Digital Twins & Operational Agility 

Enabling a smarter, safer force

When complexity increases, agility wins. In today’s dynamic defence landscape, digital twins are no longer experimental — they are essential enablers of mission readiness, logistics resilience, and real-time insight.

At Sopra Steria, we don’t just create digital replicas of systems. We deliver dynamic, connected models that simulate, test, and improve operations — across the physical and digital spectrum. For the Netherlands Ministry of Defence, digital twins unlock new levels of preparedness, decision support, and lifecycle control across domains.

We don’t simulate for the sake of simulation. We simulate to optimise, adapt and act — faster, smarter, and with full sovereignty.

What is a Defence Digital Twin?

A digital twin is a live, evolving model of an asset, system, or operation — continuously updated with real-world data. It allows decision-makers to test scenarios, forecast outcomes, and improve performance without putting assets or lives at risk.

At Sopra Steria, our digital twins support:

  • Operational planning & rehearsal

  • Logistics chain modelling & optimisation

  • Predictive maintenance & readiness tracking

  • Training environment generation

  • Force structure and mobility testing

Why it matters to the Netherlands MoD

As the Dutch Armed Forces modernise their platforms and operational concepts, complexity rises: joint-force coordination, multi-domain environments, extended logistics, aging assets, and evolving threats.

Digital twins offer critical capabilities to:

 

Simulate mission scenarios before deployment

Anticipate failure points across fleets and assets

Improve safety and reduce cost across planning and execution

Enable commanders to make faster, data-driven decisions

Stress-test logistics and support chains

Our approach: Data-driven, modular, defence-ready

 

Built for real-world use, not just modelling
We tailor our twins to operational needs — not lab specs. Our teams co-design models with frontline users, ensuring relevance, usability, and mission fit.

Connected to live data
A digital twin is only as good as the data it uses. We integrate IoT, ERP, asset telemetry, and C2 systems to keep your twin current, relevant, and valuable.

Simulate across the lifecycle
From procurement to decommissioning, our twins support analysis at every stage: acquisition impact, readiness planning, MRO optimisation, and beyond.

Secure, sovereign by design
We design simulation and twin environments that respect data sensitivity, security clearance, and Dutch/EU regulatory frameworks.

Where Digital Twins add immediate value

  • Joint training & simulation: Build secure, flexible rehearsal environments for multi-unit and coalition exercises

  • Logistics resilience: Simulate parts flow, depot capacity, and contingency routing for high-readiness support

  • Fleet modernisation: Model the lifecycle cost, availability and impact of new platforms

  • Base infrastructure planning: Use spatial twins to plan facility upgrades, power systems, and defence mobility

  • Operational forecasting: Simulate mission outcomes using real-world force data and historical scenario inputs

Sopra Steria launches Mactan Ops: A deployable Cyber Defense solution for field operations

Nov 21, 2024, 00:00 AM
Title* : Sopra Steria launches Mactan Ops: A deployable Cyber Defense solution for field operations


Mactan Ops is a deployable version of its sovereign security monitoring solution.

  • Sopra Steria unveils a deployable version of its sovereign security monitoring solution, Mactan, called Mactan Ops. 

  • Its rapid deployment and low hardware footprint enable effective information system monitoring, even in the most complex environments.

Paris, November 20, 2024 – At the European Cyber Week 2024, Sopra Steria introduces a new dimension to cyber defense with the launch of a deployable version of Mactan, a security monitoring solution that can be deployed in operations.

Already a leader in the sector, the Mactan security monitoring solution is now available in a deployable version, called Mactan Ops. This major evolution offers security and defense forces the ability to support their operations everywhere in the field, without the need for dedicated specialists. Thanks to its modular design and proven adaptability, Mactan easily interfaces with existing security systems (NDR, EDR, etc.). Its rapid deployment and low hardware footprint enable effective information system monitoring, even in the most complex environments.

