, based in Centennial Colorado, has been awarded a $4,500,000, multiple-year contract to further develop and integrate its Liteye SHIELD C-sUAS payload in the US Army (RCCTO) HEL prototype effort. This second contract continues the work of last year’s award from RCCTO and furthers the SHIELD platform advancements.
The Army, acting as the Executive Agent for C-sUAS remains focused on the elimination of UAS threats. In a May 2021 Senate Armed Services Hearing, SECARMY, Christine Wormuth, said
“The Army needs to be very attentive to challenges like counter UAS for example.…those are absolutely areas that we need to be working on in terms of developing our capabilities and obviously being able to test our capabilities.”
The objective of C-sUAS HEL prototype effort is to develop, integrate, manufacture, and ultimately test a prototype HEL System(s) in an operationally relevant environment. This contract enables the rapid prototyping of a near-production representative, cost-effective HEL System(s), which will be integrated with current military battle management systems. Liteye’s SHIELD payload will provide the detection, tracking, and identification of Group 1 & 2 UAS in a range of combat environments which will utilize the new 3D SPYGLASS Radar developed in Colorado. The HEL “hard kill” capability will be provided by a partner company and integrated with Liteye’s SHIELD payload to be tested and demonstrated during operational test and evaluation.
“This ongoing effort represents Liteye’s focused commitment to development by our team, and again renews our strategic partnership with the US Army dating back to 2016 when we first sent our C-sUAS systems into combat in Iraq,” said Kenneth Geyer, CEO and Co-Founder of Liteye Systems. “Drone warfare is evolving at an incredible pace, both airborne and ground-based, Liteye and our partners work just as fast developing layered capabilities to handle the multidomain threats of today and tomorrow.”
Liteye’s C-sUAS solutions can be layered with multiple effectors and battle management systems to Detect, Track, Identify and Defeat a wide range of malicious small UAS threats facing US forces today. The Liteye services team provides 24/7 reach-back support, training, and system updates to ensure that the systems remain effective against threats that are continuously increasing in complexity.
“On behalf of the Liteye team, we thank the US Army for their continued trust in our systems and our team. We also thank our partners Numerica and Pratt & Miller along with a long list of other external stakeholders who played a part in bringing this contract to fruition,”
said Geyer.
Source: Press Release