Anduril Industries on Monday unveiled details of its modular, artificial intelligence-enabled Pulsar electronic warfare (EW) system, designed to defeat threats including drones, that it says has already been deployed by U.S. military customers.
The company described Pulsar as a “multi-mission-capable” EW system “that utilizes artificial intelligence at the tactical edge to rapidly identify and defeat current and future threats across the electromagnetic spectrum.”
“We developed Pulsar in 2020 and variants of the system have been operationally deployed for years across multiple areas of responsibility and continents. We have U.S. military customers, but we cannot share additional details,” an Anduril spokesperson told Defense Daily.
Anduril said Pulsar is designed to support a range of mission objectives to include electronic countermeasures, defeating drones, providing electronic support and electronic attack, offering direction finding, geolocation and “other advanced EW capabilities.”
The system integrates a software-defined radio, graphics processing unit “and additional diverse compute” capability, Anduril noted, to enable the use of “radio frequency (RF) machine learning” to rapidly identify changing threats on the battlefield.
“Pulsar is a system that is fundamentally unique and superior to all other tactical EW systems currently available. It provides the capability to intelligently and autonomously interrogate a wider range of the electromagnetic spectrum, both for known threats and anomalous events, while reducing the time to deploy new EF effects to a matter of hours and days,” Anduril said in a statement.
Anduril said Pulsar’s modular form factor allows it to be integrated onto ground vehicles or aircraft.
“Built to survive and win in highly-congested and contested electromagnetic environments, Pulsar enables warfighters to counter state and non-state actors employing EW capabilities integrated with other advanced technological systems operating across the electromagnetic spectrum and cyberspace domain,” Sam El-Akkad, Anduril’s general manager for RF and EW systems, said in a statement.
Anduril added Pulsar’s open architecture allows the system to integrate with existing, joint EW and command and control systems “providing more comprehensive coverage and coordinated effects across distributed operations.”
“It also provides a software development kit that enables continuous development and integrations with third-party providers and rapid integration of best-of-breed capabilities in order to keep pace with new threats and missions,” Anduril said.