Danish defence company Terma joins NATO ground surveillance expansion programme

Danish defence company Terma has joined a cooperation initiative under NATO's Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) Expansion Programme, the company said in a statement issued during the NATO summit in Turkey.

Terma will contribute artificial intelligence models for automated target recognition and target identification as part of the programme.

- The challenge is to transform vast amounts of data into operational intelligence quickly enough for military decision-makers to act, Steen Hommel, Terma's vice president, said in the statement.

Terma is working alongside other Western defence companies participating in the AGS Expansion Programme.

Key programme in the Arctic

The programme is intended to strengthen NATO's intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities, including enabling persistent surveillance in the Arctic, the Baltic Sea and other strategically important regions.

It aims to improve the integration of sensors, platforms and intelligence products across operational domains.

Terma already supplies several AI-enabled capabilities supporting the automated exploitation of surveillance data.

Through its participation in the AGS Expansion Programme, the company said it aims to strengthen the alliance's ability to process large volumes of sensor data more efficiently and support faster, better-informed operational decision-making.

- At Terma, we develop AI-enabled mission software and data exploitation capabilities that help connect sensors, platforms and decision-makers, Hommel said.

- By contributing automated intelligence exploitation and sovereign AI training capabilities to the AGS collaboration, we are helping NATO transform surveillance data into operational value.