Hadean announces three contract awards

A Hadean demonstration on 30 September 2024 of its new AI-enhanced capability designed to improve blended live-virtual training for the British Armed Forces. (Hadean)

UK synthetic environment and artificial intelligence (AI) specialist firm Hadean announced three contract awards on 4 December to coincide with the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) 2024, held in Orlando in December, where it was showcasing its technology.

The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has awarded Hadean an Enterprise Agreement worth up to GBP20 million (USD25.5 million) to help develop synthetic and AI capabilities with MoD entities. According to the MoD award notice, “Hadean provides an AI-powered spatial computing platform. Hadean's solutions include digital twins, synthetic environments, and creator-focused community experiences. Defence Digital have recognised a need to test that demand and the capabilities of Hadean through this research and development enterprise agreement.”

Hadean is also partnering with Deloitte to support the development of NATO's Common Synthetic Environment (CSE) as part of the NATO Modelling and Simulation Group's capability development initiatives. The CSE is intended to offer a multinational mixed reality platform for training and decision making for members of the alliance.

Hadean has also signed a commercialisation agreement with BAE Systems to increase the scale of Project OdySSEy deployments. In its press release Hadean said, “Project OdySSEy surpasses traditional synthetic training by providing users with a real-time synthetic environment, directly reflecting real-world operations. The programme empowers ... training scenarios across land, air, sea, space, and cyber domains simultaneously, allowing for more realistic and accurate training, planning, and decision making across all domains. Hadean will be providing the cognitive layer, using its machine learning to develop real-time pattern-of-life simulations.”