► WB GROUP and Hexagon sign Memorandum of Cooperation
WB GROUP, Poland’s largest private defence company, and Hexagon’s Aerospace & Defence Division have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to integrate Hexagon’s assured positioning, navigation and timing technologies onto WB GROUP’s unmanned aerial platforms. The agreement was signed at CANSEC in Ottawa, Canada’s premier defence and security exhibition.
The partnership pairs WB GROUP’s combat proven unmanned aerial vehicles and loitering munitions with Hexagon’s GNSS anti-jam and anti-spoofing technology, including the GAJT family of controlled reception pattern antennas, to deliver systems that hold their navigation and timing accuracy in the contested, jamming-heavy conditions that now define the modern battlefield.
Under the agreement, the companies will integrate selected Hexagon anti-jam solutions onto WB GROUP platforms including the FT-5 and the FlyEye unmanned aerial systems, and the Warmate 5 loitering munition. WB GROUP will act as platform owner, integrator and prime, with Hexagon as supplier and integration partner.
The companies will then demonstrate the integrated systems to Canadian end users, including the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces, and pursue opportunities together in markets worldwide. The agreement is WB GROUP’s first formal step toward an industrial presence in Canada, and it builds directly on the momentum between the two nations.
On 26 May, Polish Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz and Canadian Defence Minister David McGuinty signed a Letter of Intent in Ottawa committing both countries to closer defence industrial cooperation under the European Union’s Security Action for Europe (SAFE) programme.
The Polish minister named WB GROUP UAVs as equipment to be sold to Canada, which has become the first country to gain preferential access to SAFE financed procurement. The WB GROUP-Hexagon agreement turns that government level intent into concrete industrial cooperation, creating a joint Polish-Canadian capability for Canada and for export customers.
“Canada is a market where we intend to build, not simply sell. Partnering with Hexagon gives our platforms the assured navigation operators need when satellite signals are under attack, and it lets us develop genuine Polish-Canadian solutions for Canada and the wider world”, said Piotr Wojceiechowski, President of WB GROUP.
The cooperation responds to one of the clearest lessons of recent conflict, that resilient positioning, navigation and timing increasingly decides whether an unmanned system completes its mission. Both companies will now define the technical interfaces, conduct integration testing and plan in-country trials in Canada, with definitive agreements to follow.
