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UK’s Project SIREN has reached a breakthrough as they successfully demonstrate advanced radar signal processing and sensor fusion across air platforms.
The demonstration saw multiple radars integrate to produce real-time imagery of air and maritime environments, allowing for improved situational awareness and tracking in defensive situations.
SIREN, the UK’s System for Integrated Radar Early-response Networking project, seeks to support the nation’s emerging integrated air domain capabilities through collaboration with industry and academia partners.
Led by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory and funded by the chief scientific adviser’s research program, SIREN has progressed from early ideation stages into demonstration within 15 months.
“An important step was the fusion of data from distributed sensors using cloud-based integration, linking airborne systems with ground stations,” the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory said in a statement.
“This lays the foundation for future multiplatform sensing across defence and supports the UK’s emerging Digital Targeting Web, which enables rapid coordination from sensor to decision maker.”
The project’s strong focus on bridging the gap between industry and academia points to the changing nature of defence strategy, with the statement highlighting the “One Defence” mindset in the Strategic Defence Review 2025 as central to this project.
“This model clearly shows how collaboration between government, primes, SMEs and academia can harness best-of-breed capability, accelerating development through to exploitation and strengthening the UK defence enterprise,” the statement said.
