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Defence-adjacent (civil dual-use)
Civil sensing only. Nothing else.

Lawful dual-use civil sensing only: northern infrastructure, maritime awareness and critical-infrastructure resilience. No weapons, no positioning as a defence contractor.

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Defence-adjacent (civil dual-use): on the ground

  1. Defence-adjacent (civil dual-use)

    Civil sensing only. Nothing else.

    Lawful dual-use civil sensing only: northern infrastructure, maritime awareness and critical-infrastructure resilience. No weapons, no positioning as a defence contractor.

  2. Arctic station

    Arctic station

    A station on the ice, self-powered and connected only by satellite.

  3. Arctic station

    Arctic station

    The low-orbit terminal is the only backhaul. A flat-panel terminal to a low-orbit constellation: the station’s only backhaul.

  4. Arctic station

    Arctic station

    A geodetic monument measures ice and crustal motion. A geodetic monument for ice and crustal motion, and the station’s time.

  5. Proof

    What buyers ask to see.

    • Controlled-goods registration
    • Security screening and ownership status
    • Where they apply
    • Are registry-gated claims and are not stated on this site

01How it works

A station joins, then the work is shared.

One station runs the protocol from first contact to publishing; the graph beside it shows how this sector’s use cases share kit and products.

Station console

State

  1. Unenrolled 00:00.0
  2. Discovered
  3. Attesting
  4. Identity issued
  5. Policy bound
  6. Plan staged
  7. Local ready
  8. Degraded

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Simulated station: the values are generated in your browser to show the order of events. They are not measurements.

Defence-adjacent (civil dual-use): use cases, kit and products

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Northern civil observatory

Aws reference

Gnss geodetic

Magnetometer

Satcom dish

Generator

Fuel cell

Shelter

Weather and space-weather observations

Search-and-rescue support data

Defence-adjacent (civil dual-use): use cases, kit and products: functions in lifecycle order, and the objects they move. Each object is linked from the function that moves it first to every later function that moves it. The table view lists them all.

Use cases run left to right. Each piece of kit and each data product hangs at the use case that needs it earliest; its edges carry it to every later use case that uses it too.

02Deployment scenarios

How the grid is deployed here.

From the sector research, each with the observatory template that serves it where one exists.

Hardware & power, Sensors & instruments

Civil observatories supporting northern infrastructure

Weather and ionospheric observatories, communications and power at remote sites that surveillance programmes may share.Protocol & Grid, Sensors & instruments

Critical-infrastructure resilience sensing

Utility and pipeline monitoring under grid-security rules.Scenario

Research and development route through the defence science programme

A science-and-technology programme on all-domain situational awareness.

03Proof

What buyers ask to see.

The evidence a procurement in this sector asks for, from the sector research. Each item is produced by the grid as a record, not written up afterwards.

  • Controlled-goods registration
  • Security screening and ownership status
  • Where they apply
  • Are registry-gated claims and are not stated on this site

04Participation

Where communities can host the grid.

Community

Join the community

One account for every community, platform and the NXS Observatory app.Open data

Use the open networks

Public observing networks on their own terms, ready to reuse.Hosting

Host a station

Tell us about a site; we bring the survey, the design and the crew.

05Lines

The lines that serve it.

The enterprise lines that carry the scenarios above, ranked by how many name their work.

Platform

Sensors & instruments

Measurements that carry their own proof.Platform

Protocol & Grid

Your grid, on the open protocol.Platform

Hardware & power

Built for the site, not the lab.

06Search terms and open work

How the sector names the problem.

The terms buyers and programmes use, and open projects in the space, named as factual references only. Naming a project is not an endorsement or a relationship.

Search terms Arctic sensing northern infrastructure domain awareness dual-use

Open projects, for reference

  • SmartICE
  • SIKU
  • Open Arctic weather data

07Other sectors

Every sector, one grid.

Scenarios · 5

Government and public safety

Warning starts with a measurement.Scenarios · 4

Cities

The street, measured block by block.Scenarios · 5

Communities and rural

Connectivity and sensing, locally owned.Scenarios · 5

Industrial

Sites, ground and air, on one record.Scenarios · 5

Agriculture

Soil, water and weather, field by field.Scenarios · 4

Sports and events

A temporary grid for a crowd.Scenarios · 4

Development and humanitarian

Data gaps close before the crisis.Scenarios · 6

Scientific

Instruments that outlast the grant.Scenarios · 5

Environment and climate

Ecosystems, observed without a gap.Scenarios · 4

Energy

Assets, grids and weather, joined.Scenarios · 4

Transport

Corridors that report their own state.Scenarios · 3

Education

Learning to observe, on a real grid.

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Civil sensing only. Nothing else.

Lawful dual-use civil sensing only: northern infrastructure, maritime awareness and critical-infrastructure resilience. No weapons, no positioning as a defence contractor.

01How it works

From the instrument to the product.

The data path of each use case, tier by tier with the interface on every link, the equipment the use cases share, and one station joining the grid.

02Deployment scenarios

03Proof

What buyers ask to see.

The evidence a procurement in this sector asks for, from the sector research. Each item is produced by the grid as a record, not written up afterwards.

    04Participation

    Where communities can host the grid.

    Community

    Join the community

    One account for every community, platform and the NXS Observatory app.

    Open data

    Use the open networks

    Public observing networks on their own terms, ready to reuse.

    Hosting

    Host a station

    Tell us about a site; we bring the survey, the design and the crew.

    05Lines

    The lines that serve it.

    06Search terms and open work

    How the sector names the problem.

    The terms buyers and programmes use, and open projects in the space, named as factual references only. Naming a project is not an endorsement or a relationship.

    Search terms
    Open projects, for reference
      07Other sectors

      Every sector, one grid.

      Bring us the site.

      Talk to us