On November 5, El Segundo, CA-based Pacific Defense announced the acquisition of Spear Research, a Nashua, NH-based technology company focused on Electronic Warfare, Signals Intelligence, and autonomous networked sensor systems.
Spear Research brings an experienced and innovative team of engineers with core competencies in RF engineering, advanced signal processing, autonomous command and control, and system integration. The Pacific Defense platform, including Spectranetix and Perceptronics, brings rapid adoption of best of breed capabilities into AI/ML enabled high-performance Radio Frequency based systems, and Spear is a key enabler to delivering full scale, low risk solutions to the DoD and select international customers.
The addition of Spear Research to the team also furthers Pacific Defense’s leadership role in the defense industry for advanced military open systems architecture Standards including the Army’s C4ISR Modular Open Suite of Standards (CMOSS), and the Air Force’s Sensor Open Systems Architecture (SOSA) specifications. Spear’s expertise in real-time digital signal processing will augment our CMOSS/SOSA systems with SIGINT/ELINT customer applications.
Travis Slocumb, CEO of Pacific Defense said, “Delivered system performance is critical for end-user adoption of our technologies. Spear’s expertise will help us ensure that our customers can port their applications and rapidly get the capabilities and performance they need to pace the growing and complex threat environment.”
Michael Sangillo, general manager of Spear Research said, “We are excited to be a part of Pacific Defense and look forward to working with the team to deliver enhanced capabilities to our customers.”
Source: Pacific Defense
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