Electronic countermeasures (ECM) are ever-expanding and changing and must be resilient to keep pace with an adversary’s moves. To provide such capabilities to its mobile ad hoc networking (MANET) technology, Persistent Systems, LLC designed firmware upgrades to its full lines of MANET radios and other systems with flexible resiliency.
The company’s proprietary Wave Relay Resilience and Defense capability is enabled by an always-on library of firmware-based countermeasures solutions. Therefore, even in handheld communications devices and embedded modules (see figure), users can instantly adapt to changing countermeasures requirements, achieving maximum throughput in the most difficult operating environments.
Eric Stern, executive vice president of hardware and software engineering and executive vice president of production operations at Persistent Systems, LLC, said, “Each firmware update that we issue is free to customers and comes with an updated library of electronic protections.” He added, “It’s just another example of how Persistent is pushing at the edge of the possible to deliver a robust, dependable, and highly scalable MANET for the modern battlefield.”
Persistent Systems, LLC has been a strong supporter of reducing size, weight, and power (SWaP) in modern electronic systems through its innovative hardware and firmware developments. For example, its Wave Relay radio modules are complete multiband radio systems in compact housings that can be added where needed, such as in unmanned systems like unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs). A single module can replace multiple older, larger subsystems in EW, ECM, and secure communications systems, resulting in more efficient operation, less power consumption, and lower operating costs.