in and train collectively, providing also decision support and situational awareness
Want for digitalisation to enhance fidelity, immersion and sustainability of training
Rapidly changing and increasingly complex battle spaces demanding an agile response that utilises all emerging technologies

Solution

Initial proof of concept using Hadean’s technology to create a large scale synthetic environment
Hadean platform used to parallelise simulations increasing the speed of scenario analysis
Compute power allocated dynamically to where in the simulation it is needed most, ensuring platform performance

Outcome

Enabled complex collective training scenarios in a secure environment
Leveraged data analytics and insights to improve the training capability and output
Provided the computational foundation of a future training and planning platform that makes use of emerging technologies, offering governments a significant step towards a digital backbone

Cloud Distributed Simulation Pathfinder for CTTP

“The Collective Training Transformation Programme (CTTP) is working with Army Innovation and Hadean to exploit new technology in the Future Collective Training System. This demonstration will deliver outputs that showcase how the technology from the commercial games industry could support transformation of training with the introduction of a Synthetic Environment Platform.”

Senior Responsible Owner (SRO), CTTP, UK Ministry of Defence, Mike Cooper

Working with the following:

Challenge

CTTP involves the discovery and testing of future collective training solutions with the view that legacy technology is restricting the ability for multiple domains to come together in single environments
The UK MoD's Defence Synthetic Environment Platform (DSEP) has the goal of attaining grater scale and cross-domain functionality in these simulations

Solution

Large scale synthetic environment made up of cells created, containing millions of entities
Hadean Platform scales computational demand dynamically, enabling synthetic environment to grow in size and complexity indefinitely

Outcome

Different 2D, 3D and Live, Virtual and Constructive (LVC) elements of training environments into one immersive simulation
New areas of collective training where teams in disparate live environments can operate remotely alongside troops exercising in the virtual world
Integration with Bohemia Interactive's VBS4 for digital assets, while also using live simulation system data

Additional Resources

Transforming Collective Training

Overcome technical limitations in multi-domain synthetic training environments

Synthetic environments built on the Hadean Platform can support millions of entities and thousands of concurrent users in a single high-fidelity simulation environment.

Our scalable, interoperable, and secure distributed architecture enables dynamic customisation, limitless integration of real-world data, and agile deployment to geographically disparate clients, while dramatically decreasing DevOps complexity.

Click below to learn how Hadean is powering multi-domain synthetic training environments for the likes of CAE, BAE, and the British Army.

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