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DroneShield has announced its receipt of a follow up order from an undisclosed major US government agency, worth approximately $750,000.
The Sydney-based company has been tasked with delivering multi-mission wearable and on-vehicle counter-UAS devices, supported by AI-enabled threat awareness software, RFAITM.
As part of the deal, DroneShield is expected to regularly update the software in line with changing technology requirements.
The product’s hardware is comprised of DroneShield’s proprietary field-programmable gate array (FPGA) system.
DroneShield US CEO, Matt McCrann, welcomed the new order, which he said further strengthens the company’s partnership with the US defence and national security sectors.
“DroneShield and our government agency partner have collaborated closely for some time now, and we are pleased to continue supporting their operational requirements for protecting against emerging threats,” McCrann said.
“Our adaptable C-UAS solutions, allow users to address the emerging threat posed by unmanned systems, such as drones, while also providing AI-powered, multi-mission capabilities.”
According to McCrann, DroneShield’s offering is built to be a ‘Swiss Army knife’ for applications addressing low-level threats and near-peer adversaries.
“The off-the-shelf availability of the equipment for this project is a direct result of DroneShield’s effort to shorten lead times and deliver quick turn capabilities by securing its supply chain and investing in its on-hand inventory,” McCrann added.
“This reliability across our product lines has helped our government partners place further trust in us as their C-UAS solution provider.”
This latest order comes just weeks after DroneShield confirmed it is “fully compliant” with the US government’s Team Awareness Kit (TAK), securing certification for its sensor and command-and-control platforms, including RfPatrol, RfOne and DroneSentry-X.
The company’s command-and-control platform, DroneSentry-C2, which leverages artificial intelligence, machine learning (AI/ML) and sensor fusion technologies, is also compliant with the TAK communication standard.
The TAK system, which is used by the US Department of Defense (DoD) and other allied forces, is designed to enable operators in the field to receive detailed threat detection information to improve situational awareness in a common format.
This could involve integrating data from multiple sensors and sensor modalities including radar, radio frequency (RF) and electro-optical (EO) and thermal recognition.
Both DroneShield sensors and the C2 system have implemented the Cursor-on-Target (CoT) protocol to send information to TAK and interoperable systems.
[Related: DroneShield platforms achieve compliance with US government standard]