In addition to Mactan & Mactan Ops, Sopra Steria has presented on the European Cyber Week several other innovative sovereign cybersecurity and cyber defense solutions, including:

  • Reveal – A cybersecurity solution developed by Sopra Steria, capable of thoroughly analysing and decontaminating the content of files and extracting data from various files, such as archives, emails and their attachments, or directly from virtual machines, to neutralize malicious data.
  • DataSphere – A DCS (Data Centric Security) solution offering comprehensive protection of documents throughout their lifecycle. This interoperable solution combines labelling mechanisms and data encryption compliant with STANAG 4774 and 4778, as well as granular and continuous access control.
  • Threat Watch – A service allowing the management of business risks related to vulnerabilities impacting the information system. This service alerts Sopra Steria's clients with a customized analysis of vulnerabilities in their context to appreciate the real risk induced by their criticality. It facilitates maintaining security conditions by consolidating the necessary information in a single tool, allowing the management of remediation.
  • SEDUCS, by CS GROUP – A platform for generating sovereign hardened operating systems deployable on any type of hardware and systems to ensure a high level of security and minimize operational and security maintenance. The SEDUCS unifyer solution enables the implementation of a dual-domain, dual-level workstation allowing the user to work fully mobile on two isolated environments with different security needs.
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We bring defence simulation to life

Sopra Steria’s strength lies in our ability to integrate simulation into live operations. We don’t deliver tools in isolation. We deliver end-to-end simulation ecosystems that connect:

  • Command systems and digital backbones

  • Logistics and ERP environments

  • Geospatial, mobility and weather data

  • Cyber resilience scenarios and threat models

We have delivered digital twin ecosystems to support predictive maintenance in fleet systems, joint operational planning tools for European agencies, and simulated testing environments for critical system modernisation — all built to scale securely, and serve real mission needs.

Prepare, predict, prevail — with Digital Twins

In today’s environment, the ability to rehearse, adapt and respond quickly is a decisive advantage. Sopra Steria helps MOD NL gain that edge — through simulation that informs every decision, and digital twins that mirror the complexity of the mission.

Let’s build systems that think ahead — so your force can move forward with clarity and control.

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Sopra Steria launches Mactan Ops: A deployable Cyber Defense solution for field operations

Nov 21, 2024, 00:00 AM
Title* : Sopra Steria launches Mactan Ops: A deployable Cyber Defense solution for field operations


Mactan Ops is a deployable version of its sovereign security monitoring solution.

  • Sopra Steria unveils a deployable version of its sovereign security monitoring solution, Mactan, called Mactan Ops. 

  • Its rapid deployment and low hardware footprint enable effective information system monitoring, even in the most complex environments.

Paris, November 20, 2024 – At the European Cyber Week 2024, Sopra Steria introduces a new dimension to cyber defense with the launch of a deployable version of Mactan, a security monitoring solution that can be deployed in operations.

Already a leader in the sector, the Mactan security monitoring solution is now available in a deployable version, called Mactan Ops. This major evolution offers security and defense forces the ability to support their operations everywhere in the field, without the need for dedicated specialists. Thanks to its modular design and proven adaptability, Mactan easily interfaces with existing security systems (NDR, EDR, etc.). Its rapid deployment and low hardware footprint enable effective information system monitoring, even in the most complex environments.

In addition to Mactan & Mactan Ops, Sopra Steria has presented on the European Cyber Week several other innovative sovereign cybersecurity and cyber defense solutions, including:

  • Reveal – A cybersecurity solution developed by Sopra Steria, capable of thoroughly analysing and decontaminating the content of files and extracting data from various files, such as archives, emails and their attachments, or directly from virtual machines, to neutralize malicious data.
  • DataSphere – A DCS (Data Centric Security) solution offering comprehensive protection of documents throughout their lifecycle. This interoperable solution combines labelling mechanisms and data encryption compliant with STANAG 4774 and 4778, as well as granular and continuous access control.
  • Threat Watch – A service allowing the management of business risks related to vulnerabilities impacting the information system. This service alerts Sopra Steria's clients with a customized analysis of vulnerabilities in their context to appreciate the real risk induced by their criticality. It facilitates maintaining security conditions by consolidating the necessary information in a single tool, allowing the management of remediation.
  • SEDUCS, by CS GROUP – A platform for generating sovereign hardened operating systems deployable on any type of hardware and systems to ensure a high level of security and minimize operational and security maintenance. The SEDUCS unifyer solution enables the implementation of a dual-domain, dual-level workstation allowing the user to work fully mobile on two isolated environments with different security needs.
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Sopra Steria launches Mactan Ops: A deployable Cyber Defense solution for field operations

Nov 21, 2024, 00:00 AM
Title* : Sopra Steria launches Mactan Ops: A deployable Cyber Defense solution for field operations


Mactan Ops is a deployable version of its sovereign security monitoring solution.

  • Sopra Steria unveils a deployable version of its sovereign security monitoring solution, Mactan, called Mactan Ops. 

