Digitalisation and Business Consulting Partner To The Defence And Security Sector

A scalable, AI-powered ecosystem for integrated airspace awareness and response.

The Challenge

Low-altitude airspace is becoming increasingly congested and contested, driven by the rapid rise of drones, hybrid threats and disruptions affecting both security and critical infrastructure. Existing approaches remain fragmented across domains and institutions, largely reactive and unable to support timely, coordinated decisionmaking. As a result, a growing gap persists between detection and effective response.

The Concept

Drone Dome introduces an integrated ecosystem rather than a standalone system. It connects sensing, analysis and response into a unified operational layer that enables continuous situational awareness across domains. Built on a modular and open architecture, it brings together existing and emerging technologies into a scalable framework designed to support real-time coordination.

Core Principles

• AI-powered decision loop acceleration

At its core, Drone Dome applies self-learning AI to continuously improve detection, analysis and response, accelerating decision-making and increasing effectiveness over time.

• Modular & open architecture

The system is designed as a flexible and vendor-agnostic ecosystem that can adapt to different environments, operational needs and evolving threat landscapes.

• Dual-use by design

The same framework supports both defence and civilian applications, enabling consistent use across security, border management, infrastructure protection and public safety.

• AI-powered decision loop acceleration
• Modular & open arhitecture
• Dual-use by design for defence and civilian applications

How it works

Drone Dome integrates sensing, data fusion and response capabilities into a continuous loop of detection, analysis, prioritization, decision and action. Through continuous learning and adaptation, the system improves performance over time while maintaining consistent operational logic.

Why It Matters

By moving from fragmented tools to a connected ecosystem, Drone Dome enables faster and more informed decisions, supports scalable deployment across different environments and strengthens resilience against evolving threats, while making better use of existing capabilities.

Ecosystem Approach

Drone Dome is built as a collaborative framework that brings together technology providers, public sector stakeholders and infrastructure operators into a shared operational environment.

Engage with the concept

Drone Dome introduces a scalable approach to airspace awareness and response, opening opportunities for collaboration, experimentation and the development of new use cases.

Empowering space cybersecurity in civilian and defence domains.

The Solution

The solution is being developed in collaboration with the European Space Agency and brings together CGI Estonia, CybExer Technologies, Spaceit, and the Foundation CR14. It delivers a unified virtual simulation environment—the Space Cyber Range (SCR)— designed to strengthen cyber resilience across space and defence domains. Built on Estonia’s proven cyber range expertise, particularly in the defence sector, the SCR addresses the growing convergence of civilian and defence space systems. It enables bidirectional knowledge transfer: applying defence-grade cyber defence practices to space infrastructures while feeding space-sector innovations back into defence operations.

The SCR enables:

• Test & validate:

Assess space-related software cyber readiness to reduce vulnerabilities and risks. Capabilities include penetration testing, communication testing, integration testing, performance testing, reliability and recovery testing, as well as testing using open-source and other means.

• Train & exercise

Create space-related environments and simulate potential cyber threats within secure artificial environments (cyber ranges) to train users for more effective defence capabilities. The SCR will offer teambased hybrid exercises, multiparty exercises, collision avoidance scenarios, live-fire exercises, and other cyber defence exercises. Additionally, users can corporate their own content into the platform.

• Knowledge sharing

The SCR will function as a marketplace for sharing space cybersecurity related content, including articles, blog posts, academic publications and manuals. Additionally, it will support the organization of various cyber defence related events with a space infrastructure component.

Strategic benefits:

• Enhanched mission assurance
• Operational readiness and efficiency
• Multi-domain defence enamblement

Strategic Benefits for Defence Operations

Enhanced Mission Assurance
 

• Deep understanding of cyber risks affecting space-enabled operations

• Access to validated and tested defence-grade solutions

• Early identification and mitigation of vulnerabilities
 

Operational Readiness & Efficiency
 

• Realistic training environments improving decision-making under pressure

• Optimized resource use through virtual testing instead of physical deployment

• Faster validation cycles for mission-critical technologies Multi-Domain Defence Enablement

• Support for synchronized defence across space, air, and cyber domains

• High-fidelity threat modelling for modern hybrid warfare scenarios

• Interoperable “system-of-systems” environment for proactive threat hunting
 

Multi-Domain Defence Enablement
 

• Support for synchronized defence across space, air, and cyber domains

• High-fidelity threat modelling for modern hybrid warfare scenarios

• Interoperable “system-of-systems” environment for proactive threat hunting
 

Space Cyber Range (SCR) unified virtual simulation environment for cyber resilience across space and defence domain.
 

Sille Kraam 

Director of Consulting Services
Space and Earth Observation 
sille.kraam@cgi.com