Antillion highlights the planning, UK-based production, and customer engagement supporting its delivery of PACE AIR hardware to the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD).
The delivery was completed on schedule and within the agreed cost despite pressure across global technology supply chains and fluctuating lead times.
As a UK sovereign SME, Antillion designs its systems in-house, works with local manufacturing partners, and completes assembly in the UK. The company’s use of British suppliers is intended to support resilience, maintain a transparently audited supply chain, and enable close collaboration with its partners.
Although local sourcing does not remove wider market pressures, Antillion’s established supplier relationships allow cost and availability challenges to be addressed before they affect the customer.
Following completion of the project, Antillion welcomed members of the MoD team to its Westcott facility. The visit provided an opportunity to review the completed systems, recognize the contributions of Antillion personnel and UK supply-chain partners, and examine the processes supporting the delivery.
These processes included manufacturing, quality assurance, and FAKTRI, Antillion’s in-house automated build and deployment platform, which helps support repeatable, high-quality outcomes.
The engagement also enabled direct discussions between MoD representatives and Antillion’s engineering team. These conversations covered customer use cases, feedback, operational challenges, and possible future requirements.
They also highlighted connections between Antillion’s work and wider defense frameworks and initiatives, including ASGARD, Sense Defence Effect, Zodiac, CWIX, and Federated Mission Networking. Across these areas, the central challenge is delivering assured, deployable compute at the point of need while supporting interoperability with allies.
Jon Sillito, SO1 Coalition within National Armaments Digital & Data (NA-D&D), said, “May I also say that to deliver the quantity of equipment that Antillion did, on time and within cost, was seriously impressive, noting the pressures of rising IT costs and within the context of acute supply chain issues. This was to support carefully programmed army outputs, where delays to delivery would have meant delaying or not conducting critical force validation activity to be held at readiness for operations.”
Antillion views successful delivery as the foundation for continued customer engagement. Ongoing communication helps its engineers understand customer requirements, consider feedback, and assess how the company may support future MoD needs.
