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.
