Together the companies are seeking to reduce data transfer and processing times, allowing for quicker decision-making. 

Helsing’s AI-enabled software will be complemented with Systematic’s SitaWare battle management suite to provide an integrated command and control recce strike solution. 

Announced at DSEI UK 2025, the partnership involves specifically integrating Systematic’s SitaWare Headquarters and SitaWare Insight – its decision-support tools –with Helsing’s Altra autonomous drone mission management system, a Systematic spokesperson told DSEI Gateway. 

Explaining this, the spokesperson said it allows commanders to have “full situational awareness”, process the intelligence delivered by surveillance assets (such as other drones), direct the mission of the effectors, and then process the battle damage assessment. Helsing’s software essentially controls flight of the drones, they added.  

This will allow the faster exchange of data between drones, such as Helsing’s HX-2 strike drone.  

SitaWare – which uses software tocreate a common operating picture – is in use by 50 militaries worldwide, with 19 of these based in Europe.  

Systematic said in a statement that the partnership will deliver a find, fix, finish, exploit, analyse, disseminate (F3EAD) capability “at unprecedented speed and scale”. 

This was reaffirmed by the spokesperson, telling DSEI Gateway that the Systematic capability can deliver a decision within three to six seconds, dependant on the user. 

The agreement positions both companies to target European buyers with “sovereign capabilities in Europe, for Europe”, Systematic said.  

When asked to clarify what this means in practice, the spokesperson explained that “we are partnering for European sovereignty” with solutions made in Europe, and “as European countries, we adhere to European guidelines”, allowing their defence clients to hold exclusive access to their own data. 

It comes as both companies seek to capitalise upon moves to bolster the European defence industrial base, both at national and on EU and NATO levels.