Rheinmetall and Vantor Plan a Sovereign Spatial Intelligence Joint Venture for Germany (opens in new tab)

Rheinmetall and Vantor signed a memorandum of understanding on 18 June to form a joint venture in Germany, pairing the German systems house’s command-and-control architecture with Vantor’s satellite constellation and spatial-intelligence software. The stated goal is a sovereign multi-domain intelligence platform for the Bundeswehr and, in time, for armed forces across Europe. The substance of the deal is less about new sensors than about who owns the layer that turns sensor data into targetab...