Audit Phase: V-MIL
Prepared: 2026-05-01
Scope: Two distinct corporate entities sharing the “Churchill” name are audited in parallel throughout all sections.
Two separate corporate entities require parallel treatment across all domain sections.
Entity A — Churchill Navigation / SHOTOVER Systems: Churchill Navigation was a Boulder, Colorado-based airborne mission management and avionics software company. In August 2020 it merged with SHOTOVER Camera Systems (Queenstown, New Zealand) to form SHOTOVER Systems.1 Its principal product is the Augmented Reality System (ARS), a mission management platform that overlays geospatial data onto live airborne sensor feeds.4 The merged entity retains the SHOTOVER Systems name and is treated as the successor entity throughout.2
Entity B — Churchill Group (UK) / ProFM Group: Churchill Group (also trading as Churchill Contract Services and Churchill Support Services) is a UK-based soft facilities management and security guarding company. In March 2025 the business rebranded as ProFM Group.14 Its services encompass commercial cleaning, environmental services, and manned security guarding. It does not manufacture products of any kind.
Prior research identifies a claimed supply relationship, dating to June 2017, in which CONTROP Precision Technologies (an Israeli electro-optical and infrared systems manufacturer) announced supply of its iSky-20HD and iSky-50HD airborne surveillance payloads to the Israeli Police, with those payloads described as integrated with Churchill Navigation Mission Systems.3 This claim carries a material epistemic caveat: the primary source URL cited in prior research for this announcement resolves to an unrelated Elbit Systems DIRCM article — a citation mismatch that means the specific 2017 CONTROP press release naming Churchill Navigation as the integration partner has not been independently confirmed from a retrievable primary source. CONTROP’s iSky product line is a publicly documented airborne EO/IR platform marketed to law enforcement and internal security forces,3 and the general integration architecture described is technically consistent with Churchill Navigation’s ARS software capabilities,4 but the specific named relationship with the Israeli Police programme remains unverified at primary-source level.
No verified contracts between Churchill Navigation / SHOTOVER Systems and the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), Israeli Ministry of Defence (IMOD), Israel Prison Service, or Israel Border Police have been identified. No public evidence identified in SIBAT export directories, Israeli procurement registries, or defence exhibition catalogues lists Churchill Navigation or SHOTOVER Systems as an Israeli state contractor.
SHOTOVER Systems is confirmed as a participant exhibitor at Singapore Airshow 2026 within the USA Partnership Pavilion.12 No Israeli MoD or IDF contract announcements have been made by SHOTOVER Systems following the August 2020 merger. No public evidence identified.
No verified direct contracts between Churchill Group / ProFM Group and any Israeli state security body — including the IDF, IMOD, Israeli Police, Israel Prison Service, or Israel Border Police — have been identified. Churchill Group / ProFM Group does not appear in Israeli defence procurement registries or SIBAT directories. No public evidence identified.
Churchill Navigation’s Augmented Reality System (ARS) is a confirmed dual-use product. Company materials describe it as “the world’s leading augmented reality mapping system” installed on more than 300 platforms worldwide, overlaying 3D satellite and synthetic terrain imagery onto live sensor video with geospatial annotations including street names, addresses, and critical infrastructure.4 The product is actively marketed across civilian law enforcement, search and rescue, broadcast/sports media, and military/defence verticals.4813
The Vertical 911 supplement to the ALEA 2016 issue of Vertical Magazine documents Churchill Navigation’s ARS in airborne law enforcement configurations, indicating active deployment in police aviation units.8 The Military Helicopter Handbook (April 2018, Internet Archive) references Churchill Navigation systems in helicopter mission equipment contexts consistent with military end-use marketing.9 The European Security and Defence journal (ESD issue 6/2019) similarly situates Churchill Navigation-compatible system architectures within military helicopter upgrade programmes.10
Post-merger, SHOTOVER Systems combines Churchill’s ARS software with SHOTOVER’s gyro-stabilised camera gimbal hardware. The merged product portfolio explicitly targets law enforcement, military, and broadcast markets.12
Prior research notes that SHOTOVER Systems markets certain products — specifically the U1 drone camera — as carrying no ITAR restrictions, consistent with its New Zealand manufacturing base and the non-applicability of US International Traffic in Arms Regulations to New Zealand-origin goods. This characterisation has not been independently confirmed from current SHOTOVER product literature in this session and is noted as unverified at primary-source level, though it is architecturally consistent with the company’s New Zealand domicile.5
No publicly available end-user certificates or export licence documents distinguishing civilian from military sales of the ARS to Israeli entities have been identified. No public evidence identified.
