Mission Matters Podcast Distributed Spectrum: Building the Future of AI and Electronic Warfare
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Mar 20, 2025 Alex Wulff, CEO using ML and commodity RF hardware for real-time RF awareness; Isaac Struhl, CTO focused on signal processing and edge ML; Ben Harpe, COO handling product and field deployments. They explore modern electronic warfare, why distributed RF sensing matters, building ML without public RF datasets, edge constraints and benchmarking, integrating with legacy systems, and real-world customer validation.
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Scale Shift In Electronic Warfare
- Electronic warfare now matters because almost everything communicates wirelessly and creates exploitable signatures.
- Modern battlefields need many low-cost, distributed sensors instead of a few expensive platforms.
First Live Demonstration That Converted Users
- In a mission exercise Distributed Spectrum deployed inexpensive sensors without prior spectrum knowledge and showed real-time alerts.
- Operators reacted with surprise, realizing low-cost gear could provide near-real-time situational awareness.
Power Of Unclassified Solutions
- Operating unclassified systems unlocks large value by filtering noise and delivering flexible, rapid alerts.
- Unclassified deployments ease partnership with allied forces and reduce risk from unattended sensors.