Thales and Netcompany have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, that aims to further explore future business opportunities within European cybersecurity, AI and defence domains.
Thales, a global technology leader in aerospace, defence, cyber and digital, and Netcompany have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to develop areas of cooperation in cybersecurity, AI and defence domains, serving European customers in both public and private sectors.
Specifically, the two companies have identified six initial priority areas for possible joint business development: Sovereign AI in defence, biometrics, cybersecurity, critical infrastructure protection, security operation centres, and payment and banking services.
Through this MoU, Netcompany, and Thales aim to jointly address the growing demand for European solutions that are technologically advanced, AI-ready, and fully sovereign – an increasingly decisive factor when selecting digital partners for mission-critical operations.
Thales will draw on Netcompany’s deep experience in large-scale public sector digital transformation and its EU-based data centre infrastructure, some of which are in Denmark, to deliver solutions where both capability and sovereignty are guaranteed end-to-end. Netcompany will benefit from Thales’ premium expertise and large portfolio within the Cyber, AI and Defence domains.
»At Thales, we are dedicated to fostering robust industrial collaborations and trusted local partnerships to serve the best interests of our European customers. Netcompany brings an impressive track record in delivering mission-critical, digitally sovereign solutions for European critical infrastructure. With this MoU we will explore the combination of Thales’ world-class technologies and AI expertise with Netcompany’s AI sovereignty capabilities, to offer future highly attractive solutions which addresses key needs in the market.« says Martin Soegaard, CEO and Country Director Thales Denmark.
»Europe is operating in a fundamentally more demanding security environment. Cyberattacks, sabotage and hybrid threats are increasing, while strategic dependencies are becoming a security risk in their own right. Europe needs defence technology it can trust, control and deploy at speed. By combining Netcompany’s sovereign, AI-enabled platforms with Thales’ defence and security expertise, we want to strengthen Europe’s ability to build and operate critical capabilities on European technology.« says Charlotte Wetche, Director Defence and Resilience, Netcompany.
The two companies have already begun exploring sovereign AI in defence together, looking at how their capabilities could be combined going forward. Thales will bring its AI accelerator for critical systems, cortAIx, to the partnership. cortAIx brings together 800 experts and engineers across five hubs worldwide to develop and industrialise explainable and ethical AI solutions for defence and beyond, through its Sensors, Factory and Labs framework.
Netcompany complement this with its agentic AI framework, Feniks AI, to the partnership. Feniks AI is purpose-built for complex, regulated enterprise and government environments, combining AI-accelerated software delivery with full data sovereignty and European infrastructure control.
The combination of cortAIx and Feniks AI will allow the two companies to further explore how complementary sovereign AI capabilities can be brought together for complex defence and government applications.
