Sanswire Networks

Sanswire's Homeland Security Capabilities

Homeland Security has a broad range of missions that cut across various agencies. Most if not all of these agency missions have common requirements that can be effectively met through the utilization of a High Altitude Airship platform, whether it is communications, surveillance, reconnaissance or target acquisition and engagement.

Our Stratellites™ can can be tailored to specific customer requirements and missions to perform a wide variety of important homeland security missions. Capabilities include the ability to monitor situations with cutting edge sensors and mapping solutions and the ability to communicate this vital information to response vehicles and personnel on the ground. Due to the enormous 125,000 sq. mile range of our Stratellites™, we can provide mid-distance and near-shore Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) including vessel tracking and cargo container surveillance; littoral (shore-proximate) surveillance for ports, waterways, coastal trails, and urban environments; ancillary border surveillance activity; and short-range optical/electronic surveillance including ground moving target indication (GMTI) radar for interdiction of narco-, smuggling, and immigration challenges; and much more. Stratellites™ can also inherently serve as communications/data relays from airborne and sea-borne sensor platforms to other ground or air vehicles and can also provide satellite-linked local, continental, or global nets for command and control center coordination during threat interdiction or emergency response operations.

The Stratellite™ High Altitude Airship platform can host a common set of hardware that can be used to meet Multi-Agency requirements. We can also provide a platform for interoperability for wide area communications to replace and enhance legacy systems. The platform can also carry agency specific sensor suites for mission unique requirements such as radar, electro-optical sensors, DF and Intercept sensor suites.

The Stratellite™ can also be a platform for a number of integrated capabilities for the tactical battlefield scenario. C4/C2I Implementations include sensor relays, intensive and persistent battlefield surveillance, tri-service cooperative target engagement, and ballistic and cruise missile defense. The need for intelligence gathering and target acquisition through reconnaissance and surveillance has been a military requirement since the inception of warfare. This requirement has been primarily met, in the last century, through the employment of fixed and rotary wing aircraft carrying a variety of sensor payloads that span the optical and RF spectra.

While this was a fairly efficient collection method when dealing with the location and targeting of generally large military formations of the Cold War era, the emergence of the asymmetric threat that consists of small numbers of fleeting targets and disparate events, that could occur across the globe, has created new requirements for both the Military and Homeland Security Environments. To meet this new threat, persistent surveillance (24x7) will be required, along with other innovative data collection, correlation, fusion, and dissemination capabilities. The use, of fixed and rotary wing platforms for this mission is not cost effective in terms of equipment and manpower. Satellites have been used for similar missions; however, they cannot fulfill the complete requirement, due to payload limitations and coverage, and their inability to easily make rapid changes based on a constantly evolving threat.

Sanswire platforms will be used to test communication links to ground receivers within its footprint and allow Sanswire to also test relay signals to other airborne platforms, ground stations, and satellites. One key advantage over satellites is that the close-in operating altitude of the Stratellite platform means that less power will be required to transmit information from airships to end users on the ground. In addition, we will be able to demonstrate superior airborne communication capabilities to government and commercial customers and test our platform at the most extreme wind speeds and demonstrate our negligible latency compared to the 0.25 second delay for signals traversing a 45,000 mile ground-to-geosynchronous satellite round trip.

Integrated Data Collection with Central Data Analysis

Field analysis of sensor data will be expedited by our partner's expert teams for accuracy. Displayed on GIS maps, data becomes visualized for rapid assessment and decision-making by appropriate authorities. Based on this expert analysis, life saving and public health related decisions can be made with speed.