Oxford Dynamics

Oxford Dynamics is a UK-based deep-tech company developing AI-driven autonomous systems for defence, national security, and aerospace applications. Founded in 2020 and based at the Harwell Campus in Oxfordshire, the company has built a suite of products centred on its flagship AVIS (A Very Intelligent System) multi-agent AI engine, which processes data across multiple modalities — text, imagery, video, radar, LiDAR and electronic signals — to deliver explainable, real-time intelligence for operators making high-consequence decisions.

Modern defence challenges are defined by information overload. The battlespace generates data from satellites, drones, ground vehicles, aircraft, and cyber infrastructure at a pace and variety no human team can process in real time. Oxford Dynamics was founded on the conviction that effective AI for these environments must be able to reason across modalities, show its working, and support rather than replace human judgement — operating in communications-denied, edge-deployed settings where cloud connectivity is unavailable.

The company's product portfolio includes AVIS, its core multi-agent intelligence engine; SR-1, a sensor fusion system for drone detection and threat characterisation enabling 360-degree passive scouting; and Strider, a semi-autonomous ground robot designed for hazardous environments including CBRN incident response. All products are built around explainable AI — a design principle critical in defence contexts where operators need to understand the basis of any recommendation before acting on it.

Oxford Dynamics operated entirely from commercial revenues and government research contracts — including a £1 million DSTL contract and subsequent DASA programmes — before securing its first external capital: a strategic investment from BAE Systems in August 2025. The partnership integrates Oxford Dynamics' technology into BAE's Prophesea defence platform and marks the beginning of a broader collaboration spanning air, land, sea, space, and cyber domains. The company has also won a major UK MOD Digital Decision Accelerators for Defence (DDAD) Framework contract to deliver AVIS as part of the British Army's ASGARD digital transformation programme.