Elproma Electronics, MSPO 2026, and FOSREM: Photonics for Defence on NATO’s Eastern Flank

The 34th International Defence Industry Exhibition in Kielce closed on 11 September 2026. The opening message from Kosiniak-Kamysz and Sobkowiak-Czarnecka framed the Armed Forces transformation as roughly 50/50 domestic versus import, with Turkey’s reversed mix cited as a benchmark. Day-one national premieres included heavy tracked platforms and heavy IFVs. Side agendas covered critical technologies, technological sovereignty, Poland-Ukraine UAS cooperation, and cyber/societal resilience. FOSREM was present in Kielce as a part of the Photonics 4 Defence initiative.

Where FOSREM fits in defence strategy

· Critical infrastructure protection: bridges, pipelines, Baltic wind farms, nuclear sites, undersea cables, and buried assets, thanks to the early detection of vibration and rotational events.

· Border and eastern flank: passive sensing that can support systems such as East Shield as a detection layer along segments, not as a replacement for kinetic systems.

· GNSS-denied / holdover PNT: FOG + FOS + ARGOS as a “time + navigation + interference awareness” package, aligned with Baltic jamming and spoofing risks.

· Dual-use and technological sovereignty: Polish technology, developed with MUT and Lodz University of Technology, nanoscale, with JCR publications.

· Civil spillover: geology, resources, wind, bridges, where the same sensor, different contracts, helping finance and keep the production line warm between military orders.

FOSREM at the PPTF and ORLEN Group Meeting

On April 9, 2026, a meeting of the Polish Technology Platform on Photonics (PPTF) was held with representatives of industry companies within the ORLEN S.A. Group (ORLEN Unipetrol, ORLEN Neptun, Grupa LOTOS S.A.). During the meeting, organized at the headquarters of Łukasiewicz-PIAP in Warsaw, the latest achievements of the Polish photonics sector were presented.

Elproma presented the optical Sagnac interferometer, based on which three devices are being developed in Poland:

1. A rotational seismology seismometer, FOS class,
2. An industrial event detection system FOM-MEM,
3. An optical gyroscope FOG.

The audience was also introduced to the role of optical interferometry within the company’s dual-use solutions portfolio (www.elpromaelectronics.com), highlighting the strong interconnection between the following groups:

I. Sagnac optical interferometry,
II. Network time synchronization systems (NTP/PTP) and satellite-based GNSS systems resistant to time manipulation,
III. Systems for detecting jamming and GPS (GNSS) spoofing (ARGOS system).

In the discussion, Elproma demonstrated a strong relationship between time synchronization (T) and its resilience to GPS interference, and optical interferometry solutions used for determining position (P) and navigation (N) without relying on satellite-based GNSS techniques. It was noted that FOSREM is a particularly important technology for the development of the Polish economy, operating at the nanoscale level of atomic resolution. It serves not only for monitoring infrastructure security, but also provides a new class of non-invasive instruments for identifying sources of natural resources located deep underground.