  • Its rapid deployment and low hardware footprint enable effective information system monitoring, even in the most complex environments.

Paris, November 20, 2024 – At the European Cyber Week 2024, Sopra Steria introduces a new dimension to cyber defense with the launch of a deployable version of Mactan, a security monitoring solution that can be deployed in operations.

Already a leader in the sector, the Mactan security monitoring solution is now available in a deployable version, called Mactan Ops. This major evolution offers security and defense forces the ability to support their operations everywhere in the field, without the need for dedicated specialists. Thanks to its modular design and proven adaptability, Mactan easily interfaces with existing security systems (NDR, EDR, etc.). Its rapid deployment and low hardware footprint enable effective information system monitoring, even in the most complex environments.

In addition to Mactan & Mactan Ops, Sopra Steria has presented on the European Cyber Week several other innovative sovereign cybersecurity and cyber defense solutions, including:

  • Reveal – A cybersecurity solution developed by Sopra Steria, capable of thoroughly analysing and decontaminating the content of files and extracting data from various files, such as archives, emails and their attachments, or directly from virtual machines, to neutralize malicious data.
  • DataSphere – A DCS (Data Centric Security) solution offering comprehensive protection of documents throughout their lifecycle. This interoperable solution combines labelling mechanisms and data encryption compliant with STANAG 4774 and 4778, as well as granular and continuous access control.
  • Threat Watch – A service allowing the management of business risks related to vulnerabilities impacting the information system. This service alerts Sopra Steria's clients with a customized analysis of vulnerabilities in their context to appreciate the real risk induced by their criticality. It facilitates maintaining security conditions by consolidating the necessary information in a single tool, allowing the management of remediation.
  • SEDUCS, by CS GROUP – A platform for generating sovereign hardened operating systems deployable on any type of hardware and systems to ensure a high level of security and minimize operational and security maintenance. The SEDUCS unifyer solution enables the implementation of a dual-domain, dual-level workstation allowing the user to work fully mobile on two isolated environments with different security needs.
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Sopra Steria launches Mactan Ops: A deployable Cyber Defense solution for field operations

Nov 21, 2024, 00:00 AM
Title* : Sopra Steria launches Mactan Ops: A deployable Cyber Defense solution for field operations


Mactan Ops is a deployable version of its sovereign security monitoring solution.

  • Sopra Steria unveils a deployable version of its sovereign security monitoring solution, Mactan, called Mactan Ops. 

  • Its rapid deployment and low hardware footprint enable effective information system monitoring, even in the most complex environments.

Paris, November 20, 2024 – At the European Cyber Week 2024, Sopra Steria introduces a new dimension to cyber defense with the launch of a deployable version of Mactan, a security monitoring solution that can be deployed in operations.

Already a leader in the sector, the Mactan security monitoring solution is now available in a deployable version, called Mactan Ops. This major evolution offers security and defense forces the ability to support their operations everywhere in the field, without the need for dedicated specialists. Thanks to its modular design and proven adaptability, Mactan easily interfaces with existing security systems (NDR, EDR, etc.). Its rapid deployment and low hardware footprint enable effective information system monitoring, even in the most complex environments.

In addition to Mactan & Mactan Ops, Sopra Steria has presented on the European Cyber Week several other innovative sovereign cybersecurity and cyber defense solutions, including:

  • Reveal – A cybersecurity solution developed by Sopra Steria, capable of thoroughly analysing and decontaminating the content of files and extracting data from various files, such as archives, emails and their attachments, or directly from virtual machines, to neutralize malicious data.
  • DataSphere – A DCS (Data Centric Security) solution offering comprehensive protection of documents throughout their lifecycle. This interoperable solution combines labelling mechanisms and data encryption compliant with STANAG 4774 and 4778, as well as granular and continuous access control.
  • Threat Watch – A service allowing the management of business risks related to vulnerabilities impacting the information system. This service alerts Sopra Steria's clients with a customized analysis of vulnerabilities in their context to appreciate the real risk induced by their criticality. It facilitates maintaining security conditions by consolidating the necessary information in a single tool, allowing the management of remediation.
  • SEDUCS, by CS GROUP – A platform for generating sovereign hardened operating systems deployable on any type of hardware and systems to ensure a high level of security and minimize operational and security maintenance. The SEDUCS unifyer solution enables the implementation of a dual-domain, dual-level workstation allowing the user to work fully mobile on two isolated environments with different security needs.
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