Hexagon operates at the infrastructure layer of autonomous systems and precision positioning. Founded in 1975 as a Swedish measurement specialist, the company has built a 24,000-person global operation across roughly 50 countries, generating approximately 5.5 billion USD in annual revenue. The core business translates sensor data and positioning signals into actionable intelligence - a stack that touches agriculture, mining, marine, aerospace, and autonomous vehicle development.
The Autonomy & Positioning division, headquartered in Calgary with operations in Arizona and Illinois, handles the technical backbone: assured positioning and navigation systems delivering centimetre-level accuracy across land, sea, and air. Key acquisitions - NovAtel, Veripos, Antcom, and AutonomouStuff - expanded the portfolio into complementary domains. This is infrastructure for safety-critical operations where signal integrity and positional confidence matter operationally, not theoretically.
The threat model for this infrastructure class is straightforward: spoofing, jamming, and signal degradation in GNSS-dependent systems. Hexagon's positioning and autonomy work sits in environments where those threats translate directly to operational failure. The company's technical approach combines sensor diversity, software signal processing, and autonomous system integration - the hard problem isn't just getting location data, but assuring its integrity under adversarial conditions and system-level uncertainty.
