Praesidium Defence is an Estonia-registered defence company focused on learning-oriented technical evaluation of early-stage autonomous behaviour relevant to contested ground operating environments.

The autonomy architecture under evaluation, PERSEUS, comprises perception components and a behavioural logic framework, and is assessed independently of any specific vehicle or platform.

Praesidium Defence seeks to engage with defence stakeholders to explore whether emerging autonomy approaches are technically credible, explainable, and potentially relevant, prior to any consideration of acquisition, deployment, or integration.

Praesidium Defence serves as the Estonian anchor entity for potential discussions around the evaluation of PERSEUS, an autonomy architecture under development for operation in GPS-denied and degraded environments.

Praesidium Defence is seeking MoD guidance on whether a small, bounded, Ministry of Defence-owned Phase-1 technical evaluation would be useful, to assess whether SOP-informed autonomous ground behaviour warrants further analytical attention.

Praesidium Defence draws on experience in autonomous systems, battlefield robotics, and AI-enabled sensing architectures. Current work focuses on exploratory research into perception-driven autonomy and behaviour modelling for operation in GPS-denied environments.

Praesidium Defence is seeking guidance from relevant defence organisations on whether a small, tightly scoped technical evaluation of emerging autonomy architectures would be useful in understanding their potential relevance to contested ground operations.

This activity, if undertaken, would be learning-focused only and does not constitute a procurement programme or capability endorsement.