PRESS RELEASE : HENSOLDT AG: Sensors for the digital space: HENSOLDT acquires open source intelligence provider SAIL LABS

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HENSOLDT AG: Sensors for the digital space: HENSOLDT acquires open source intelligence provider SAIL LABS 
2021-01-20 / 11:43 
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HENSOLDT has acquired the Austrian company SAIL LABS, a leading provider of AI-based Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) 
solutions 
Taufkirchen/Germany, 20 January 2021 - Sensor specialist HENSOLDT has acquired the Austrian company SAIL LABS, a 
leading provider of AI-based Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) solutions. With this step, HENSOLDT completes its sensor 
portfolio with intelligent solutions for the digital space and thus takes a further step towards becoming one of the 
leading data analysis houses in the security and defence sector in Germany. 
Thomas Müller, CEO of HENSOLDT, says: "National security matters increasingly include issues of smart data collection 
and analysis. Therefore, governments and security agencies increasingly invest in these capabilities. Smart ISR and 
Smart Spectrum Dominance will become standard equipment in many security and defence solutions. With the acquisition of 
SAIL LABS, we continue our strategy of consistently investing in key technologies that will strengthen our position as 
a leading European champion in the field of defence and security electronics." 
Marian Rachow, CEO of HENSOLDT Cyber and Head of HENSOLDT Ventures, says: "We are delighted to welcome the employees of 
SAIL LABS to the HENSOLDT family. The acquisition underlines our ambition to become the German technology leader in 
data analytics and cyber. So far, we have developed groundbreaking technologies such as the highly secure operating 
system TRENTOS or the RISC-V processor MiG-V primarily in-house. With SAIL LABS' AI technology, we are now investing in 
a digital platform approach for the first time, which we will now consistently develop further for our customers." 
Celia Pelaz, Head of Spectrum Dominance & Airborne Solutions Division underlines the importance of this acquisition for 
HENSOLDT's Spectrum Dominance strategy: "The electromagnetic spectrum and cyberspace are no longer just a means of 
communicating or sensing the environment; they have become an operational space of warfare. And mastering this new 
space has become an indispensable capability for our armed forces. Expanding our signal intelligence capabilities to 
include cyber intelligence applications is a key element in providing our customers with solutions for comprehensive 
spectrum dominance, covering both the electromagnetic spectrum and cyberspace." 
Leading solution for OSINT analysis 
Founded in Vienna in 1999, SAIL LABS is considered one of the leading providers of OSINT solutions based on artificial 
intelligence (AI). OSINT refers to the evaluation of all publicly accessible data, both on TV, radio and the surface 
web as well as in social media and the deep web. SAIL LABS technology can collect, index, analyse and visualise all 
this data. A core element of the technology is automatic speech recognition and the associated analysis of data in more 
than 30 source languages. Specific fields of application are the identification of media false news or disinformation 
campaigns or the early identification of sources of danger for soldiers on a mission. 
Scalable platform for intelligent data analysis 
At HENSOLDT, SAIL LABS will form the core of the HENSOLDT Analytics division, a scalable sensor platform for 
intelligent mass data analyses that supports states, authorities, and armed forces in integrating traditional 
telecommunications and electronic reconnaissance (signals intelligence) and OSINT. The goal is to intelligently analyse 
the collected data and generate an overarching situation overview in real time in order to be able to make decisions on 
a sound basis. These multi-intelligence systems significantly increase the range of sensors with little effort. This 
way, it is possible to provide comprehensive sensor solutions for optical or radar-based monitoring of an operational 
area at close range up to the real-time display of a situation picture across an entire region. 
About HENSOLDT 
HENSOLDT is a pioneer of technology and innovation in the field of defence and security electronics with more than 150 
years of heritage from companies like Carl Zeiss, Airbus, Dornier, Messerschmitt and Telefunken. Based in Taufkirchen 
near Munich, the company is a German Champion with strategic leadership positions in the field of sensor solutions for 
defence and non-defence applications. HENSOLDT develops new products to combat a wide range of threats based on 
innovative approaches to data management, robotics and cyber security. With more than 5,500 employees, HENSOLDT 
generated revenues of EUR1.11 billion in 2019. HENSOLDT has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since September 
2020, where it is part of the SDAX share index. 
www.hensoldt.net 
About SAIL LABS 
SAIL LABS Technology (SAIL, "Speech, Artificial Intelligence and Language Laboratories") is a leading provider of 
automatic speech recognition (ASR) and natural language processing (NLP) technologies. SAIL was founded in 1999 in 
Vienna, Austria. It is an Austrian SME develops technologies, models and solutions to mine media and text including the 
indexing of audio, video and text, automatic speech recognition, transcriptions from multiple languages, named entity 
and topic detection and sentiment analysis. The solutions allow to process and search large collections of media files 
in near real-time and offer a variety of visual analytics capabilities. 
www.sail-labs.com 
Press contact HENSOLDT 
Joachim Schranzhofer 
Tel.: [phone] 
[e-mail] 
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Language:     English 
Company:      HENSOLDT AG 
              Willy-Messerschmitt-Straße 3 
              82024 Taufkirchen 
              Germany 
Phone:        [phone] - 0 
E-mail:       [e-mail] 
Internet:     www.hensoldt.net 
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