Filtronic joins UK's TEAM FORTITUDE as founding partner
Filtronic, a developer of RF and microwave solutions, has joined TEAM FORTITUDE, a UK partnership of British SMEs to deliver a home-grown capability in electronic warfare.
Other members of the collaboration include Penten Amio, Mercury-EW along with a wider supplier ecosystem.
Together, the partners aim to offer a flexible and scalable ecosystem that can rapidly respond to evolving defence requirements, with a core team also able to draw on a wider network of UK specialist SMEs and suppliers, enabling a tailored and modular approach to customer needs.
Filtronic’s role in TEAM FORTITUDE is to provide specialist design, development, manufacturing, and testing of complex RF hardware, enabling rapid transition from early technology readiness levels (TRL) to scalable volume production.
“We’re proud to be a founding partner of TEAM FORTITUDE, bringing our RF engineering expertise to support the UK’s sovereign defence capabilities,” said Nat Edington, CEO of Filtronic. “This partnership showcases the strength of collaboration between innovative British SMEs and creates a robust platform for delivering cutting-edge EW technology both at home and abroad.”
“Our mission is to deliver trusted innovation that gives our defence partners the operational edge,” said Matt Thomas, UK CEO, PentenAmio. “By forming TEAM FORTITUDE, we’re uniting best-of-British capability to accelerate the delivery of electronic deception technologies—not only for the UK MOD, but also in support of our AUKUS partners across Australia, the United States, and the broader allied defence community.”
“At Mercury EW, we firmly believe that human performance is central to operational success,” said Andrew Lonsdale, CTO, Mercury EW. “With the increasing prevalence of technology and automated intelligence in military operations, we must train our people cleverer, earlier, and with absolute fidelity to overmatch our adversaries. As a proud co-founding member of team Fortitude, that is our objective.”
Looking ahead, the team sees opportunities for growth across land, maritime, air and space domains, offering high-performance, scalable solutions that can be tailored for both current and future operational needs.