Churchill Group / ProFM Group manufactures no products and does not produce dual-use goods. Its service activities — commercial cleaning, environmental services, manned security guarding — are entirely service-sector in nature and fall outside the scope of dual-use product analysis. Not applicable.
Not applicable. Churchill Navigation / SHOTOVER Systems is a software and avionics firm. It does not manufacture or supply heavy machinery, construction equipment, vehicles, or engineering plant of any kind. No public evidence identified.
Not applicable. Churchill Group / ProFM Group is a facilities management and security services company. It does not manufacture or supply heavy machinery, construction equipment, or vehicles. No verified reports, NGO investigations, UN documentation, or photographic evidence of equipment associated with either Churchill entity in occupied Palestinian territories, settlement construction, separation barrier construction, or demolition activity have been identified. This conclusion is consistent with a review of the Who Profits Research Center database29 and Palestine Action’s Elbit Systems UK supply chain documentation,27 neither of which names either Churchill entity in connection with infrastructure activity in occupied territories. No public evidence identified.
CONTROP Precision Technologies: The unverified 2017 claim identifies Churchill Navigation’s ARS as having been integrated into CONTROP iSky payloads for Israeli Police delivery. CONTROP is an Israeli defence firm whose iSky airborne EO/IR product line is publicly documented as designed for airborne law enforcement and security applications.3 The technical integration of a mission management overlay system (such as ARS) with an EO/IR payload (such as iSky) is consistent with the general architecture of airborne surveillance platforms, but the specific contractual or supply relationship between Churchill Navigation and CONTROP has not been confirmed from an independently retrievable primary source.
Elbit Systems — co-occurrence in platform specifications: Prior research identifies co-occurrence of Churchill Navigation system references alongside Elbit Systems’ BrightNite avionics suite in helicopter upgrade specifications and trade publications.67910 Elbit’s BrightNite is a confirmed helicopter degraded-visual-environment sensor suite marketed and deployed for both military and law enforcement missions.67 Churchill Navigation systems and BrightNite are referenced within the same platform-level equipment specifications in the Military Helicopter Handbook (April 2018)9 and European Security and Defence (ESD 6/2019),10 indicating at minimum ecosystem-level interoperability or co-deployment. However, no verified direct supply contract, sub-system supply agreement, or joint development record between Churchill Navigation and Elbit Systems has been identified. Co-listing in trade publications establishes co-occurrence, not a contractual supply relationship.
Israeli Air Force CH-53 “Yasur” upgrade programme: Prior research suggests possible integration of Churchill Navigation systems into the IDF CH-53 Yasur helicopter life-extension programme managed by Elbit Systems. The Yasur upgrade programme is a confirmed Israeli Air Force programme for which Elbit Systems is the prime contractor, involving avionics modernisation of the CH-53 fleet.11 However, no contract document, official announcement, or verified secondary source confirms Churchill Navigation as a named sub-system supplier on the Yasur upgrade. The inference rests on platform-level equipment co-listings in trade publications rather than a primary procurement record. No public evidence identified for confirmed Yasur sub-system supply.
No verified supply relationships between Churchill Navigation / SHOTOVER Systems and IAI, Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, or Elbit Land have been identified. No public evidence identified.
Instro Precision (Elbit Systems UK subsidiary): The most substantiated supply chain relationship for Entity B is Churchill Group’s provision of cleaning and facilities management services to Instro Precision, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Elbit Systems UK located in Sandwich, Kent. Instro Precision produces targeting optics and electro-optical systems and is confirmed as an Elbit Systems UK subsidiary operating from Sandwich.2628 The evidence basis for Churchill Group’s service relationship with Instro Precision consists of Indeed UK recruitment advertisements (retrieved January 2026) showing Churchill Group advertising “Cleaning Operative” positions in the Sandwich CT13 area with reference to Instro Precision.1617 This is indirect recruitment-advertisement evidence, not a primary contract document; it is consistent with an active service relationship but does not constitute a contractual record.
Elbit Systems UK / Filton (Bristol) facility: Prior research cites a claim that Churchill Group provides cleaning services at Elbit Systems UK’s Filton facility. The cited source is a photojournalist’s news archive.25 The claim rests on a single ambiguously worded passage and has not been independently confirmed from a primary corporate or procurement record. This finding is noted as unverified at primary-source level.
No joint development, co-production, technology transfer, or licensed manufacturing agreements between Churchill Group / ProFM Group and any Israeli defence prime have been identified. No public evidence identified.
No verified contracts to provide catering, transport, fuel supply, waste management, telecommunications, or facilities services to IDF bases, military training facilities, detention centres, or any other Israeli security infrastructure have been identified. No shipping, freight forwarding, or port handling contracts associated with Israeli defence logistics have been identified. No public evidence identified.
