Rowden Technologies and Isembard have announced a joint effort to scale sovereign UK manufacturing of advanced sensing systems for national security.
The collaboration forms part of Rowden’s multi-million-pound investment in expanding sovereign production of advanced sensing systems. Over the next 12 months, Rowden will create around 100 highly skilled roles across the Southwest, with Isambard manufacturing precision-engineered components to support Rowden’s growing Magos product line – a family of sensing systems developed for use across government, defence, and national infrastructure.
Bringing together Rowden’s system design, integration, and in-house manufacturing expertise with Isembard’s MasonOS-driven, software-defined production facilities, the collaboration strengthens the UK’s industrial base and export competitiveness.
It links advanced system design directly to industrial output – demonstrating how British engineering can deliver frontier technologies with a clear path to export at pace and scale, competitively and securely.
The engineering initiative integrates Rowden’s sensing systems – including RF decoy platforms for tactical deception operations – with Isambard’s software-defined factories, capable of rapidly prototyping, qualifying, and mass-producing complex metallic assemblies, heat sinks, and CNC components for sensing payloads. This enables a faster transition from low-volume prototyping for early trials to high-volume production for operational deployment.
Applying modern engineering and manufacturing techniques proven in the commercial sector to mission-critical technology development, the approach compresses traditional industrial timelines. It allows the UK to deliver scalable, modular sensing and deception systems efficiently, cost-effectively, and entirely within a sovereign supply chain.
It also lays the foundation for assured UK variants of next-generation sensing systems – a critical subsector designed, built, and qualified domestically to meet national and allied mission needs.
Jake Reynolds, VP Product, Rowden Technologies: “This marks an exciting expansion of our supply chain, built around shared engineering ambition and outstanding British engineering talent. Working with innovative businesses like Isembard, we’re creating a production base capable of delivering assured UK variants of critical sensing systems – a real step forward in sovereign capability that can be exported and deliver meaningful operational value to users in Europe and beyond.”
Andrew Kramer, Strategic Deployments, Isembard: “Industrial strength is national strength. By combining MasonOS-driven factories with Rowden’s world-class mission systems, we can turn years into days and prototypes into production – here in Britain. This partnership delivers sovereign capacity now and lays the foundation to export British engineering at scale.”
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