Defence · Secure Estates

Secure digital twins for defence and government estates

Defence estates need everything a commercial building needs from a twin, plus a level of control over hosting and access that most commercial platforms never had to design for.

OnXR 06 April 2026 5 min read
The Old War Office building on Whitehall in London

Defence and government estates ask for the same underlying capability as any other vertical on this platform, an accurate, current spatial model of a building or site. What changes is everything around it: who can see the twin, where it is hosted, and how confident a security team can be that the answer to both questions will not change without their knowledge.

Secure twins, training, situational awareness

That is the short version of what we build for this vertical, and it is worth taking each part seriously rather than treating it as a slogan. Secure twins means the twin itself is subject to the same access control discipline as any other sensitive estate record, not a separate system with weaker protections because it happens to be visual rather than textual. Training means a spatial model of a real facility is a genuinely useful reference for induction and exercise planning, without needing a physical visit every time. Situational awareness means the twin, kept current, gives a team a shared, accurate picture of a site's layout when planning matters.

Why hosting is not a footnote here

For most verticals, where a platform is hosted is a background detail. For defence and government estates it is frequently the first question, and rightly so. Our platform is hosted in the UK, with our primary region in London and disaster recovery in Ireland. That is covered in more technical depth later in this series.

What we do not do: we do not position this platform as a replacement for specialist defence systems built for operational command. It is a spatial record and planning tool for the estate, not a battlefield management system, and we are precise about that distinction with every defence prospect we talk to.

Data residency and UK hosting sit behind every vertical on this platform, not just defence, and deserve their own explanation. Read that post later in this series. See the wider positioning on our Defence vertical page.

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