Adarga awarded contract from Improbable to support continued development of Single Synthetic Environment Technology Demonstrator for UK Strategic Command

Adarga today announced that it is proud to have been awarded a contract from UK technology company Improbable Defence business, to integrate its technology to support the second year of building a Single Synthetic Environment (SSE) Technology Demonstrator for UK Strategic Command, the major organisation of the British Armed Forces responsible for leading integration across all domains - cyber, space, maritime, land and air.

Through its ground-breaking capability for reading and understanding multiple, diverse data sources, Adarga supports multi-domain, decision support and mission planning. The highly granular detail provided by Adarga's Event Detection feature supports the SSE Technology Demonstrator by identifying and locating mission critical events in real time.

The SSE being jointly developed by Improbable and UK Strategic Command delivers a simulation demonstrator which models the conventional physical domains (maritime, land and air) as well as aspects of space, cyber and the information environment. The simulation brings together models of physical elements such as weather, terrain and infrastructure networks with more abstract systems such as social, political and economic ones; and enables the exploration of the causal relationships and interdependencies between them.

The SSE combines inputs from a diverse ecosystem of other technical applications, models and data (some of them powered by cutting-edge data analytics and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning technologies) supplied by ecosystem partners from across industry, government and academia, all integrated and hosted on Improbable’s synthetic environment platform.

The SSE has the potential to enable decision-makers at every level – from political to tactical – to test and rehearse policy choices and military courses of action in a rigorous, data-driven way. This will allow them to assess probable consequences with a far greater and more data-driven level of confidence than has previously been achievable.

The second year will see the development and expansion of this prototype SSE into a cloud-based tool which will enhance users’ planning and decision-making.

Adarga technology to be used in the Single Synthetic Environment Technology Demonstrator.

Adarga's AI Knowledge platform fuses and analyses data from millions of diverse sources to support multi-domain decision support and mission planning. The highly granular detail provided by Adarga's Event Detection feature helps to identify and locate mission critical events in real time, enabling more accurate modelling and scenario planning. Adarga’s live events feed helps users to detect unfolding situations and identify emerging risks, rapidly understand key trends and prioritise responses with greater speed and confidence.

Rob Bassett Cross, CEO of Adarga, commented:

At a time of considerable global uncertainty, the ability to support our customers need to translate vast quantities of data into actionable information has never been more important. We are delighted to be working with Improbable Defence and building the partner ecosystem of an unrivalled, state-of-the-art planning and decision support platform.

Richard Warner, Director of Partnerships, Improbable, commented:

The Single Synthetic Environment is a unique and powerful capability with the potential to transform how Britain's Armed Forces train, plan and operate. It is also a fantastic opportunity to create hundreds of skilled jobs in the UK technology and defence sectors, and establish home-grown expertise in a capability with such enormous potential. We're delighted to welcome Adarga as a partner in the second year of the project, and to add the AI Knowledge Platform to the growing ecosystem supporting the SSE.

Major General Jim Morris, Director of Joint Warfare at UK Strategic Command, commented:

Open platforms are a key driver of competition and innovation, and the ability of this Single Synthetic Environment to combine inputs from partners in a wider ecosystem points the way to a future which delivers competitive advantage for UK Defence.