Defence Technologies, the group created through the partnership between Defence Holdings and Whitespace, has launched Project Ixian - a sovereign AI tool designed to detect, defend, and disrupt hostile information operations.
In today’s world, information is as critical a frontier as air, land, sea or cyber, and Ixian has been purpose-built to strengthen resilience in that contested space.
What is Project Ixian
- Developed jointly by Defence Holdings’ engineers and Whitespace’s specialist teams, Ixian combines AI-native cloud infrastructure with frontline operational insight.
- Built with hyperscale capability “from launch”, through integration with one of the global technology giants, ensuring robust performance under real-world pressure.
- Developed in collaboration with UK military practitioners, meaning its features, workflows, and threat models aren’t theoretical - they’re informed by boots on the ground.
Why it matters
- Information warfare, including disinformation, narrative manipulation, digital sabotage and cyber-enabled campaigns - is no longer a secondary concern. It’s now central to national security, as recognised in the UK Strategic Defence Review 2025.
- Project Ixian delivers sovereign resilience: a tool engineered to operate under UK control, with trusted, safeguarded data, and resilient infrastructure.
- It comes at a moment when hybrid threats are increasingly blurred - what begins online very often ends in physical disruption. When every message, meme, or manipulated signal can have real-world consequences, you need tools that can keep up.
What’s next
Project Ixian will move into its first commercial phase this December, with delivery to partners and clients already underway. As the first product from Defence Technologies, this marks the start of a sustained programme of capability launches designed to give the UK and its allies trusted, sovereign tools to meet the challenges of modern information warfare.
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