Heading to AUSA? Join TenCate Protective Fabrics for Happy Hour at their booth (#2611) beginning at 3pm on Monday, October 10th for an afternoon of good drinks and great friends. During that time, TenCate Protective Fabrics will be giving out Free Anchor Lite™ T-Shirts (Booth #2611 *while supplies last).
Checkout TenCate Protective Fabrics at booth #2611 to see their full lineup of innovative fabrics designed to keep you comfortable and protected in the field and on the job.
Solution offers seamless, bidirectional, air-ground video connection without cumbersome receivers
Persistent Systems, LLC (“Persistent”), a leader in mobile ad hoc networking (MANET) technology, will demonstrate for the first time its Cloud Relay™-powered Next-Generation ISR concept at the Association of the United States Army’s (AUSA) 2022 Annual Meeting and Exposition, held October 10-12, in Washington, D.C.
Leveraging Persistent’s Cloud Relay™ solution, which extends the company’s powerful Wave Relay® mobile ad hoc network to beyond line of sight (4G/LTE, SATCOM, or standard Internet), Next-Generation ISR offers warfighters a seamless, persistent, bidirectional air-ground video connectivity that greatly speeds up the tempo of operations.
“Currently, troops on the ground are passive recipients of airborne video,” says Christopher Knapp, Director of Business Development at Persistent Systems. “They rely on cumbersome receiver hardware to get video, and even then, the operator with the gear has to be out in the open to watch the feed. All this slows downs operations.”
But with Next-Generation ISR, Persistent has reimagined air-ground video transmission for the networked battlefield.
Now video can be instantly accessible to warfighters, whether they are operating near an aircraft—or at an operations center half-way around the world. Next-Generation ISR also reduces the cognitive load on the soldier and makes mission-critical information available to the entire team.
“When we click on a video on our smartphones, it immediately starts playing. We don’t think about whether we are on Wi-Fi or 5G. With Next-Generation ISR, soldiers can now realize this same convenience on the battlefield,” said Knapp.
By utilizing the Wave Relay® and Cloud Relay™ networks for video transmission, Next-Generation ISR eliminates the need for special receiver equipment. Now a soldier’s MPU5 networking radio is enough. This change both reduces weight and increases capability. Indeed, dismounted users can also talk directly with the sensor operator and control the camera on the aircraft.
“In building this capability, we’ve collaborated with aircraft camera manufacturers to ensure that the dismounted warfighter can control their cameras,” Knapp said. “We’ve also collaborated with the TAK Product Center to ensure that the feeds and camera control information is auto-discovered in TAK. This is really an industry-wide initiative.”
Persistent Systems will be demonstrating its Next-Generation ISR capability during the upcoming AUSA Annual Meeting and Exposition, at the company’s exhibitor booth (#4552), at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, in Washington, D.C. Visitors will get to see how a user of Persistent’s Wave Relay®-powered MANET with Cloud Relay™ can receive video and control cameras from anywhere in the world.
For more information about Persistent’s solutions, visit our website: www.persistentsystems.com.
DroneShield is pleased to advise that it has received an $1.8 million contract for its DroneGun MKIII handheld counterdrone system from the United States Department of Defense (DoD).
Delivery will be completed this month, with full payment due to be received in the current quarter.
This follows a previous down selection of DroneGun MKIII for evaluation by the DoD’s Joint Counter-small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Office (JCO).
“It’s an honor to provide our DoD customers with advanced cUAS solutions to help address complex security requirements,” said Tom Branstetter, DroneShield’s Virginia-based Director of Business Development. “DroneShield is committed to delivering critical Force Protection technology that enables security personnel to rapidly respond to this growing threat,” Branstetter added.
Matt McCrann, U.S. CEO of DroneShield added, “As the threat of UAS continues to seemingly adapt in real-time, countermeasures need to be both effective and flexible.”
“DroneGun MKIII is that lightweight, flexible countermeasure that can go anywhere and serve as the ideal gap fill capability to protect personnel and assets wherever they might need to operate. We look forward to continuing to support our DoD end users wherever, whenever needed.”
This contract is the largest US sale by DroneShield to date, and follows several recently announced contracts by DroneShield, including the $2 million European sale of DroneSentry fixed site systems and the initial US airport deployment. The Company is also progressing active discussions on sales to Ukraine, following the initial deployment at the start of the war earlier this year.
Using recycled materials has become a major goal of outdoor brands and LaSportiva boasts that the TX MID is 65% recycled materials by weight.
Attributes:
• Bluesign® certified Gore-Tex® lining
• Vibram® Ecostep EVO outsole with 30% recycled content
• Lightweight and durable recycled AirMesh upper
• Recycled laces and nylon webbing
• 15% recycled EVA midsole
Offered in Men’s and Women’s versions, sizes 6-15.5.
www.sportiva.com/tx-hike-mid-gtx
The Tripod Stalker Pack from Tracer Tactical is adjustable for large and small tripods thanks to an expandable bottom. It features a Tegris frame with removable internal pad and internal anchoring slots for OneWrap tie downs. The strap is adjustable and can be moved to the left or right.
*Pre-Order item. Allow up to 3-4 weeks for construction. Tripod, Scout Pouch, and flag patch not included.
This is the second installment of a multi-week effort to share examples of posters which were presented during the recent Future Force Capabilities Conference presented by the National Defense Industrial Association in Austin, Texas. I’ll let them speak for themselves.
As always, contact info is on the poster for those interested.
The CRABS V2 System is designed to be a modular and scalable placard/chest rig system working seamlessly with the ammo/EO & admin inserts suite, which offers nearly endless configurations, allowing multiple setups depending on mission requirements.
The Base Panel placard is the bones of the system, featuring internal soft loop Velcro to insert 5.56mm x 3, 7.62 x 2 w/ pistol or 9mm x 4 elastic magazine inserts. The front features loop Velcro to attach the optional Pocket Panels. Even better, all of the components have NSNs.
Offered in a variety of colors. Coming soon.
The Squad Support Weapon SSW40 from Rheinmetall is on display in the NIOA booth along with their full line of 40mm ammunition.
Under development, the SSW40 is a magazine-fed, semi-automatic 40mm launcher Designed to engage targets out to 800m. Weighing under 4.0kg, the SSW40 has a 10 round capacity.
