Rowden Technologies and Isembard have today 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 South West, 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.”