Arkeus and Tanglewood Group announce UK manufacturing partnership

Melbourne-based Arkeus, a leader in wide-area Hyperspectral Autonomous Perception systems, has announced an expanded strategic partnership with British company Tanglewood Group Ltd. and the establishment of a joint manufacturing, engineering and customer support capability in Malvern, United Kingdom.

Earlier this year Arkeus raised $25 million in series A funding for its Hyper Spectral Optical Radar, or HSOR, designed specifically for AI. The funding is intended to go towards establishing manufacturing facilities in Australia and the USA, in Virginia.

The partnership expands Arkeus’ presence in Europe, building on its Australian foundation and recent expansion into the United States. Together, these locations provide customers in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States with greater access to Arkeus’ AI-powered sensing systems, including the HSOR.

Arkeus’ flagship Warden HSOR sensor combines wide-area hyperspectral sensing, edge AI and autonomous data exploitation to detect, recognise and track objects across land, sea and littoral environments. Designed for Tactical Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (TUAS), Warden operates day and night and through challenging and degraded visual environments while remaining 100 percent passive.

The Malvern facility will also provide NATO and European Union customers with localised manufacturing, engineering, integration and through-life support for Arkeus’ autonomous perception solutions, including its flagship Warden wide-area hyperspectral sensing system.

The new capability reflects a shared commitment by Arkeus and Tanglewood to shorten response times, accelerate integration and deployment, strengthen supply-chain resilience, and provide customers with a world-class experience throughout the lifecycle of their systems, say the two companies in a media release.

“Our customers operate in environments where capability, reliability and speed matter,” said Simon Olsen, CEO and Co-Founder of Arkeus. “Our partnership with Tanglewood allows us to put world-class engineering and support closer to our NATO and European customers.”

Located in Malvern, one of the United Kingdom’s established centres for defence, cyber and advanced technology, the joint capability will provide a regional foundation for Arkeus manufacturing, engineering, integration, sustainment and customer support activities. The facility will also enable closer collaboration with European platform partners and end users as Arkeus expands deployment of its autonomous perception technologies across air, land and maritime applications.

By processing and exploiting sensor data at the edge, Warden reduces the burden placed on operators and communications networks and accelerates the delivery of mission-relevant intelligence to decision makers. The system is designed to enable operators to find what matters across large areas without requiring constant human attention to search imagery.

“Providing end users with fully supported equipment is key to the success of operations. With this partnership we are now able to provide critical support close to the UK, European and wider NATO customers enabling the success of these operations,” said Richard Glyn-Jones, Co-Founder and Director, Tanglewood Group Ltd.