Metamaterial Radar May Improve Car and Drone Vision
April 8, 2015
Powerful radar, mostly limited to the military, could soon be cheap enough for cars and consumer drones to use. Plenty of people play with small drone aircraft in their backyards these days. Tom Driscoll, cofounder and chief technology officer of a startup called Echodyne may be the only one whose
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DHS S&T Snapshot
February 5, 2019
In addition to this testing, Echodyne’s solution is currently being used as the primary detection and cueing component on autonomous surveillance towers currently deployed in the San Diego Sector .
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Echodyne’s EchoFlight Radar Receives Commodity Jurisdiction Determination
January 30, 2019
Echodyne announced today that it has received a commodity jurisdiction (CJ) determination from the US State Department for its EchoFlight radar. The CJ determination classifies the EchoFlight radar as a commercial product exportable under the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR)
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Echodyne Radar Selected for Northern Plains’ UTM Pilot Program Testing
January 17, 2019
Echodyne announced today that it has been selected to participate in Northern Plains UAS Test Site (NPUASTS) industry partnership to test and demonstrate commercial UAS operations in the next phase of DOT/FAA UAS Pilot Program (UPP) testing. Echodyne’s MESA™ radar technology enables an Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management (UTM) system to detect and track commercial drones and manned aircraft, enabling safe operations in the national airspace.
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Echodyne adds new CFO
November 2, 2018
Echodyne, the manufacturer of innovative, high-performance radars for securing critical infrastructure, counter-UAS, and guiding autonomous machines announced today that it has added Paul Farmer to its management team as Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
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Smart Cities Have New Physical Threats: The Impact of Drones on Security and Public Safety
October 19, 2018
Physical security and cybersecurity are different sides of the same security coin. As the cities of tomorrow emerge with more complex networks and connected and autonomous technologies of all kinds, city planners must consider physical security as an integral component of smart city security.
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Homeland Security got a thing and it’s called radar love
October 5, 2018
“Cost, size, weight and power (C-SWaP) is always a concern when deciding on technology investments,” said Tim Bennett of DHS Science and Technology in a release. “Legacy radar arrays require an expensive, complex and often heavy phase shifter to direct radar beams. Echodyne developed MESA to electronically steer a radar beam with high fidelity and fast directional changes with lower C-SWaP.”
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