Advancing the Sensor-to-Shooter Kill Chain

Advancing the Sensor-to-Shooter Kill Chain: Echodyne at Cross Domain Fires

C-UAS system with EchoShield (courtesy of American Rheinmetall).

Echodyne shaped next-generation warfighting concepts at the U.S. Army's recent Cross Domain Fires Concept Focused Warfighting Experiment (CDF CFWE), an exercise part of a broader Army modernization effort to ensure future forces can operate seamlessly across land, air, sea, space, and cyber domains.

The core mission of the CDF CFWE is to assess emerging capability gaps in future warfighting concepts, test new technologies in realistic operational scenarios and improve speed and effectiveness of targeting, fires, and decision-making cycles across domains.

The exercise emphasized accelerating the sensor-to-shooter kill chain by leveraging multi-domain data to inform precision fires in near real time. During the exercise, Echodyne delivered real-time precise radar data to American Rheinmetall and Camgian Counter-UAS (C-UAS) systems. This enabled the Army to deliver precise effects across multiple domains and accelerate the sensor-to-shooter kill chain.

C-UAS system with EchoShield (courtesy of American Rheinmetall).

Echodyne's long-range, on-the-move (OTM) capable radar, EchoShield, seamlessly integrated with American Rheinmetall's C-UAS capability and performed target detection to cue the fire control system driving faster sensor-to-shooter decision-making cycles.

The EchoShield radar was also featured on a display unit of Thinkom's mobile High Power Microwave (HPM) C-UAS system. With the capacity for full 360 degrees, OTM capability, EchoShield's precise radar data can enable Thinkom's mobile HPM effector to rapidly disrupt incoming UAS electronics, communications, and control systems without kinetic impact. This ensures the Army reduces collateral damage, scales drone defense measures, and provides flexibility to commanders where kinetic options are operationally undesirable.

Thinkom's Mobile HPM Effector with EchoShield (courtesy of Thinkom).

Echodyne radars provide high-precision detection and pointing accuracy across a wide range of kinetic and non-kinetic systems including machine gun, medium caliber cannon, guided and unguided missiles, One Way Attack (OWA) Drones, High Energy Lasers (HEL), and High Power Microwave (HPM) effectors. The radars are low-SWAP and seamlessly support different mission sets and weapon systems ensuring the Army evolves into a highly agile and flexible fighting force across domains.

Throughout the exercise, EchoShield's precise detection and tracking data seamlessly integrated into Camgian's AI-enabled kill chain automation platform Reactor®, which can be deployed as a full-stack C2 system or integrated as individual decision-logic cognitive aids within existing and emerging C2 systems.

Echodyne's AI/ML threat classification system provided critical threat data to optimize the Reactor system by enabling a trusted common operating picture, accelerating engagement prioritization and decision cycles.

Future conflicts are increasingly complex and depend on precise, real-time data, faster decision-cycles, and highly coordinated joint and coalition operations. Echodyne's low-SWAP future ready radars ensure the Army is equipped to operate effectively in increasingly complex, multi-domain environments.

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