Churchill Group’s facilities management services to Instro Precision (Sandwich, Kent) represent the primary documented logistical sustainment relationship identified by the research. The evidence basis is Indeed UK recruitment advertising for cleaning operatives at that site,1617 as detailed under Supply Chain Integration above.
Prior research further identifies that a security guard was injured during the Palestine Action raid on the Elbit Systems UK Patchway (Filton) facility in August 2024.2122 Press and court records confirm a guard was injured at the site during the incident. Prior research infers this guard was a Churchill Support Services employee, noting Churchill’s scale and capability as a top-65 UK security company.24 This inference is explicitly unconfirmed: no court transcript, press statement, or employer identification in available sources names Churchill Support Services as the contracting security provider at the Filton site. The identity of the security guard’s employer at the time of the incident remains unconfirmed.
No verified service contracts connecting either Churchill entity to IDF bases, military installations in occupied territories, or Israeli detention facilities have been identified. No shipping, freight forwarding, or port handling contracts linking either Churchill entity to Israeli defence logistics have been identified. No public evidence identified.
Churchill Navigation / SHOTOVER Systems is not a manufacturer of lethal systems, munitions, armoured vehicles, naval vessels, or strategic platforms. The ARS is a sensor-processing and geospatial display software system that functions as a situational-awareness overlay for sensor operators.4 It does not autonomously generate targeting decisions or weapons effects and is not purpose-built for kinetic military effects. Post-merger, SHOTOVER Systems produces gyro-stabilised camera gimbals and integrated sensor systems; these are surveillance and observation platforms, not weapons or fire-control systems.12
No verified role by Churchill Navigation or SHOTOVER Systems in Iron Dome, David’s Sling, Arrow, Merkava main battle tank programmes, F-35 or F-16 subsystems, or ballistic missile systems has been identified. No public evidence identified.
Churchill Group / ProFM Group has no involvement in munitions, weapons systems, or strategic platforms of any description. No public evidence identified.
No publicly known US State Department, UK Export Control Joint Unit (ECJU), or other government decisions — whether grants, denials, suspensions, or revocations — specific to Churchill Navigation or SHOTOVER Systems sales to Israeli military or security end-users have been identified. This is consistent with a review of publicly available US State Department export licensing records and UK ECJU annual transparency reports checked against training knowledge. No public evidence identified.
No arms embargo, sanctions compliance investigations, or enforcement actions specific to either entity have been identified. No court proceedings or judicial reviews involving either entity in connection with Israeli defence supply have been identified. No public evidence identified.
The ITAR status of SHOTOVER’s product line is relevant regulatory context: the company’s New Zealand domicile means its domestically manufactured products are not subject to US ITAR by default,5 which distinguishes it from US-origin competitors. However, any US-origin components incorporated into products may trigger ITAR obligations on re-export, and no public regulatory determination on this point specific to Israeli sales has been identified. No public evidence identified.
Churchill Group / ProFM Group is a service company. Its activities — soft facilities management, cleaning, manned security guarding — are not subject to strategic export licensing regimes. Not applicable.
No legal challenges, judicial reviews, or enforcement actions involving Churchill Group / ProFM Group in connection with Israeli defence supply, its Instro Precision service relationship, or the 2024 Filton incident have been identified. The criminal proceedings arising from the August 2024 Palestine Action raid at Filton212223 are directed against activist defendants; no proceedings involving Churchill Group in that context have been identified. No public evidence identified.
No published Who Profits Research Center entry specifically naming Churchill Navigation or SHOTOVER Systems has been confirmed in training data.29 No dedicated entries for either entity appear in training-data knowledge of the Who Profits database, though the database is known to cover Israeli Police and military supply chains broadly.30
No Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Corporate Occupation, or PAX reports specifically naming Churchill Navigation or SHOTOVER Systems have been identified. No public evidence identified.
No organised Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns, institutional divestment decisions, or exclusion campaigns specifically targeting Churchill Navigation or SHOTOVER Systems have been identified in training data. No public evidence identified.
No corporate policy statements, supply-chain review announcements, or contract termination decisions by Churchill Navigation or SHOTOVER Systems in response to civil society pressure have been identified. No public evidence identified.
Palestine Action and the Elbit UK supply chain: Palestine Action has conducted a sustained campaign against Elbit Systems UK’s UK industrial base, including documented action against Elbit’s Filton facility and broader pressure on named service contractors.2723 The Declassified UK article “Why I risked prison to shut Elbit down” documents the scope of the campaign against Elbit’s UK operations and identifies the broader targeting of service suppliers.23 Churchill Group / ProFM Group is not named in that specific article in training data, but the article’s framing is directly relevant to the civil-society environment in which Churchill Group’s Instro Precision and Filton service relationships (where confirmed) are situated.
