MPU5 networking devices on unmanned surface vehicles (USVs)
enable real-time sensor data streaming for expeditionary
warfare.
NEW
YORK, July 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/
-- Persistent Systems, LLC ("Persistent"), a leader in mobile
ad hoc network (MANET) technology, announced today that the U.S.
Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific awarded the company
a $1.3 million contract to supply the
U.S. Navy with MPU5 networking devices and Integrated Sector
Antennas in support of expeditionary/littoral warfare
operations.
The sector antennas and MPU5s will establish a secure network
among unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), individual operators,
ships, and ground control stations (GCSs). This network will
consolidate data to enhance situational awareness and expedite
operations in littoral domains through a unified communications and
command center.
"By integrating unmanned systems with our wireless Wave Relay®
MANET technology, the U.S. Navy obtains real-time data, including
radar, sonar, Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear and
Explosive (CBRNe) information, in any littoral theater to get their
users to shore safely and maintain shipboard situational awareness
in an area of operations (AO)," said Ed
Leopold, Director of Business Development, U.S. Navy., for
Persistent Systems.
Leopold noted, "wireless real-time data collection via the MPU5s
is a dramatic improvement over current procedures, which require
operators to manually recover a USV containing critical Area of
Responsibility (AoR) data on an SD card, which they must then
remove and insert into a designated computer to analyze the
data."
According to company officials, the U.S. Navy has been testing
Persistent's MANET technology in support of expeditionary warfare
and other CONOPS for almost five years. However, this recent
contract is the service's largest USV-centric MANET purchase to
date.
"Our Wave Relay® MANET technology is currently employed on
Navy USVs, rigid inflatable boats (RIBs), patrol boats, and other
ships. Moving forward, testing will scale up with a larger number
of MANET nodes within Line of Sight (LOS) and Beyond LOS (BLOS),"
said Leopold.
This is the second contract with NIWC Pacific, Persistent
Systems has been awarded. Earlier this year, the company announced
it had been awarded a $3.6 million
contract to integrate MPU5s with Navy sensors.
"The Navy has been showing a high level of confidence in our
solutions, which has allowed us to get in on the ground floor with
USVs as the technology develops," added Leopold.
About Persistent Systems, LLC
Headquartered in New York City
since 2007, Persistent Systems, LLC is a global communications
technology company that develops and manufactures a patented and
secure Mobile Ad hoc Networking (MANET) system: Wave Relay®. Wave
Relay® transmits and receives data, video, voice, and other
applications under the most difficult conditions. Their suite of
products is utilized in Commercial, Military, Government,
Industrial, Robotics, and Unmanned Systems markets.
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