Voyager Technologies received a contract from the US Air Force Research Laboratory (Affl) for the amount 21 million dollars to develop signal processing tools using artificial intelligence. The work is focused on software and computational methods, which are capable of interpreting raw intelligence, Observation and reconnaissance (ISR), collected by sensors. Цифрова обробка сигналів є ключовим елементом сучасних мереж ISR. Вона дозволяє силам просіювати величезні обсяги радарних відбиттів, зображень та електронних випромінювань, identify threats and receive operational conclusions.
President of the space division, defense and national security company Voyager said, that they create flexible surveillance solutions, готові до використання на платформах наземного, повітряного, надводного, космічного та кіберпростору. Контракт присвячений саме сигнальній розвідці (SIGINT) для платформ Повітряних сил США.
AFRL invests in technology, which move most of the processing to the "edge" (edge computing) – that is, calculations are performed directly on board the satellite, aircraft or other deployed system, rather than at a remote ground station. Processing data "in place" reduces delays, which is one of the priorities of Pentagon planners, who are preparing for fleeting conflicts, де канали зв’язку можуть бути порушені або придушені.
Компанія Voyager розширила свою діяльність із комерційного космосу в оборонну сферу завдяки низці придбань і стратегічних інвестицій. These capabilities testify to Voyager's ambition to create architecture, in which raw sensor data is signal intelligence (SIGINT) - can be processed, can be classified and responded to directly on the spot, without having to transmit everything back to ground nodes. Such approaches are of great interest to the US Department of Defense, which seeks to create more resilient and distributed architectures for intelligence gathering and dissemination.
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