August 2024 Palestine Action raid, Filton (Bristol): Palestine Action activists conducted a raid on the Elbit Systems UK Patchway/Filton facility in August 2024. Multiple activists subsequently faced criminal charges.2122 Court and press records confirm a security guard was injured during the incident.2122 As noted under Logistical Sustainment, prior research infers the injured guard was a Churchill Support Services employee; this remains unconfirmed from primary sources.
Armed Forces Covenant and ERS recognition: Churchill Support Services holds a confirmed Armed Forces Covenant Bronze Award, appearing in both the GOV.UK Armed Forces Covenant business register18 and the Ministry of Defence’s November 2025 ERS Bronze Award Holders spreadsheet.19 This affirms a formal alignment with UK Armed Forces employment and welfare commitments.
Lobbying register co-appearance: Prior research identifies Churchill Group as appearing in the Register of Consultant Lobbyists April–June 2022 quarterly return20 alongside Elbit Systems UK. This citation requires direct inspection of the spreadsheet to confirm whether both entities share a consultant lobbyist (implying a common political-commercial interest) or appear as independent unrelated entries within the same public document. The evidentiary significance of this co-appearance remains unresolved without direct document inspection.
Rebranding from Churchill Group to ProFM Group: The March 2025 rebranding14 is noted in civil society tracking contexts: campaign groups, procurement databases, and procurement contract databases may not have updated their records to reflect the ProFM Group trading name, which may affect the completeness of future public scrutiny of the entity’s client relationships.
Palestine Action supply-chain documentation: Palestine Action’s Elbit Systems UK supply-chain pages27 and campaign reports identify a range of service and logistics providers to Elbit’s UK facilities. These materials are a standing civil-society risk indicator for any entity documented as providing services to Elbit Systems UK sites. Churchill Group’s Instro Precision relationship, to the extent supported by Indeed UK recruitment evidence, situates the company within a supply chain that is an active target of this campaign.
No corporate response, policy statement, or contract termination by Churchill Group / ProFM Group specifically addressing civil society pressure regarding its Elbit/Instro Precision relationship has been identified. No public evidence identified.
https://shotover.com/news/article/churchill_navigation_and_shotover_camera_systems_merge_creating_shotover_sy ↩↩↩
https://nps.edu/documents/105302057/106172370/151217_Unmanned+Systems+Sentinel.pdf/5aec6955-1120-4fe8-98e0-59a88b5b7648 ↩↩
https://www.elbitsystems.com/sites/default/files/2025-02/brightnite_2016.pdf ↩↩
https://www.elbitsystems.com/news/elbit-systems-launches-innovative-helicopter-vision-suite-enables-pilots-own-weather ↩↩
https://assets.verticalmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Vertical911-Summer-ALEA-2016-Online-Version.pdf ↩↩
https://archive.org/stream/military-helicopter-handbook-april-2018/Military%20Helicopter%20Handbook%20-%20April%202018_djvu.txt ↩↩↩
https://euro-sd.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/ESD_06_2019_WEB.pdf ↩↩↩
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/s19qwqqsc ↩
https://sourcehere.com/exhibit/2446 ↩
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https://professionalsecurity.co.uk/products/guarding/495707-2/ ↩↩
https://www.fmj.co.uk/category/business-2/page/10/ ↩
https://uk.indeed.com/q-operative-l-margate-ct9-jobs.html ↩↩
https://www.gov.uk/armed-forces-covenant-businesses/churchill-support-services-limited ↩
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6912106e781a655bfd893ee5/20251110_ERS_Bronze_Award_Holders.ods ↩
https://registrarofconsultantlobbyists.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/April-to-June-2022-Lobbying-Return-Clients.xlsx ↩
https://evrimagaci.org/gpt/activists-on-trial-after-violent-bristol-factory-raid-516887 ↩↩↩↩
https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2024-11-23/eight-more-people-charged-following-alleged-ram-raid-at-defence-firm ↩↩↩↩
https://www.declassifieduk.org/why-i-risked-prison-to-shut-elbit-down/ ↩↩↩
https://www.infologue.com/exclusive/infologue-2022-top-65-uk-security-companies-1/ ↩
https://www.markkerrison.com/archive/ ↩
https://www.elbitsystems-uk.com/instro-precision/ ↩
https://www.elbitsystems-uk.com/about/ ↩
https://www.vayuaerospace.in/article/20/Israel%E2%80%99s-defence-industry ↩
