Defence industry

Transforming complex data into meaningful information necessary for informed, mission-critical decision making.

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Supporting national security

Software, systems and data for military planning and operations

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Hexagon's defence solutions – including mapping, C2, ISR, C4ISR, C5ISR and C6ISR, assured positioning and improved manufacturing – support mission-critical military operations and communications, real-time situational awareness and advanced weapons systems.

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Explore capabilities

  • Cities and nations
  • Autonomous mobility
  • Defence
  • Industrial facilities
  • Infrastructure
  • Manufacturing
Cities and nations
Autonomous mobility
Mission-critical operations depend on assured positioning, navigation and timing (APNT) information. Explore how Hexagon delivers APNT technologies that work in GNSS contested environments, including anti-jam, anti-spoof, situational awareness and more.

Deployment solutions

Deploying autonomous solutions that enable customers to quickly scale from prototype R&D and testing phases to full production in a variety of emerging and fast-paced market segments.

Defence
Ensuring national security presents many complex challenges. Explore how Hexagon helps militaries improve defence strategies, operations and tactics through better threat detection, situational awareness and digital battlefield technologies.

Administration solutions

Build safe and resilient bases and facilities with scalable computer-aided dispatch (CAD), security software and reality capture systems, including surveillance sensors.

C4ISR solutions

Deploy high-performance visualisation and analysis applications for C4ISR across air, land, sea and joint battlefield operations and command centre strategies.

Mapping solutions

Leverage end-to-end mapping solutions that improve workflows, with integrated capabilities for geospatial data collection and management, map production and information-sharing.

Industrial facilities
Infrastructure
Manufacturing
From military ground vehicles, aircraft and naval vessels to communications and electronic equipment and beyond, defence contractors face a huge challenge to meet global demand. See how Hexagon’s smart manufacturing solutions are helping defence manufacturers deliver military equipment on time and within budget.

Design and engineering phase

With Hexagon’s innovations in manufacturing technology, users can digitally simulate and optimise product design and engineering to ensure component manufacturability, production productivity and output quality.

Production phase

Maintain a digital thread through production, optimise machine tools, measure environmental variances and prevent downtime with predictive data analyses.

Inspection phase

Automate and digitalise quality measurement with our world-leading metrology hardware and software, creating a bridge between the real and digital worlds.

Digital transformation

Deploy Hexagon’s sensor software systems to transform siloed and disconnected processes into an integrated, data-driven manufacturing ecosystem that captures and creates value across the product lifecycle, enabling new business models and automating workflows to become increasingly autonomous, efficient and sustainable.