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Airwayz Netherlands BV has received an official SAPIENT Interoperability Certificate from the NATO Communications and Information Agency following the successful deployment of its OVERWATCH airspace governance platform at the NATO Technical Interoperability Exercise 2026.
The exercise, which took place from May 11–22, 2026, at NLR Marknesse in the Netherlands, focused on countering Class I Unmanned Aircraft Systems. During the event’s performance challenge, the Airwayz command and control platform was selected to lead Team BRAVO against a simulated Red UAS threat. Team BRAVO competed alongside three other industry-led groups, designated ALPHA, CHARLIE, and DELTA, which were all presented with the identical Red Air challenge.
Team BRAVO brought together various counter-UAS systems from 13 different countries, integrating multiple technological capabilities including radar, acoustic sensors, passive radio frequency, jammers, interceptors, and remote identification. Operating as the top-level command and control node, OVERWATCH consolidated all of these disparate sensor inputs into a single Recognised Air Picture. The platform executed SAPIENT Tasking to command effectors directly, a capability achieved by only a handful of command and control systems at the exercise, and managed the full sensor-effector picture across the entire team. To ensure operational resilience, the entire system deployment ran on-premise over a standalone local area network with zero external internet dependency.
At the conclusion of the event, the NATO Communications and Information Agency officially certified the platform’s successful connectivity with 31 Fusion nodes and 15 Edge nodes under STANREC 4869.
Brigadier General (Res.) Yaron Rosen, Executive Chairman of Airwayz, said, “What TIE26 confirmed in the field is something we have known since building OVERWATCH: the scale and speed of coordinated drone threats in a contested airspace exceeds what any human-led C2 can process alone. Connecting with 31 Fusion and 15 Edge nodes — systems from 13 countries, never integrated before, through a single C2 governance layer, under a real commander, against a real threat: that is the standard NATO needs. We are proud to have met it, and ready to work with every nation and system that was part of TIE26.”
The OVERWATCH platform is already operationally deployed across several high-security environments, including an integration into a nation-wide unmanned traffic management program spanning multiple international airports. It serves as the System of Record for airspace governance in active conflict environments and has been validated through a live performance drill for venue and fan zone protection at the FIFA World Cup. Additionally, the platform has been utilized for three and a half years at strategic ports including Rotterdam, where it handles more than 80 daily vendors with zero operational shutdowns, as well as the port of Ashdod.
Participation in TIE26 serves as the qualification phase for Baltic Trust 2026, a live operational field exercise scheduled to take place in Latvia in August 2026. The exercise marks an important milestone in the ongoing partnership between Airwayz and the NATO Communications and Information Agency, paving the way for continued collaboration with allied nations and industry partners in future counter-UAS exercises.
Airwayz will be exhibiting at Eurosatory, 15-19 June, Paris, Hall 6, BC-340.
